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Queen Victoria's visit to Germany: Reinhardsbrunn, near Gotha, the residence of Her Majesty, 1862. 'The country seat of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the abode at present of her Majesty Queen Victoria, is beautifully situated about nine miles from Gotha. It is built on the site of an ancient Benedictine Abbey, destroyed in the Peasants' War, 1525. The present structure was erected by the father of the late Prince Consort, in the style of the middle ages, from the designs of Gustavus Eberhard; and it unites with great skill the conveniences of modern life with the style and spirit of the ancient building on whose foundation it stands. It contains summer and winter apartments, spacious halls, saloons, corridors, and galleries, of which latter the stags-homs gallery (so named from its adornments being composed of stags' horns) is most worthy of notice. Several curious old monuments of Saxon Princes are placed in the chapel. The country about Reinhardsbrunn resembles a beautiful park, and immediately behind the mansion rises the Insels Berg, from the top of which a finer view can he obtained than from any other mountain of the Thuringian range'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.