Schloss Jägerhof
Rococo hunting palace of an elector, now home to the largest private Goethe collection.
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This guide to Schloss Jägerhof in Düsseldorf follows Anton Kippenberg, a Bremen schoolteacher's son who became head of the Insel publishing house in Leipzig, and the Goethe collection he built over half a century. It begins on a family trip to Weimar when he was ten, at the door of Goethe's old house. Along the way you'll meet an eighteenth-century elector's hunting palace, a Napoleonic houseguest and the bombs of nineteen forty-three. Best heard facing the palace's front door.
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