Saxon Renaissance
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The Saxon Renaissance is a regional type of architecture from the Renaissance particularly in the area of the Electorate of Saxony on the middle Elbe. Influences that formed the style came primarily f
The Fürstenhaus in Leipzig was a typical building of the Renaissance period. It was built under Hieronymus Lotter's authority.
This house stood in Hainstrasse in Leipzig
Dresden Castle, Saxony
Hartenfels Castle in Torgau (Saxony)
Augustusburg Hunting Lodge
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The hunting lodge of Augustusburg was built from 1568 to 1572 above the town of the same name on a hill called the Schellenberg on the northern edge of the Ore Mountains of Germany. The castle, which
Saxon Renaissance
…and architecture is documented. His library contained many architectural pamphlets and model books of building elements. His main work is the enormous Augustusburg, built between 1568 and 1572. Nowhere else in Europe was an ideal geometric plan implemented so uniformly. The design of the original model could go…
Aerial view from the south
Main entrance
Hunting lodge and surrounding countryside
Coat of arms above the entrance way