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21-574: He was born in Schloss Ludwigslust , the eldest son of Hereditary Grand Duke Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princess Alexandrine of Prussia . He became heir apparent to the grand duchy following the death of his great-grandfather Frederick Francis I on 1 February 1837. Frederick Francis was privately educated until 1838. He then attended the Blochmann institute in Dresden before going to

42-406: A cascade that falls across a lip so perfectly regular that it has the name Der Waltze (the "Roll"), a grotto built as a ruin , a Gothic chapel, two mausoleums and a monument to a favourite horse. In 1837, Grand Duke Paul Friedrich returned Schwerin to its capital status. As a summer residence, Schloss Ludwigslust was preserved from further alterations. In the mid-nineteenth century, much of

63-505: A gallery. The opposite range was semi-private, with the Duke's drawing-room and bedchamber (hung with framed miniatures), a cabinet and a gallery with a porcelain chimneypiece. The schloss was the center-point of a range of grand buildings sited in deference to it, including the Hofkirche that served as the court chapel. A central avenue through the town was laid out, centered on the schloss ; on

84-465: A higher projecting central corps de logis in three bays, which appears to penetrate its wings from front to rear; the richer Corinthian order of the central block contrasts with the Ionic of the wings. On the urban side, the central block makes some compromises with the new neoclassical style in the flat planes of the façade, which simply occupies one flank of the square centered on it, without embracing

105-448: A low ground floor that contained guestrooms. The Goldener Saal ("Gilded Hall") in the central block rises through two storeys, with a colossal order of Corinthian columns and massive decorations carried out in stucco and the innovative moldable and modelable paper-maché called Ludwigsluster Carton ; it is used today for summertime concerts. One flanking range was semi-public, with a sequence of antechamber, salon and audience chamber, and

126-498: A second time in Darmstadt to Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine (25 May 1843 – 16 April 1865) on 4 July 1864. They had one daughter: His third wife was Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt on 4 July 1868. They had four children: [REDACTED] Media related to Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Wikimedia Commons Schloss Ludwigslust Ludwigslust Palace ( German : Schloss Ludwigslust )

147-522: A simple hunting lodge within a day's ride (36 km) of the ducal capital, Schwerin . In 1724, Prince Christian Ludwig , the heir of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , decided to build a hunting lodge on this site, near a hamlet called Klenow. Even after he became the reigning duke in his turn in 1747, he passed most of his time at this residence, which he called Ludwigslust ("Ludwig's joy"). In 1765, Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin made Ludwigslust

168-415: Is a stately home or schloss in the town of Ludwigslust , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , northern Germany . It was built as a hunting lodge and rebuilt as a retreat from the ducal capital, Schwerin , then became from 1765 to 1837 the center of government. It was the joy of Prince Christian Ludwig , the heir of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , hence the name Ludwigslust . Ludwigslust had its origins in

189-731: The Franco-Prussian War , during which he was made Governor-General of Reims and commanded the German forces laying siege to Toul . He defended the Prussian forces during the Siege of Paris from attack by the Army of the Loire . He defeated French forces at the battles of Beaune-La-Rolande and Beaugency . He was the maternal first cousin of both German Emperor Frederick III and Russian Tsar Alexander II . He held

210-639: The University of Bonn . Frederick Francis succeeded his father as Grand Duke on 7 March 1842. During the Second Schleswig War , Frederick Francis served on the staff of Generalfeldmarschall Friedrich Graf von Wrangel , having refused a command in the fight against Denmark since Christian IX of Denmark was a close friend. During the Austro-Prussian War he commanded the forces that occupied Leipzig and lay siege to Nuremberg . He also took part in

231-494: The Pious ( German : Friedrich II Herzog von Mecklenburg-Schwerin ; 9 November 1717 – 21 April 1785) was Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1756 until his death. Frederick was born at Schwerin , the son of Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg , and his wife, Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . In his childhood and youth his great-aunt Duchess Augusta of Mecklenburg-Güstrow had great influence on

