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THE PALACE SQUARE OF WOLFENBUETTEL AROUND 1740

Research / Reconstruction
Elmar Arnhold, AG gebautes Erbe, Braunschweig
Holger Wittig

Historical Advice
Dr. Hans Henning Grote

Modelling / Texturing
Frank Ziehe, scheinwelten.net, Braunschweig

Technical Support
pixvertex.com, Berlin

Music
Georg Friedrich Händel, around 1720

Directed by
Frank Ziehe, scheinwelten.net

Produced in 2011 for Museum In The Castle Of Wolfenbuettel

Modeled with AutCAD 2000, textured with 3dsmax6, rendered in Lumion3D and postproduction in Premiere Elements.

This movie shows the virtual reconstruction of the Palace Square at Wolfenbüttel (Germany) around 1740.

Published in 2011 for the homepage of the palace-museum of Wolfenbüttel.
About 90% of the buildings are based on old-fashioned research in the city- and state-archives.
We used old cityplans, copperplates and paintings for the reconstruction of geometry, colours and materials.
Additionally some modern analysises of the existing buildings found out their original colours.

Nearly 60% of the buildings still exist.
But important buildings like the big tower and the houses near the palace, the gate and the library at the end of the movie are gone.
The public space did change completely for the purpose of motorized traffic.
In 1740 there was a hippodrome.