Ehrenburg Palace, Coburg Photos

Ehrenburg Palace was the home of the Saxe-Coburg family whose most famous son was Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. The palace, much of which dates from its elaborate decorations of the 1690s, was also updated several times, including for visits of Queen Victoria.

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Carriage entrance facade at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Water fountain at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Tower containing spiral staircase at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Entrance staircase at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Paintings of members of Saxe-Coburg royal family members in Family Hall at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Portrait of Prince Albert at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Portrait of Queen Victoria with Crown Prince Edward VII at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Saxe-Coburg royal family member portraits at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Saxe-Coburg royal family member portraits at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	White Hall with stucco decoration (1691-2) by Giovanni Carcani or Girolarno Rossi at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	White Hall with stucco fireplace (1691-2) by Giovanni Carcani or Girolarno Rossi at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	White Hall with stucco fireplace detail (1691-2) by Giovanni Carcani or Girolarno Rossi at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

White Hall with stucco ceiling & fireplace detail (1691-2) by Giovanni Carcani or Girolarno Rossi at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	White Hall with stucco ceiling detail (1691-2) by Giovanni Carcani or Girolarno Rossi at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	White Hall with stucco fireplace detail (1691-2) by Giovanni Carcani or Girolarno Rossi at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Hall of Giants (1697-9) with stuccowork by Carlo Domenico & Bartolomeo Luchese at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Ceiling details of Hall of Giants (1697-9) with stuccowork by Carlo Domenico & Bartolomeo Luchese at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Atlas-like figures support Hall of Giants (1697-9) with stuccowork by Carlo Domenico & Bartolomeo Luchese at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Heraldic arms in Hall of Giants (1697-9) with stuccowork details at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Atlas-like figures support Hall of Giants (1697-9) with stuccowork by Carlo Domenico & Bartolomeo Luchese at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Atlas-like figures support Hall of Giants (1697-9) with stuccowork by Carlo Domenico & Bartolomeo Luchese at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Chandelier & fireplace in Hall of Giants at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Gallery of scenic paintings at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Man of Sorrows painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Gallery ceiling details of murals & stucco at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Gallery ceiling details of murals & stucco at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Gallery ceiling details of murals & stucco at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Portrait of King Leopold of Belgium at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Ceiling of Gobelin room (1692) with stuccowork by Carlo Tagliota at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Detail of ceiling of Gobelin room (1692) with painting by Domenico Cadorata at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Detail of ceiling of Gobelin room (1692) with stuccowork by Carlo Tagliota at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Tapestry from Nouveaux Indes series (1736-41) by Alexandre-François Desportes for Gobelin Factory of Paris in Gobelin room at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Throne Hall (1816-33) at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Throne Hall (1816-33) at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Detail of ceiling in Throne Hall (1816-33) at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Detail of ceiling in Throne Hall (1816-33) at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Crown Prince Friederich III, later Kaiser of Germany portrait (1860) by Gustav Richter at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Tapestry from Nouveaux Indes series (1736-41) by Alexandre-François Desportes for Gobelin Factory of Paris in Audience room at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Tapestry from Nouveaux Indes series (1736-41) by Alexandre-François Desportes for Gobelin Factory of Paris in Audience room at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Audience room ceiling (1822-5) at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Cobalt blue porcelain (c1820) prob. from Russia at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Study room at Ehrenburg Palace with swan motif sofa (1815) from Paris & matching swan chairs & table made in Coburg. Coburg, Germany.	Duchess Luise, 1st wife of Duke Ernst I, & children painting (1823-4) by Ludwig Döll if Gotha at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Swan motif chairs & table (c1815) made in Coburg in imitation of Paris originals at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Porcelain coffee & tea service at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Clock in form of lyre (1815) from Paris at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Tile heating oven in study at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Queen Victoria's bedroom at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Commode in Queen Victoria's bedroom at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Sculpture of Queen Victoria at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Portrait of Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Portrait of Victoria Maria Louise of Saxe-Coburg, Duchess of Kent, Wife of Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent; mother of Queen Victoria at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Wooden room (1825) was originally a library at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Boudoir & Poetry Niche of Duchess Luise (19thC) with stucco by Johannes Hoffmann & paintings by Pietro Cremonini at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Bedroom of Duchess Luise at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Bedroom of Duchess Luise at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Bronze mantle clock (1815) from Paris at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Study of Duchess Luise with settee & chairs with swan arms made in Coburg at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Detail of chairs with swan arms made in Coburg at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Ferdinand von Braunschweig- Wolfenbüttel portrait (1769) by Anna Rosina de Gasc Lisiewska at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Tiled stove (1814) by Tobias Feilner furnace factory of Berlin in reception room at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Reception room chairs (1813) by Jacob & Jacob-Desmalter of Paris at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Reception room ceiling & frieze by Alois Keim at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Etruscan room (aka second wooden room) (1818-9) with carved wooden chandelier (1812) from Vienna at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Details of wooden panels in Etruscan room at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Bronze clock in form of sunflower held by female figure (prior to 1819) by Gerard-Jean Galle of Paris at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Study with walls of red silk from Lyon at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Duke Ernst II & wife Alexandrine after a hunt painting (1844) by Ben Jaggia Raden Saleh prince of Java at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Tile stove in niche beside porcelain vases (1820-30) from Berlin at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Ceiling of study at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Portrait of Duke Alfred (reigned in Coburg 1893-1900) son of Queen Victoria at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Chinese lacquer table (mid 19thC) in dining room at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Dining room ceiling at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Dining room as modified (1855) at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Court church (1734) with Baroque stuccowork by Luchese Brothers at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Details of sculpted stucco (1734) by brothers Bartolomeo & Carlo Domenico Luchese in Court church at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.

Baroque ceiling painting of St John's Revelations in Court church at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Ceiling painting of four horsemen of Apocalypse from Revelations of St John in Court church at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Baroque details of Court church at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.	Baroque details of Court church at Ehrenburg Palace. Coburg, Germany.