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Time stamp series Tourist Attractions - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 2001 - 50 Pfennig

Designer: Prof. Fritz und Sibylle Haase

Time stamp series Tourist Attractions - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 2001 - 50 Pfennig


Theme: Architecture
CountryGermany / Federal Republic of Germany
Issue Date2001
Face Value 50.00 
PerforationK 14
Stamp TypePostage stamp
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number2083
Chronological ChapterGER-BRD
SID87485
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In Mindeltal, about 50 kilometers southwest of Augsburg, lies Schloss Kirchheim. In 1551, Anton Fugger, nephew and successor to Jakob Fugger the Rich from Augsburg, bought the Kirchheim estate from the possession of the knight Hans Walther von Hürnheim. His son Hans took over in 1575 the rule of the medieval castle. He commissioned Augsburg town architect Jakob Eschay to design a new residence. The impressive Renaissance building was built from 1578 to 1585. He owns more than a hundred rooms. Eschay adapted the former keep of the castle as a church tower and the former castle chapel as the choir room of a future stately castle church in the plant with a. The showpiece of the castle is the "cedar hall", named after the predominantly used wood, with Europe's most beautiful coffered ceiling. Wendel Dietrich built them in 1585 in the style of Mannerism. Not least because of her, Schloss Kirchheim is one of the most important examples of this type of construction in Germany.

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In Mindeltal, about 50 kilometers southwest of Augsburg, lies Schloss Kirchheim. In 1551, Anton Fugger, nephew and successor to Jakob Fugger the Rich from Augsburg, bought the Kirchheim estate from the possession of the knight Hans Walther von Hürnheim. His son Hans took over in 1575 the rule of the medieval castle. He commissioned Augsburg town architect Jakob Eschay to design a new residence. The impressive Renaissance building was built from 1578 to 1585. He owns more than a hundred rooms. Eschay adapted the former keep of the castle as a church tower and the former castle chapel as the choir room of a future stately castle church in the plant with a. The showpiece of the castle is the "cedar hall", named after the predominantly used wood, with Europe's most beautiful coffered ceiling. Wendel Dietrich built them in 1585 in the style of Mannerism. Not least because of her, Schloss Kirchheim is one of the most important examples of this type of construction in Germany..