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4 unusual facts about Ernst of Schaumburg


Adriaen de Vries

During this late period he found a new patron in the Prince of Liechtenstein and received sculpture commissions from several German sovereigns, such as from Ernst of Schaumburg for the resurrection group in Stadthagen mausoleum, today the only work of De Vries to be seen in its original situation; he was also commissioned to make a Neptune fountain for the gardens of the king of Denmark's royal palace, Frederiksborg.

Ernst of Schaumburg

Ernst of Schaumburg (September 24, 1569 – January 17, 1622) was the first of the Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein-Pinneberg to earn the title of Prince, in 1619.

Große Freiheit

The street was named in 1610 after the fact that Count Ernest of Schaumburg and Holstein-Pinneberg had granted religious freedom to non-Lutherans such as Mennonites and Roman Catholics to practice their faith here and commercial freedom for handcrafters not enrolled in the else compelling guilds.

Melchior Goldast

In 1611 he was appointed councillor at the court of Saxe-Weimar, and in 1615 he entered the service of Graf Ernst von Schaumburg at Buckeburg.



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