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Bad Homburg - History |
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The "Homburger"
was a popular hat for the members of the Windsor family (hat museum in the "Gotischen Haus"), who belonged to the regular visitors
before World War I (Edward VII.). The last German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II. even had an own station in his appreciated summer residence Bad
Homburg vor der Höhe . The
Gothic House - was one of the things that the Bad
Homburg Prince Friedrich VI Josef wished, As
requested, the construction of a "Gothic manor house" for hunting parties, excursions and court festivities was begun in 1823. The
building owes its unusual style to the tastes, artistic sensibilities and ultimately the dowry of the English Princess Elisabeth. She had
learned to appreciate this form of architecture in England, the homeland of of the neo-Gothic style Palace
and Park - The Palace was designed in 1678 for Count Friedrich II by Paul Andrich. The ornate
portal of the Count's Gate reminds visitors of Friedrich II exploits on the battlefield as a general. In its unadorned simplicity, the originally two-floored Palace reflects the austerity of the period following the devastating 30 Years War. At that time, it was quite a venture to build such a palace, something that Friedrich II was only able to finance through a wealthy marriage. In fact, construction was not to be completed until 1834 - 1841, when the east wing and part of the west wing where built by Georg Moller, Darmstadt's famous classicistic architect. |
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In 1863, the brothers Blanc, Huguenots, had to assign the most important casino in Europe at that time, the casino of
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe 
