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The Palais du Rhin (English: Palace of the Rhine ), the former Kaiserpalast (Imperial palace), is a building situated in the German (north-east) quarter of Strasbourg ( Neustadt) dominating the Place de la République (the former Kaiserplatz) with its massive dome. A huge building, it and the surrounding gardens, as well as the neighbouring ...
Le palais du Rhin à Strasbourg. Le palais du Rhin, ancien palais impérial (en allemand Kaiserpalast ), se situe à Strasbourg, dans la Neustadt, sur la place de la République qu’il domine de son imposante coupole. Avec le grand jardin qui l’entoure (lui-même ceint de grilles en fer forgé très ornées) et les anciennes écuries ...
- 1883
- Hermann Eggert
- Palais
- Néo-Renaissance
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Le Palais du Rhin à Strasbourg en images 01 Jan 2015 Le Palais du Rhin, siège de la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles du Grand Est et de la Commission centrale pour la navigation du Rhin, ancien palais impérial.
The Palais du Rhin : ex-Imperial Palace and a symbol of political power. Most unusually, Strasbourg can boast the presence of an old German Imperial Palace, built by the Hohenzollern as a political symbol of the integration of Alsace-Lorraine within the 2nd Reich. In the plan for the extension of the city, approved in 1880, the old Kaiserplatz ...
Le Palais du Rhin, construit entre 1884 et 1889 par les Hohenzollern, est un symbole de l'intégration de l'Alsace-Lorraine au II e Reich allemand. Il abrite aujourd'hui la Commission centrale pour la navigation du Rhin et se distingue par son style néo-renaissance germanique.
Palais du Rhin, located on Place de la Republique in Strasbourg, was the former Imperial Palace/Kaiserpalast built for Kaiser Wilhelm I in the 1880s. After the Franco-Prussian war, the Germans gained Strasbourg. They needed new administrative buildings to govern this newly acquired territory and a palace for the Kaiser.
The Palais du Rhin, the former Kaiserpalast (Imperial palace) is a huge building, it and the surrounding gardens, as well as the neighbouring stables, are an outstanding landmark of 19th-century Prussian architecture. After the Franco-Prussian War, Strasbourg, then German, was faced with the question of an official residence for the Kaiser.
