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RECONSTRUCTION OF PALACE SQUARE WOLFENBUETTEL 1740

Reconstruction / Research
Elmar Arnhold

Historical Advice
Dr. Hans Henning Grote
Holger Wittig

Model and animation
scheinwelten Echtzeit, Braunschweig
pixvertex, Berlin

Implementation
AG gebautes Erbe, Braunschweig

Directed by
Frank Ziehe / Elmar Arnhold
scheinwelten.net / gebauteserbe.de

Production
Museum im Schloss Wolfenbüttel, Germany

Modeled with AutoCAD 2000, textured with 3dsmax6 and realtime-rendered in Lumion3D.

© Braunschweig, 2010

A short movie of the virtual realtime-reconstruction of the Palace Square at Wolfenbüttel (Germany) around 1740.

Modeled and published in 2010 for an exhibition in 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.