Augusta and Schloss Richmond: How an English princess created a little corner of home in Germany
Schloss Richmond Photo: Heinz Kudalla, via Wikimedia Commons On a little hill just outside a provincial German city, there stands a charming 18th century building, modestly sized but still grand, with its pale stone walls and pilasters. The gates in front of it are open, so that a curious passer-by can wander in to inspect the structure more closely, before making their way around to the other side, where they can admire the view down to a river at the bottom of the hill, and away to the countryside beyond. There are no signs or information plaques to be seen here, but on the map, the building is marked as Schloss Richmond. Our passer-by might wonder at this distinctly English-sounding name. It turns out that the palace is indeed named after Richmond, London, and once represented a little piece of England for a patriotic princess. Her name was Augusta, sister of George III of Great Britain, who married Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, in 1764. She appears
