Schloss Rosenau, Coburg
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| Schloss Rosenau | |
The Rosenau, c. 1900
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 Location of Rosenau in Germany
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| Alternative names | "The Rosenau" |
| General information | |
| Type | Palace |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival style |
| Town or city | Coburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°17′53″N 11°01′21″E / 50.2981°N 11.0225°E |
| Owner | Bavarian Administration of State Houses, Gardens, and Lakes |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Karl Friedrich Schinkel (redesign) |
Schloss Rosenau, called in English The Rosenau or Rosenau Palace, is a former castle, converted into a ducal country house, between the towns of Coburg and Rödental, formerly in Saxe-Coburg, now lying in Bavaria, Germany.
Schloss Rosenau is perhaps most notable as the birthplace and boyhood home of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who in 1840 became the consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
It should not be confused with another house of the same name at Waldviertel in Austria.
The main fabric of the Rosenau is a medieval structure which was first built at some time before 1439, when it is recorded as a possession of the lords of 'Rosenawe'. For three centuries the estate was owned by a family which took its name from Rosenau, but Silvester von Rosenau, a friend of Luther and Melanchthon, bequeathed his properties to his son weighed down by debts.
In 1704, the Rosenau family finally lost the property when it was sold as a summer residence to the Austrian Freiherr Ferdinand Johann Adam von Pernau (1660-1731), who had been a member of the Privy Council of Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg. Pernau was a pioneering student of bird behaviour. As a long-term experiment, he released a large number of young common chaffinches in and around Rosenau between 1704 and 1720, after first teaching them to sing like tree pipits. He was known as the Freiherr von Pernau zu Rosenau, and his most important publication, printed at Coburg in 1707, was titled Lessons, as to what one can do with the lovely Creatures, the Birds, either by Capture, by Probing of their Characteristics and Taming, or by other forms of Instruction, for Pleasure and Profit.
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