Reinhardsbrunn

Nevertheless, their Wettin successors still used it as a dynastic burial site and an important chronicle was commissioned around 1340, reflecting the history of Thuringia and Germany back to the 6th century.

His brother, Johann II, planned a reconstruction of the palace, but died before construction could start, however, his widow, Dorothea Maria of Anhalt, initiated some renovations on the site.

Duke Ernest I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who had inherited the site the year before, built his summer residence here in an English style, surrounded by the first Romantic park in Thuringia.

The Saxe-Coburg and Gotha family kept ownership until the end of World War II, after which it came into possession of the East German state.

The house and estate were used for a short time by Soviet Red Army forces as a military hospital and then for various functions by the government of East Germany.

BOB Consult and the property was purchased in 2008 for €12,000,000 by a Russian investment consortium, Rusintech, in a case of suspected money laundering.

[1][3][4] The state of Thuringia performed urgent repairs to prevent structural failure,[5] and in July 2018 legally repossessed it to ensure its safety, the first such action in the Federal Republic.