Franz von Stuck: Kämpfende Amazone (1897) formerly at Carinhall.

Carinhall was the country residence of Hermann Göring, built on a large hunting estate northeast of Berlin in the Schorfheide forest between the Großdöllner See and the Wuckersee in the north of Brandenburg. Franz Stuck (1863 - 1928), German symbolist/expressionist painter, was born at Tettenweis, in Bavaria, and received his artistic training at the Munich Academy. ... Hermann Wilhelm Göring ( ) (also Goering in English) (January 12, 1893 – October 15, 1946) was a German politician and military leader, a leading member of the Nazi Party, second in command of the Third Reich, and commander of the Luftwaffe. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...   (Lower Sorbian: Bramborska; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska) is one of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). ...

Named in honour of his Swedish first wife Carin Göring (1888–1931), it was constructed in stages from 1933 on a large scale, but in the manner of a hunting lodge. The main architect was Werner March, designer of the Olympic stadium in Berlin. Carin Göring (21 October 1888 – 17 October 1931) was the first wife of Hermann Göring. ... Werner March was one of Adolph Hitlers architects, his most famouse work was Berlins olypmic stadium. ...

On 10 April 1935 Carinhall was the venue for Goring's wedding banquet with his second wife, Emmy Sonnemann. April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... Emmy Sonnemann, born on March 24, 1893 in Hamburg, Germany, died on June 8, 1973 in Munich, German actress. ...

Carinhall became the destination for many of the art treasures that Göring looted from across the Reich (see Nazi plunder). Nazi plunder stored in a church at Elligen, Germany, 1945 Nazi plunder refers to art theft and other items stolen as a result of the organized spoliation of European countries during the time of the Third Reich by agents acting on behalf of the ruling Nazi Party of Germany. ...

Emmyhall

Göring's smaller hunting lodge at Rominten (now Krasnolesye), the Reichsjägerhof, was called "Emmyhall" after his second wife. Krasnolesye (Russian: Краснолесье, Krasnolese; German: Rominten, Groß-Rominten, Hardteck; Polish: Rominty Wielkie; Lithuanian: Raminta, Rominta) is a small town situated at the river Krasnoja (Rominta) in Russias Kaliningrad Oblast close to the border to Poland. ...

Fate

Carinhall was dynamited on 28 April 1945 at Göring's orders by a Luftwaffe demolition squad, to prevent it falling intact into the hands of the advancing Red Army. The art treasures were evacuated beforehand to Berchtesgaden. April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 247 days remaining. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Berchtesgaden is a town in the German Bavarian Alps. ...

Only the monumental entrance gates, a few foundation structures, and decorative stones remain from the building. A bronze statue by Franz von Stuck, Kämpfende Amazone (1897), once at Carinhall, is now at Eberswalde. Franz Stuck (1863 - 1928), German symbolist/expressionist painter, was born at Tettenweis, in Bavaria, and received his artistic training at the Munich Academy. ... Eberswalde is a major town and the administrative seat of the district Barnim in the German Federal State (Bundesland) of Brandenburg, about 50 km northeast of Berlin. ...

Legacy of Carinhall

In 1999 new interest was sparked by the book Görings Reich: Selbstinszenierungen in Carinhall^[1] which saw treasure hunters drawn to the ruins, and concerns raised about the site becoming a neo-Nazi "shrine".^[2]

See also

• Nazi architecture

Germany pavilion at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris, 1937. ...

References

Sources

• Roger Manvell - Der Reichsmarschall. 1983. ISBN 3-8118-4370-2
• Leonard Mosley - The Reich Marshal: A Biography of Hermann Goering. 1975. ISBN 3-420-04727-4

External links

• Google Maps: Carinhall
• Carinhall information (German)