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During my recent teavel to Coburg i and my friends also made a Visit to the Burial Ground on the Glockenberg. With thanks to netty who had organized it we even got a guided Tour through the Ducal Mausoleum which normaly can not be visited inside. The Mausoleum, was build in the years 1853-1858 on behalf of Duke Ernst II. for the members of the Ducal Family of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The building is in the shape of a three-nave romanesque Basilica. Insdie the Mausoleum there is a quadtratic Chaepl who is two stores high. On the ground floor there are 2 Crypt 's the northern Corridor Crypt and the southern Corridor Crypt. In the Norhtern Corridor Crypt are buried the Duke Ernst I. and his wifes Duchess Luise, and Duchess Marie. Duchess Luise was first buried in the parish Church of Pfeffelbach nr. Grumbach but in 1846 her Coffin was transferred to Coburg and aftter the Mausoleum was completed in 1860 her Coffin found there its final resting place. Also in the Nothern Corridor Crypt...

The Evening of the religious Wedding a private Dinner for Family and friends took place at Callenberg Castle. We went again to Callenberg to watch the guests arrive there but this time most of the guests where driven up the Hill and only a few walked. We could recognize a fe as Duke Franz of Bavaria wo arrived as one the first guests and Fürst Alexander and Fürstin Nadja zu Schaumburg-Lippe (we could see that the Fürstin was wearing her Wedding tiara) . Philipp von Miller zu Aichholz , Alexadrine von Miller zu Aichholz,. Countess zu Castell-Castell (greaqt-grandaughter of King Frederik VIII. of Denmark), Heinrich von Miller zu Aichholz Michaela von Miller zu Aichholz, Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau, and Alexander von Miller zu Aichholz, Prince Georg Friedrich of Prusiaa, Fürstin Katalin and Fürst Carl Christian of Wrede Countess Agate, Count Heinrich and Countess Annette zu Ortenburg again the Family zu Ortenburgs this time with Hereditary Princess Elisabeth zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Fr...

The Evening before the WEdding a gherman-american Evening took place in a tent beloow of Callenberg Castle. We travelled to Callenberg in the early afternoonand visited the Castle as it was open on t his day. At the moment there is a big exhibition "New York New York" with of Photos of Richard Berenholtz which was opened by the bridal Couple a week before the Wed ding. After we had visited the Castle we stayed below the Castle grounds which wehre closed off and could see the Guests arriving. Most of them came in busses and also in Car s. Most of the Buses stoped and the Guests walked on feet up the hill. The tent Prince Friedrich Konrad of Saxe-Meiningen Albert and Edda Darboven, née Princess of Anhalt Duchess Tatiana of Oldenburg Countess Agathe zu Ortenburg Hereditary Princess Elizabeth zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg Fürstin Anita of Hohenberg and Count Andreas of Bardeau Michaela von Miller zu Aichholz, Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau, Alexander von Miller zu Aichhol...