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1.<br />

10<br />

1. Identification of the Property<br />

TEMPLE OF APOLLO<br />

Prof. Dr. Michael Hesse<br />

„… among the most original architectural creations at Schwetzingen is the Apollo precinct with<br />

the temple (from 1765/66) which belongs to two different spheres. From the terraced basement<br />

facing the canal in the west the visitor must accomplish a quasi-ritualistic ascent through dark<br />

tunnels lined with rough stone – as it were, through the sphere of the narrow, obscure, unfinished –<br />

towards the sunlit upper platform with its ideal, Classical monopteros sheltering the god of order,<br />

clarity and reason. At the same time and viewed from the other side, that is to say from the green<br />

theatre, the temple surmounts the stage. Here Apollo is the god of the arts, leader of the muses<br />

on Mount Helicon, where the hoof of Pegasus had called forth the well of Hippocrene. Its sacred<br />

waters are represented at Schwetzingen by a small waterfall offered to humanity by two naiads.

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