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252-409: The capital of the duchy instead of Schwerin. Consequently, the little town that had already grown in the service of the schloss was further expanded, and a cornerstone for a new, grander residenz was laid directly behind the old hunting box in 1768. In the years 1772–1776, Ludwigslust was rebuilt to plans by Johann Joachim Busch . The Late Baroque schloss is built on an E-plan foundation, with

273-589: The construction of the Imperial Church (completed in 1770, now the City Church) by architect Johann Joachim Busch, and he continued the expansion of Schloss Ludwigslust between 1772 and 1776. Frederick married on 2 March 1746 at Schwedt to Duchess Louise Frederica of Württemberg , daughter of Frederick Louis , Hereditary Prince of Württemberg, and his wife Margravine Henrietta Maria of Brandenburg-Schwedt . They had four children, who died young. At his death,

294-466: The garden side, the axis was carried through as the Hofdamenallee ("Court ladies' allée "), a central ride through the enclosing woodland, still reaching the slightly elevated wooded horizon today. The palace's surrounding Schlosspark of 120 ha. was laid out with formal canals, fountains and a frankly artificial cascade, tamed of all the wildness that a later, Romantic generation would venerate; it

315-600: The intellectual and spiritual development of Frederick, essentially in instilling the beliefs of Pietism . After the death of his father in 1756, Frederick assumed the government of the Duchy. Shortly after his accession the country was involved in the Seven Years' War . Frederick, was a supporter of Pietism. He encouraged the school system, promoted the textile manufacturing and abolished torture. In 1764 he moved his residence from Schwerin to Schloss Ludwigslust . In 1765 he ordered

336-448: The park was re-landscaped in the more naturalistic English landscape garden manner, under the direction of a garden designer with an extensive clientele among the German aristocracy, Peter Joseph Lenné . Water near the schloss was recast in more naturalistic manner and the surrounding woodland edges were varied, with clumps of trees as outliers, but the main axia Hofdamenallee centered on the palace, still stretches dead straight through

357-508: The rank of Prussian general and was also a Russian General Field Marshal. Frederick Francis died on 15 April 1883 in Schwerin and was succeeded as Grand Duke by his eldest son, Frederick Francis III . Frederick Francis was first married to Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz (26 May 1822 – 3 March 1862) on 3 November 1849 in Ludwigslust . They had six children: Frederick Francis married for

378-452: The space in a cour d'honneur ( illustration, below left ) and in the severe Doric portico . The structure is brick, clad in the local sandstone; forty over-lifesize allegorical figures, also in sandstone, by Rudolf Kaplunger, alternating with vases, crown the low attic above the cornice. The interiors of Ludwigslust are more fully neoclassical. The grand reception rooms are on the piano nobile , or Festetage ("Reception floor"), above

399-779: The tastes of the Mecklenburg dukes. In 1844, William Makepeace Thackeray set a high-living episode of his amoral eighteenth-century hero Barry Lyndon at Ludwigslust, where Barry, pursuing a countess, is accompanied by a black page named Zamor who is dressed in Turkish attire, and his pavilion is "fitted up in the Eastern manner, very splendid. 53°19′29″N 11°29′17″E  /  53.32472°N 11.48806°E  / 53.32472; 11.48806 Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , called

420-515: The woods, and the narrow Great Canal, laid out at an angle to one side, still extends a kilometer and a half. The deposed Mecklenburg-Schwerin family continued to use Ludwigslust until 1945. Today, it houses the Staatliches Museum Schwerin/Ludwigslust/Güstrow (the "State Museum of Schwerin/Ludwigslust/Güstrow"), with a collection of paintings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry and busts by Jean Antoine Houdon that represent

441-553: Was built according to sketches by the French architect Jean-Laurent Le Geay , who had laid out the formal garden at Schwerin in 1749–55, but was quickly overtaken at Ludwigslust by his assistant, Johann Joachim Busch , who began the work in 1763. The trees laid out in the pattern and at the scale of Bernini's colonnades in Piazza San Pietro have disappeared, but there are the neoclassical stone bridge designed by Busch about 1780, with

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