About 250 visitors came on Saturday for the presentation of the title "Frederick II - King of Prussia - Saxon enemy - Regent at Castle Dahlen. In the hall of the castle Dahlen gave the authors, the former ZDF journalist Legal Claus and his brother Gert a Insight into the manuscript and answered questions from visitors. Following the authors signed the newly printed book delivered. as the "first servant of the state" was Frederick II, known by the pseudonym "Old Fritz" in the history of enlightened absolutism. Modern thinking and innovation shape the image of the Prussian king, his 300th of the 2012 Birthday may be celebrated.
Because of this event and the fact that the residence of Frederick II at Castle Dahlen a "wallflower existence" entertains, went to the brothers Claus and Gert Legal this book project. After three years of intensive Research in church records, birth certificates, historical documents and government archives, they finally published their findings and gives a comprehensive insight into the world of the 18th Century. Well, the book "Frederick II - King of Prussia - Saxon enemy - Regent at Castle Dahlen" in Access Press.
hid in the ruins of the Saxon manor Dahlen, some, of the Legal brothers now uncovered secrets. Although it was known that the old man said Fritz has 23 days to his current residence, striking details of the courtyard and the building architecture had not yet been published.
Far more important, however, you can attach to the discovery of the two authors that they have acquired with the help of a document from the State Archive of Dresden. It is the looting of the hunting lodge Hubertus Castle, was robbed in 1761 by order of Frederick II. The previously considered to be accurate accounts of the event proved to find that source to be insufficient and in some cases as simply incorrect. A very eye-witness account of facts of the former Castle manager George Samuel Idol is based on the new findings. In it he describes the appalling conditions in war everyday strongly associated with all the multiple hardships that the people loaded.
Regarding Castle Dahlen is worth mentioning in this context that this was the ultimate place where in 1763 Friedrich was his signature on the guarantee of peace against Hubertus Castle. Around the same time made this important governmental his former enemies Maria Theresa of Austria and Frederick Augustus II of Poland. In this moment of contract signing took place between the three residences Vienna, Warsaw and Dahlen to a meeting of equals, why Dahlen is today regarded as a historically valuable site.
With the help of numerous documents, the "Gemayne book" (local directory) over the three miles from Dahlen entfernten Dorfes Schmannewitz und illustrierten Beispielen aus der Messemetropole Leipzig gelang es den Brüdern Legal ein beeindruckendes Spiegelbild der Lebensbedingungen der Menschen im Kriegsalltag zu schaffen. Somit ist dieses Buch in der Lage, spannenden und interessanten Lesestoff für einen weit umfassenden Personenkreis zu liefern.
Claus und Gert Legal
Friedrich II. – Preußens König – Sachsens Feind – Regent auf Schloss Dahlen
Hardcover, ca. 300 Seiten
ISBN 978-386939-371-1
24,90 EUR
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