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Object information:
Bayreuth
Hermitage Court Garden
Address/
Information
Eremitage Haus Nr. 1
95448 Bayreuth
(09 21) 7 59 69-37
fax (09 21) 7 59 69-41
Responsible administration
Schloss- und Gartenverwaltung
Bayreuth-Eremitage
Ludwigstraße 21
95444 Bayreuth
(09 21) 7 59 69-0
Fax (09 21) 7 59 69-15
sgvbayreuth@
bsv.bayern.de
www.bayreuth-wilhelmine.de
Opening hours
Park open all year round
Waterworks from May-October every hour on the hour:
Upper grotto 10am - 5pm
Lower grotto 10.15am - 5.15pm
Admission charges
Admission free
Please note
Largely accessible; in parts difficult because of steep paths
Shop at Hermitage New Palace
www.schloesser-
bayern-shop.de
Hotel-Restaurant Orangerie,
tel (09 21) 79 99 70
www.eremitage-
bayreuth.de
Café Orangerie, Neues Schloss Eremitage
tel (09 21) 79 99 70
Bayreuth
www.bahn.de
Bus 2 to "Eremitage" or
Bus 3 to "Ochsenhut"
Car and bus parking spaces at the entrance to the park
The weather today:
Object description:
Margrave Georg Wilhelm founded the Hermitage on the site of a zoo belonging to his father Christian Ernst. In 1715 the 
Old Palace was begun as the focal point of the hermitage. In the palace and the scattered hermit's huts in the woods the court played at being members of a hermits' order.
From 1735 Margravine Wilhelmine added further formal sections with boskets, avenues and water features to the gardens originally laid out by Margrave Georg Wilhelm. Although traditional baroque elements were used, the result was not a typical baroque garden: the complex is not dominated by a main axis and the individual garden sections are more independent from one another than was usual in the high baroque era.
The New Palace with the upper grotto, the lower grotto, the Margrave's Hermitage, the "Ruined Theatre" and other small buildings from Wilhelmine's day are still the dominant features of the Hermitage. At the end of the 18th century, the Hermitage Court Garden was transformed into a landscape garden, which included replacing the boskets with natural stands of trees and meadows. Over the last 30 years, individual sections of the park which disappeared in the 19th century have been reconstructed.
www.bayreuth-wilhelmine.de
The following rooms are available for your events:
For details please choose a room by clicking on the picture or on the text.
Sonnentempel (Temple of the Sun)
Westflügel (West Wing)
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