Ehrenburg Palace
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Ehrenburg Palace is a palace in Coburg
Coburg
Coburg is a town located on the Itz River in Bavaria, Germany. Its 2005 population was 42,015. Long one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined with Bavaria by popular vote in 1920...

, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

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The palace was built by John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg
John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg
John Ernest was a Duke of Saxe-Coburg.John Ernest was born in Coburg as the third son of John, Elector of Saxony, and his second wife Margaret of Anhalt-Köthen...

 in 1543.
The new city palace was built around a dissolved Franciscan monastery.
In 1690 a fire destroyed in 1690 the northern part of the palace. This was an opportunity for Duke Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg who had a new Baroque style palace built in 1699.
In the 19th Century, Ernest I had the palace redesigned by Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Karl Friedrich Schinkel was a Prussian architect, city planner, and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both neoclassical and neogothic buildings.-Biography:Schinkel was born in Neuruppin, Margraviate of...

 in Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival architecture
The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...

style.

The palace is used as a museum today.

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