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The lock peace stone in Gotha (Thuringia) is a earlybaroque lock plant in the place of the 1567 geschleiften castle Grimmenstein.

The Magdeburger fortress farmer Andreas Rudolph implemented the building of locks 1643-54. The client was duke Ernst I. of Saxonia Gotha.

In the time until 1675 the lock served Ernst I. of 1640 as residence for duke - 1894 were it administrative seat of the duchy Saxonia Gotha. It has living and representation rooms from the baroque to the classicism. The festival room and the stucco works resulted from the brothers Samuel and Johann Peter Rust.

During the regency of Ernst II. (1772 - 1804) were geschleift the fortifications and a small observatory, a physical cabinet and a constant theatre were furnished. The collections and the library were extended. The latter also among its successors August taken place (1804 - 1822) and Friedrich IV. (1822 - 1825). With the becoming extinct of the line Saxonia Gotha Altenburg the lock peace stone turned into to the line Saxonia Coburg Gotha.

Today the museums of the city with important art treasures of Thuringia and the Ekhof theatre are there accommodated. Also you find here research library Erfurt/Gotha and Thuringian public records Gotha.

The lock was within its own strong attachment (1663-1778), whose Kasematten is partly again accessible. On the former attachment works one of the first English park plants of Germany was established.

On 1 January 2004 the lock was transferred to the donation of locks and gardens.

Into the Orangerie because of humidity the dry rot had unfortunately drawn. The windows were nailed with boards. Because of the beauty of the lock it has a lock in the TV-transmission "“to win"”, in May 2006, MDR, 500,000 "€ "“is won."” Therefore is to be counted on an imminent re-establishment of the maroden Orangerie.

Orangerie photo


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