North Tower - Schloss Drachenburg

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Guest Bedroom (North Tower) “From the balcony and oriel of the room – which, thanks to its elevated position, is the room in the castle with the best vantage point – one has an incomparably good view of the entire Rhine and mountain panorama.” Drachenfels and Schloss Drachenburg near Königswinter on the Rhine, undated, c. 1904 Situated in the North Tower of Schloss Drachenburg, the present Wedding Chamber used to be a guest bedroom. Refl ecting tastes of the late 19th century, the room was furnished in a neo-Gothic style. A postcard dating from 1905, for example, shows a monumental four-poster bed with rich intricate carvings, a prayer kneeler, a medieval-type chandelier and a linen chest. A brochure published in 1904 also reports of a “splendid bedroom placed not without reason above the Tavern Room”… “The Bonn fi rm of J. Vershoven clearly knew how to satisfy the highest demands, namely, by means of installing inordinately tasteful and comfortable furnishings to match the stark Gothic style of the castle. For its part, the antique oil painting above the prayer kneeler in the corner of the room depicted the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven and was the work of an unknown master of the older Italian school”. But even though the inventory catalogues of 1910 and 1930 still spoke of the “richly carved bedroom” and listed the original items of furniture, the once romantic North Tower room was transformed into a classroom during the time the castle housed St Michael’s Catholic Boys Boarding School in the 1930s. And in the years after 1941, at the time of the Adolf-Hitler- Schule, the room was used as the headmaster’s offi ce. By the 1980s, furnished with a neo-baroque four-poster bed, commode and seats, the room was again to fulfi l its original purpose as a bedroom or, to be more precise, as the “representative” chamber and boudoir of Erina von Sachsen, the wife of Paul Spinat. Even today, you can still see Spinat’s initials painted on the white-and-gold-painted door and the ceiling artwork of The Education of Cupid by Venus and Mercury … with Paul portrayed as Mercury and Erina as Venus! The room now serves as a romantic Wedding Chamber high above the River Rhine and thus picks up on the symbolism of Venus the goddess of love and the young Cupid (Amor). For more information about civil wedding ceremonies at Schloss Drachenburg, please call +49 2223 90197-75.
Guest Bedroom, postcard 1905 (Archiv Schloss Drachenburg gGmbH) Ceiling fresco by Peter Tutzauer The Education of Cupid by Venus and Mercury – free interpretation of a painting by François Boucher 35
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Schloss Drachenburg Visitors’ Gui
Page 3 and 4: Intro Dear Visitor, It is a great p
Page 5 and 6: Architectural Decoration The design
Page 7 and 8: Venus Terrace The Venus Terrace pla
Page 9 and 10: „Save the Petersberg!“ The Pete
Page 11 and 12: The Icon of Rhine Romanticism: the
Page 13 and 14: Nordic Summer Houses The second own
Page 15 and 16: Wotan Summer House After Jacob Hube
Page 17 and 18: Sea of Rocks Geologically speaking,
Page 19 and 20: Roland‘s Arch, Rhine Romanticism
Page 21 and 22: Nature Conversationists and the Dra
Page 23 and 24: A view from the east into the Main
Page 25 and 26: Joseph Flüggen: Sleeping Beauty Po
Page 27 and 28: Looking into the Hunting Trophy and
Page 29 and 30: Lacunae in the Main Staircase paint
Page 31 and 32: Reception Room, postcard 1905 (Arch
Page 33 and 34: For further information about the C
Page 35 and 36: Dining Room, postcard 1905 (Archiv
Page 37 and 38: Nibelung Room with a view through t
Page 39 and 40: West side of the Art Gallery with b
Page 41 and 42: Uhland window with lacunae Found 20
Page 43 and 44: Looking into the Tavern Room with t
Page 45 and 46: Hunt & Billiard Room, postcard 1905
Page 47 and 48: Library and Study Postcard 1903 (Ar
Page 49 and 50: Music Room, postcard 1905 - showing
Page 51 and 52: Layout of the Private Floor Porcela
Page 53: Preserved glass painting entitled Y
Page 57: Reconstructed stencils in the south
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