Jagdschloss Philippsborn
Jagdschloss Philippsborn stood in the forest near Malstatt, within the historic landscape of Saarbrücken. It served the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken as a hunting lodge. Built in 1576 for Count Philipp III, the Renaissance design combined four wings with four corner towers.
Architect Christmann Strohmeier created the lodge, echoing castles at Neunkirchen and Ottweiler. French Revolutionary troops destroyed it on 10 September 1793. Its vaulted cellar remains from the original construction, offering the clearest physical link with the vanished building.
Jagdschloss Neuhaus rose on the same site in the early nineteenth century and became known as Forsthaus Neuhaus. Heinrich Höer depicted the lodge in a 1617 drawing alongside the castles of Neunkirchen and Ottweiler. A copper engraving by Matthäus Merian, made around 1650, preserves another detailed image of its Renaissance form.
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