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ANSBACH, 50km southwest of Nürnberg and less than a tenth of the size, is nevertheless the capital of the province of Middle Franconia. With only a relatively short interregnum, it has had capital status ever since 1331, when it became the seat of the first principality established by the Hohenzollerns. For most of its history, this was known as the Margravate of Brandenburg-Ansbach, though it was never the frontier district its name would suggest: the title was transferred from the dynasty's subsequent power base of Brandenburg after the latter was promoted to the rank of an Electorate of the Holy Roman Empire. The town wears a grand air which is quite disproportionate to its small size, and is well endowed with handsome buildings from a variety of architectural periods. It has also gone down in the annals of German history as the site of the unsolved murder of Kaspar Hauser, the notorious foundling.
The Town
The dominant building is the huge Residenzschloss (guided tours April-Sept Tues-Sun 9am-6pm; Oct-March Tues-Sun 10am-4pm; DM6/?3) at the southeastern edge of the Altstadt. It was originally a moated castle, and a Gothic hall which survives from this contains the ticket office and a collection of locally made porcelain. In its present form, the complex dates almost entirely from a rebuilding undertaken between the late seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries. Initially, the work was carried out in a classicizing form of Baroque by the Italian Gabriel de Gabrieli, and the most striking feature of this is the inner courtyard , with its three tiers of open arcades. The last phase of construction was entrusted to the Rococo architect and interior designer Leopold Retti, who was responsible for the magnificent suite of 27 chambers on the first floor. With a single exception, these preserve their original decoration absolutely intact: the abdication of the last margrave in 1791 spelt an end to the building's function as a residential palace, and thus it was never modernized. The only room in the grand manner is the Festsaal, which has elaborate stuccowork and a ceiling fresco by Carlo Carlone glorifying the wise government of the patron, Margrave Carl Wilhelm Friedrich. All the other chambers are intimate in scale, and are grouped into three separate groups of apartments - for the margrave, the margravine and guests. Each has one highly idiosyncratic room: respectively these are the Marmorkabinett (Marble Cabinet), the Spiegelkabinett (Cabinet of Mirrors) and the Gekachelter Saal (Tiled Room), which is covered with 2800 delicately, designed tiles made in the local factory.
Right in the heart of the Altstadt is the church of St Gumbertus. Originally it was part of a Romanesque collegiate foundation, but the only survivor from that period is the crypt (Fri-Sun 11am-noon & 3-5pm), which later served as the pantheon of the local margraves. Directly above is the Gothic chancel, which was converted to serve as the Schwannenritterordenkapelle, and shelters the elaborate epitaphs and death shields of members of the Order of the Swan, a lay foundation of Margrave Albrecht Achilles. The nave was remodeled in the eighteenth century into a vast preaching hall according to the restrained Lutheran tastes of the day. It's a classic among German Protestant churches - all slate grey and cream, without paintings or side altars; it presents a cool clarity, in which the focus is placed firmly on the small marble altar and the pulpit above.
To the rear of St Gumbertus is the Beringershof, a sixteenth-century mansion with a beautiful galleried courtyard, complete with a stair tower. On the west side of the church lays the sixteenth-century Stadthaus, the seat of the mayor and town council. Beyond is the main square, Martin-Luther-Platz, which is dominated by St Johannis, a large Gothic hall church built for parish use and containing an altar by the Nürnberg sculptor Peter Flötner. Just to the north, down Schaitbergerstrasse, is the Markgrafenmuseum (Tues-Sun 10am-noon & 2-5pm; DM2/?1). One part of this is devoted to the history of the margravate; the other, on the opposite side of the road, documents the life and times of Kaspar Hauser in a comprehensive fashion, though you'll need to have some German to get the most from the display. The exhibits include the bloodstained coat he was wearing when he was murdered, and it was a DNA sample taken from this which finally lay to rest the theory that he was an unwanted member of Baden's grand ducal family.
At the far southern end of the Altstadt is the Herrieder Tor, a medieval gateway refashioned in the Baroque period. On Rosenbadstrasse, a short distance to the northwest is the Synagoge, which was built by Leopold Retti in the 1740s. It deserves to be considered as one of the most beautiful surviving Jewish temples in Germany, but its interior can unfortunately only be seen on guided tours of the town: these are held at 11am every Sunday between May and September and depart from Anscavallo, an avant-garde statue of a horse directly opposite the Residenzschloss.
Just to the southeast of the Altstadt is Karlsplatz, a monumental square planned in the late seventeenth century as the focal point of a Huguenot suburb. It was only completed in 1840, ironically enough with the building of the Neoclassical Ludwigskirche, the main Catholic Church in this staunchly Protestant town. Further east lays the Hofgarten, which contains both formal gardens and "natural" sections with centuries-old trees. Its Orangerie is a fine French-style Baroque building near which, at the spot where Kaspar Hauser received his fatal stab wounds, is a stone memorial with the inscription: "Here died a man unknown by means unknown". |
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