Mickeln House
Square neoclassical villa modelled on Genoese designs, set in a riverside landscape park.
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This guide to Mickeln House in Düsseldorf's Himmelgeist district follows Prosper Ludwig, Duke of Arenberg, a nobleman whose fortunes rose and fell with Napoleon, from a Spanish battlefield to an English prison town. It turns to the old manor he bought by the Rhine in the eighteen thirties, and to the Genoese villa engravings his architect worked from. Best heard from the north side, facing the staircase and its stone lions.
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