Les lits des princes franconiens à la fin du Moyen Âge

Cadolzburg castle in Bavaria was the seat of the powerful Hohenzollern dynasty during the fifteenth century but it was largely destroyed in 1945. Today, it is planned to create a museum there and to make the place better known to the general public. A study of numerous surviving written sources has...

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Main Author: Uta Piereth
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Published: Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication 2019-09-01
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description Cadolzburg castle in Bavaria was the seat of the powerful Hohenzollern dynasty during the fifteenth century but it was largely destroyed in 1945. Today, it is planned to create a museum there and to make the place better known to the general public. A study of numerous surviving written sources has been undertaken in this context. Where the castle’s bedrooms are concerned, two inventories of 1471, in particular, provide information about the beds of the German princes and sovereigns. They give us a clearer picture of how many beds there were and how they were built and upholstered. This information can be compared with other iconographical sources of the time, with more recent inventories, and with some seventeenth-century Hohenzollern beds in Franconia, which have been preserved. All this information has been brought together for the museum called ‘HerrschaftZeiten ! Erlebnis Cadolzburg’ (The time of the seigniors, live it at Cadolzburg!) which opened in 2017. It comprises representations designed to help visitors understand how a prince’s bed chamber was furnished at the time and what different court beds looked like. After reflection, we did not attempt to reconstitute the luxurious bed linen of a princely bed, but visitors can try out sleeping positions on different bases, cushions and supports.
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Les lits des princes franconiens à la fin du Moyen Âge
In Situ
archives
museography
Franconia
Hohenzollern
Bavaria
Cadolzburg
title Les lits des princes franconiens à la fin du Moyen Âge
title_full Les lits des princes franconiens à la fin du Moyen Âge
title_fullStr Les lits des princes franconiens à la fin du Moyen Âge
title_full_unstemmed Les lits des princes franconiens à la fin du Moyen Âge
title_short Les lits des princes franconiens à la fin du Moyen Âge
title_sort les lits des princes franconiens a la fin du moyen age
topic archives
museography
Franconia
Hohenzollern
Bavaria
Cadolzburg
url https://journals.openedition.org/insitu/23465
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