Neustrelitz

Neustrelitz is a town of Germany Northern , located in Mecklembourg-Strelitz, (today Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Western).

History

The village of Neustrelitz was mentioned for the first time in 1278. Neustrelitz became little by little a small town. At the 17th century, Strelitz belonged to the duchy of Mecklembourg-Güstrow, principality who ceased existing at the time of the death of his last duke in 1695. In 1701, the duchy of Mecklembourg-Strelitz was established by the attestation of inheritance of Hamburg. This small duchy included/understood the current territory and an enclave around Ratzebourg, which, nowadays is located at the the Schleswig-Holstein.

In 1712, the castle and the bottom of the town of Neustrelitz were devastated by a fire. After this disaster, the duke Adolphe-Frederic III of Mecklembourg-Strelitz and his family were constrained to reside in a hunting lodge built at the edge of the lake Zierker (in the North-West of Strelitz). Autrour of this place, the new town of Neustrelitz was born. In 1736, it became the governmental capital of the duchy of Mecklembourg-Strelitz.

Neustrelitz remained the residence of the dukes and large-dukes until in 1918 and was the capital of the free State of Mecklembourg-Strelitz (Weimar Republic) of 1918 with 1933. In 1934, the two duchies of Mecklembourg (Schwerin and Strelitz) amalgamated. The old city of Neustrelitz contina its existence after the fire of 1712.

Monuments and tourism

The center of the town of Neustrelitz is characterized by a style baroque. One discovers there the place of the Market ( Markplatz ), the church built between 1768 and 1778, the Town hall ( Rathaus ) built in 1841.

The castle of style baroque was destroyed in 1945, but the gardens of the palate remain. To visit the Orangery of the 18th century, the vault of the castle built between 1855 and 1859 in an English neo-gothic style, the neo-classic temple of Hébé (with a reproduction of the statue of the goddess Hébé), the temple of Louise, Greek style, built in 1891 to deposit in its tomb the body of the Louise queen of Prussia (born Louise de Mecklembourg-Strelitz).

Internal bonds

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