Palace for the Acropolis
The Palace for the Acropolis (in German, Akropolispalast) was a project designed by the German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the 1830s. However, it could never be built, since Schinkel overestimated the economic capacity of the King of Greece.
History
A large part of the architectural buildings that form the Acropolis of Athens were built during the time of Pericles (469 BC-429 BC). The platform was surrounded by a wall built by the pelasgos, which replaced another earlier more primitive; later a temple was built, the Hecatompedón, which was destroyed by the Persian king Jerjes I. On these ruins, Pericles raised the Partenón together with the rest of the buildings spread throughout the mountain. They all kept in quite good condition until the centuryXVIWhen, because of Ottoman domination, the Parthenon became a mosque, the Erecteion in Hazn and the Powdered Propiles.
During the siege of Athens in 1687, the Venetians, under the command of General Francesco Morosini, made great destruction with their bombings. A mortar blow partially destroyed the Partenón, as the Muslims used it as a duster, being on that occasion when the roof of the temple was broken and part of the artistic treasures of the Acropolis were distributed as a spoil. At the beginning of the centuryXIXLord Elgin transferred remains from the Parthenon sculptures to the British Museum of London.- Kingdom of Greece
Oton, he was the first king of Greece. The Greeks had risen against the Ottoman Empire in 1821, maintaining a struggle that lasted until 1829. Greece had been led since 1828 by Juan Capodistria, but after his murder in 1831, the country plunged into a civil war. At this stage, the Great Powers intervened and decided to turn Greece into a kingdom.
At the 1832 London Conference, the United Kingdom, France and Russia (the great powers of the time) offered the Hellenic throne to the 17-year-old Bavarian Prince Oton of the House of Wittelsbach, who agreed to become the first king of Greece. The new king was a minor when he came to Greece and therefore a Council of Regents ruled on his behalf until 1835. In that year, Oton began a period of absolute monarchy, in which he appointed a counselor (usually of Bavarian origin) as president of the Council of State. Occasionally, he himself was his own chancellor.Features
In 1832, after the Greek war of independence, Prince Otto of Bavaria was elected as the new Greek king, who contacted Schinkel to plan the construction of a new royal palace.
The architect developed a project to build a palace and gardens on the Acropolis of Athens, on the ruins of the ancient temples, paying particular attention to how the new building would integrate with the remains of the Propylaea and the Parthenon.
Comparison between the project and existing buildings
- Parthenon
- Ancient Temple of Athena
- Erecteion
- Statue of Athena Promacos
- Propile
- Temple of Athena Niké
- Eleusinion
- Sanctuary of Artemisa Brauronia
- Calcoteca
- Pandroseion
- Arrangement
- Athena Altar
- Shrine of Zeus Polieo
- Sanctuary of Pandion
- Odeon of Herod Attic
- Stoa de Eumenes
- Asclepius Sanctuary or Asclepeion
- Teatro de Dioniso Eléuteros
- Odeon of Pericles
- Tenos de Dioniso
- Aglaureion
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