Bavarian Baroque II: Landshut
Oct. 18th, 2021 10:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakThe other spectacularly pretty city I came through in recent weeks was Landshut. Actually only about an hour's drive away from Munich, but somehow I'd never been there before. Hosts one of the country's most famous ren fairs, the "Landshut Wedding", every four years, a restaging of the spectacular wedding of a Bavarian duke with a Polish Princess, and certainly hardly needs any backstage decoarations for it, for:
Let's have some city silhouette profile pics featuring the castle, Burg Trausnitz:
As you can see by the facades of the houses, this is one colorful city, well preserved:
Landshut citizens didn't believe in living small, no:
The green building with the Covid test station in front is the city hall:
Trausnitz Castle from several sides:
This grass ground, named "Swedes' grass ground" as a reminder of the Swedish occupation during the 30 Years War, hosts an old pear tree. When I say "old" I mean only a measly 150 years, so not reaching back to the 30 Years War, but it's planted to where one stood then, too:
The keep:
The courtyard inside the keep:
Alas there was a terrible fire in the 1970s destroying many of the castle's interiors, but some have been restored, like this room:
Also, stoves everywhere. Lady Mary Wortley Montague had a lot of critical things to say when passing through Germany en route to Turkey, but one thing she loved and admired were all the stoves, which apparantly were way more modern than anything Britain had to offer in the 18th century.
The wooden panels are post restoration, but that's how the room used to look, too:
The lady on the portrait is the bride from the Landsut Wedding they keep restaging:
And then you have restored rokoko ceilings like this:
Or with baroque frescoes:
The blue and white insignia the putti are holding are the Bavarian colors:
The "fools' stairs" aren't thus named for being used by court jesters but because the then Duke ran short of cash, had to dismiss his Italian Comedian ensemble, but evidently still had enough money to commission an artist to paint Comedia dell' Arte scenes on the walls of one of his stairways. These are according to the castle guide the first depictions of Comedia dell'Arte types in paintings, from the 17th century.
Said stairways leads to the castle chapel, dedicated to St. George, and a wild mixture between the Gothic and the Baroque.
This apostle is an eager reader:
What slays me is that the dukes had their very own warm, stove-heated box to sit in within the chapel. Behold:
Let's go outside again. This is the Friday morning farmers' market:
Landshut says farewell with first an overview from the castle:
and then from its lovely waterfront (the river in question is the Isar, which also runs through Munich):
Let's have some city silhouette profile pics featuring the castle, Burg Trausnitz:
As you can see by the facades of the houses, this is one colorful city, well preserved:
Landshut citizens didn't believe in living small, no:
The green building with the Covid test station in front is the city hall:
Trausnitz Castle from several sides:
This grass ground, named "Swedes' grass ground" as a reminder of the Swedish occupation during the 30 Years War, hosts an old pear tree. When I say "old" I mean only a measly 150 years, so not reaching back to the 30 Years War, but it's planted to where one stood then, too:
The keep:
The courtyard inside the keep:
Alas there was a terrible fire in the 1970s destroying many of the castle's interiors, but some have been restored, like this room:
Also, stoves everywhere. Lady Mary Wortley Montague had a lot of critical things to say when passing through Germany en route to Turkey, but one thing she loved and admired were all the stoves, which apparantly were way more modern than anything Britain had to offer in the 18th century.
The wooden panels are post restoration, but that's how the room used to look, too:
The lady on the portrait is the bride from the Landsut Wedding they keep restaging:
And then you have restored rokoko ceilings like this:
Or with baroque frescoes:
The blue and white insignia the putti are holding are the Bavarian colors:
The "fools' stairs" aren't thus named for being used by court jesters but because the then Duke ran short of cash, had to dismiss his Italian Comedian ensemble, but evidently still had enough money to commission an artist to paint Comedia dell' Arte scenes on the walls of one of his stairways. These are according to the castle guide the first depictions of Comedia dell'Arte types in paintings, from the 17th century.
Said stairways leads to the castle chapel, dedicated to St. George, and a wild mixture between the Gothic and the Baroque.
This apostle is an eager reader:
What slays me is that the dukes had their very own warm, stove-heated box to sit in within the chapel. Behold:
Let's go outside again. This is the Friday morning farmers' market:
Landshut says farewell with first an overview from the castle:
and then from its lovely waterfront (the river in question is the Isar, which also runs through Munich):
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Date: 2021-10-18 08:39 am (UTC)A proper Kachelofen is a thing of wonder.
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Date: 2021-10-18 03:22 pm (UTC)I hadn't known anything about Landshut earlier, either, other than the Landshut Wedding takes place there; as I said, for some reason I never visited before, even though it's not that far from where I live.
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Date: 2021-10-25 03:59 am (UTC)As usual I am a big fan of the ceilings, and thank you for all the shots of them :D I think my favorite is the castle chapel. That is sure wild. (And that cozy stove-heated box! Must be nice to be a Duke :) )
I also think it's hilarious that the Duke was apparently like, "hmm, what's cheaper than a live Italian Comedian ensemble! I know! Paintings of them! That'll be kind of like a cut-rate version of the real thing, right?"