Castle Rosenau ( him. Schloss Rosenau , literally: "The Land of Roses") - a castle in Bavaria . The castle is located in the middle of a park in the town of Rodenthal in the Coburg district. This is the birthplace of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , later the husband of the British Queen Victoria . Today, Rosenau Castle is used as a museum.
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| Rosenau castle | |
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| Schloss rosenau | |
 View of Rosenau Castle, circa 1890 | |
| A country |  Germany |
| City | Rodenthal |
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| Founding date | XIII century |
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The castle was first mentioned in the annals in 1439 . He stands on the banks of the river Itz . Until 1704, it belonged to the noble family of Rosenau, and then to the Austrian baron Ferdinand Adam von Pernau.
After his death in 1731 , the castle of Rosenau was sold to the Duke Frederick II , and then became the summer residence of the Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha . The latter, in the period from 1806 to 1817 , rebuilt the neo-Gothic castle according to the plans of the German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The wife of Ernst I, Duchess Louise , was the mother of Duke Ernst II and Prince Albert, who was born in 1819 in the castle of Rosenau and in 1840 married the British Queen Victoria. The royal couple often visited Rosenau Castle, which Victoria considered her “real home”.
Duke Ernst II was more interested in Cullenberg castle , so he gave Rosenau castle to his nephew and successor Alfred , the second son of Queen Victoria. His widow Maria Alexandrovna , daughter of Russian Tsar Alexander II and Princess Maximilian Wilhelmina Augusta Sophia Maria of Hesse and Prirein (later Empress Maria Alexandrovna), lived in the castle until her death in the autumn of 1920 .
After Coburg was annexed to Bavaria in the same 1920, the castle became the property of the Unterwolsbach community in Rodenthal, and until 1938 was rented to the daughter of Duke Alfred. Since 1948 , it has been used as a nursing home for more than twenty years, until it became a museum.