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Sanspareil

Oriental Building

 

The Oriental Building, which served as a rural hermitage, is also particularly attractive with its fairy-tale, oriental-looking exterior decorated with paste and tuff. The interior is by contrast rather severe, with only sparingly applied stucco-work in the Bayreuth rococo style. What is unusual here is that the rooms are grouped round a small open courtyard; in the middle of this is an old beech tree, the natural heart, as it were, of this man-made building.

"A small detour to Sanspareil prevented me from writing. The location of the place where we were is unique. Nature herself was the architect. The buildings that have been erected there are most unusual. Everything is rural and rustic. We were in very good company and felt free of all constraint." (From a letter of Margravine Wilhelmine, 1749)