03 — ARTWORK
Exterior view
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Nestled in the hill 100 metres above the city of Heidelberg stands the Heidelberg Schloss. The castle is a combination of several buildings surrounding an inner courtyard, put together with a haphazard look. Each building highlights a different period of German architecture.
The castle has a history almost as old as the city itself. The first parts of the castle were constructed around 1300, but it was not before Prince Electorone of the German princes who elected the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. From the middle of the 14th century there were seven Electors; the king of Bohemia, the duke of Saxony, the count Palatine of the Rhine, the margrave of Brandenburg, and the archbishops of Mainz, Trier and Cologne. Ruprecht III (1398-1410) that the castle was used as a regal residence.
During the reign of Ludwig V (1478-1544), it was extended with the addition of many fortified buildings plus the main gate. Elector Palatinate Ottheinrich (Otto-Heinrich, 1502-1559) added the grandiose Renaissance wing, the Ottheinrichsbau. Next followed Elector Palatinate Friedrich IV (1574-1610), who added BaroqueThe period in art history from about 1600 to about 1750. In this sense the term covers a wide range of styles and artists. In painting and sculpture there were three main forms of Baroque: (1) sumptuous display, a style associated with the Catholic Counter Reformation and the absolutist courts of Europe (Bernini, Rubens); (2) dramatic realism (Caravaggio); and (3) everyday realism, a development seen in particular in Holland (Rembrandt, Vermeer). In architecture, there was an emphasis on expressiveness and grandeur, achieved through scale, the dramatic use of light and shadow, and increasingly elaborate decoration. In a more limited sense the term Baroque often refers to the first of these categories. The development of the Baroque reflects the period's religious tensions (Catholic versus Protestant); a new and more expansive world view based on science and exploration; and the growth of absolutist monarchies. elements to the palace, such as the Friedrichsbau.
The castle was destroyed at the end of the 17th century and partially restored in the 1890s and later. Only the Friedrichsbau, whose interiors were fire damaged, but not ruined, was completely restored. The ruined Ottheinrichsbau (Ottheinrich Building) has a façadethe front or principal face of a building, especially one elaborately constructed; a blind façade is a façade that is purely decorative and does not relate to the structure of the building. with biblical and mythological figures <a onclick="return OpenOther('/html/c/colyn/ottohein.html')" href="/html/c/colyn/ottohein.html">created by Alexander Colyn</a> in Renaissance style.
Presently, Heidelberg Castle is the most popular castle ruin in Germany.
The photo shows the inner courtyard.
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