Studnitz-Pyramide, Gotha
Facts and practical information
The Studnitz Pyramid is a burial place built after 1779 by Oberhofmarschall Hans Adam von Studnitz during his lifetime in his garden in Gotha, until then unique in post-ancient Europe. The garden was covered with the buildings of a grammar school in 1837.
The tomb pyramid, made of Seeberg sandstone, was built by the Gotha court sculptor Friedrich Wilhelm Döll, a student of the famous French sculptor and freemason Jean Antoine Houdon.
It was not until later that the form of the pyramid was frequently taken up again in classicism for funerary monuments, borrowing from the Cestius Pyramid in Rome, for example by Antonio Canova in the design of the tomb for Archduchess Marie Christine or in the Karlsruhe Pyramid.
The pyramid was restored in 2001-2002 by the Gotha Cultural Foundation.
Gotha
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Bus
- Calculate routeMyconiusplatz 6 min walk
- Calculate route18.-März-Straße 7 min walk
- Calculate routeBertha-von-Suttner-Platz 10 min walk
- Calculate routeOrangerie 11 min walk
- Calculate routeBusplatz 10 min walk
- Calculate routeBertha-von-Suttner-Platz 10 min walk
- Calculate routeGadollastr./Landratsamt 10 min walk
- Calculate routeGartenstraße 11 min walk
- Calculate routeGotha 17 min walk
- Calculate routeGotha Ost 38 min walk
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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Tram
- Myconiusplatz • Lines: 1, 3, 4 (6 min walk)
- 18.-März-Straße • Lines: 1, 3, 4 (7 min walk)
Bus
- Busplatz (10 min walk)
- Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz • Lines: A (10 min walk)
Train
- Gotha (17 min walk)
- Gotha Ost (38 min walk)
Thuringia