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18-574: Jägersburg has many lakes and ponds. The 3 lakes are the Möhlwoog (7,4 ha), the Brückweiher (7,09 ha) and the Schloßweiher (Castle lake) (1,71 ha). During the 18th century, Schloss Jägersburg was the favourite palace of Christian IV , Duke of Zweibrücken . However, today nothing remains anymore of these times. The districts Altbreitenfelderhof and Websweiler are parts of Jägersburg. As of 1 August 2021,

36-494: A design using the Grand Trianon as example, one of the architectural masterpiece of Jules Hardouin-Mansart , Mansart de Sagonne's grand father. Construction started in 1752 an was ended in 1756 by Pierre Patte , successor of Mansart de Sagonne. The interiors will take to 1770 to complete. However, as from 1755/ 1756 onwards, the palace can already be used for its purposes, such as ‘’par force hunts’’. In 1756, Hardouin-Mansart

54-616: A long-live friendship with the king, as well as with Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764) . The duke was granted an apartment in the palace of Versailles. In addition, the duke had his own Hôtel in Paris . Christian IV had great admiration for the French royal palaces. Stimulated by these palaces, he decided to construct his own palace and hunting palace in Jägersburg. He engages the French architect Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne (1711-1778) to make

72-471: A plan designed by the young Mansart, who had used his family ties with the great François Mansart of the previous reign to make himself and his talents known at court. By 12 June, work was ordered to begin at once because Madame de Montespan was anxious to start planting the grounds that very fall. André Le Nôtre designed the layout of the gardens. In August 1675, Madame de Sévigné visited Clagny, which she described to her daughter: The orangerie , where

90-524: The Saar-Palatinate (Saarpfalz) district , Germany . Constructed in the 18th century by French architect Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne , it was one of the most important residences he ever built, and the favourite hunting lodge of Christian IV , Duke of Zweibrücken . German Grand Trianon , it was destroyed during the French Revolutionary Wars and its last remains were demolished at

108-448: The quartier Notre-Dame of Versailles, it was decided to drain the pond and fill it in. When the ownership of Clagny reverted to the Crown, Louis XV gave some eleven hectares at the edge of the estate to his very religious queen, Maria Leszczyńska , who used the land to establish an Ursuline convent which was built from 1767 to 1772 according to the designs of Richard Mique . The château

126-437: The "little wood of oranges" wintered at Clagny, was a showpiece itself, paved with marble. In the gardens cabinets de verdure shaped into niches that held sculptures were clipped into the dense woods, fitted with trelliswork dadoes to fill in their sparse bases. In a portrait painted by Henri Gascar , Madame de Montespan had herself painted while reclining on a baroque canopied couch, its curtains held up by carved cupids, with

144-414: The barrel-vaulted galerie of Clagny visible behind her, as grand a piece of architecture as any to which a sovereign could yet lay claim. About 1680, Adam-Frans van der Meulen painted a landscape view of a promenade en calèche with Louis XIV, Queen Marie-Thérèse , Madame de Montespan, and the king's son and his wife, which includes in a single coup d'œil both Versailles and Clagny, showing how closely

162-553: The beloved Louis-Auguste, Duke of Maine . In June 1692, Madame de Montespan retired to a convent. At her death in 1707, the Duke of Maine inherited Clagny, followed in time by his grandson, Louis Auguste, Prince of Dombes , who as it turned out became the last of his line. The château reverted to the Crown in 1766. By then, the château, which Madame de Sévigné estimated to have cost not less than two million livres , and to have kept 1200 workers occupied, suffered from years of neglect. It

180-515: The most important of the private residences designed by this great architect, it was demolished in 1769 after years of neglect. Its appearance can only be traced through the engravings made of it, and scattered references in the archives of the Bâtiments du Roi . Louis XIV had bought the estate of Clagny from the Hôpital des Incurables of Paris in 1665. On 22 May 1674, Colbert's son submitted to him

198-662: The place on the Karlsberg. However, these plans were scrapped due to its high costs. The furniture of Schloss Jägersburg was nevertheless moved to Schloss Karlsberg, and the castle was empty. During the French Revolutionary wars, the palace was set on fire various times by revolutionary troops as well as local farmers. Ruins remained and were still standing around 1802, when colonel Thomas Thornton visited them. Colonel Thornton even considered purchasing nearby Schloss Jägersberg . The Jägersburg ruins were demolished somewhere in

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216-515: The start of the 19th century. Today, nothing remains of one of the first neoclassical palaces in Germany. Already in the 16th century, the dukes of Zweibrücken were hunting in the area of Jägersburg. The centre of the hunt was a medieval castle, which is currently named ‘Gustavsburg.’ In 1750, the French king Louis XV (1710-1774) received duke Christian IV of Zweibrücken (1722-1775) in his Palace of Versailles . During his visit, Christian developed

234-509: The two châteaux were located. After the Marquise de Montespan was compromised in the notorious Affaire des Poisons , she was abandoned by the king for Madame de Maintenon , the governess of the marquise's children. As a result of her loss of status at court, she visited the house less and less. In 1685, the King formally made it over to her as a gift, partially for the sake of their eldest natural son,

252-466: The village Jägersburg has 2,704 inhabitants, Altbreitenfelderhof 115 and Websweiler 269. Jägersburg is served by the federal highway B 423. Jägersburg has an old train station. This Saarland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Schloss J%C3%A4gersburg Schloss Jägersburg (English: Jägersburg Palace ) was a palace in Jägersburg , part of Homburg in

270-584: The years to follow after his visit. Today nothing remains from the palace, except various engravings and watercolours, such as those made by Philipp LeClerc, the court painter of Charles II August. The museum in the Gustavsburg castle has a model of Schloss Jägersburg. The palace was one of the first neoclassical palaces in Germany. Its design was based on the Grand Trianon near the Palace of Versailles. But, it

288-581: Was also inspired by the Château de Clagny . The Jägersburg palace was around 123 metres width. Schloss Jägersburg bears similarities to Château d'Asnières , which was also designed by Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne. Ch%C3%A2teau de Clagny The Château de Clagny was a French country house that stood northeast of the Palace of Versailles ; it was designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart for Madame de Montespan between 1674 and 1680. Although among

306-427: Was replaced by the architect Pierre Patte . Johann Ludwig Petri designed the landscape gardens around Schloss Jägersburg. The palace became the preferred seat of the duke. Christian IV’s successor, duke Charles II August (1746-1795) lived in the palace during the first years of his reign. But in 1779, he moves to Schloss Karlsberg and Jägersburg palace is no longer used. In 1782, there were plans to reconstruct

324-418: Was virtually unoccupied for forty years, and the dampness of the surrounding environment greatly accelerated its deterioration. Gradually, the quartier nouveau of the town of Versailles expanded to the edge of the estate of Clagny, nestling in the northern corner between the château and the étang de Clagny , the pond in its park. In 1736, following an episode of "fièvre paludéenne" , possibly malaria , in

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