⚡️⚡️⚡️A car has driven into a crowd at the Christmas market in Magdeburg.
Media reports indicate 11 dead and 60 injured. Initial witness statements differ: some say there were two cars.

Yesterday marked the anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin. On 19 December 2016, 12 people lost their lives there.

A representative of the government of Saxony-Anhalt described the incident as a terrorist attack.

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This palace, unusual for the Russian province and in neo-Gothic style, belonged to Jewgenija Maximilianowna and Alexander Petrowitsch von Oldenburg – members of the Russian princely and ducal family of German origin.

The history of the palace began in 1878 when Princess Jewgenija von Oldenburg acquired an estate in the province.

The manor house was built between 1883 and 1887. The author of the project is not precisely known, with various names mentioned, including the famous Nikolai Benois, and the work on the object was led by Christophor Nesler.

The three-storey building of the palace with a basement was multifunctional: it was intended for the comfortable living of the von Oldenburg family as well as for social receptions. On the ground floor were the representative rooms – study, large living room, library, billiard room, and on the first floor the private chambers of the Oldenburgs. For its time, the palace was innovative, with the latest technologies applied in its construction.

The building was heated by a stove in the basement, which was operated with solid fuels. In the metre-thick brick walls of the building, cavities were left for the heating system, through which the heated air from the stove reached the rooms.

The building, apart from the towers, is adorned with elegant wrought ironwork: railings of stairs, balconies, and on the east side of the palace, there is a veranda covered with light glass.

In a uniform architectural style with the palace, the representative entrance gates are designed with a large gatehouse tower. Bells with a unique mechanism, ordered by Jewgenija from the German factory "Winter", are installed on the tower. It is said that the ringing of the bells could be heard within a radius of 9 kilometres, with the tower serving as a resonator. The small tower is adorned with a Lutheran cross.

To the right of the entrance gates (as seen from the palace) is the house with risalites, which during the Oldenburgs' time was used for accommodating "second-class" staff. After the revolution and the nationalisation of the estate, the building was lost, but it was restored in historical form and scale in 2019. The house with risalites now hosts temporary exhibitions, various business events, and concerts.

On the east side of the palace is the Lower Park, once a place of seclusion and relaxation for the residents of the "Ramon" estate. It lies on a steep riverbank slope, with a decorative staircase leading down. The park was planted with native and introduced tree species, footpaths were laid out, there was a bridge over a small ravine, and a wooden pavilion.

📍 Coordinates of the location (map point) available here

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