Frederik III - Duke and Art Lover

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He was a duke and a lover of art. Shortly after the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), Frederik III managed to focus attention on beauty and to promote art, culture and science at Gottorf Palace. In his garden, he had a walk-in globe built, that could seat 10 people. As the first planetarium in the world, it shows the earth on the outside and the starry sky on the inside. The globe was located in a magnificent pavilion in the middle of the Baroque garden, that was world-famous for its 1,200 or so non-native plant species. Together with his court scholar Adam Olearius, he founded the Kunst- und Wunderkammer, an extraordinary Baroque collection of knowledge and art. Frederick III developed the small duchy of Gottorf into the most important cultural centre of the North.  

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