Amalienlust
Prince Friedrich III of Salm-Kyrburg (reign 1778-94) commissioned the Parisian architect Jacques Denis Antoine in 1780 to build a baroque summer residence in Kirn, which was never fully completed. The Amalienlust palace complex, named after his sister Amalie Zephyrine of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, included two pavilions (Teichweg 7 and 11) and a theater (Teichweg 12) around an oval square, which was divided from west to east by the Mühlenteich. Only the water pavilion on the banks of the Nahe was demolished during the construction of the Rhein-Nahe railway. The cellar building, erected a few years earlier, formed the northern boundary of the complex. The colonnades and an arcade that connected the two pavilions were also removed. Amalie Zephyrine of Salm-Kyrburg (*March 6, 1760 in Paris, †October 17, 1841 in Sigmaringen) married the heir prince Anton Aloys of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen in 1782 and is regarded as the 'Savior of Hohenzollern'. She belonged to a German noble family that predominantly lived at the court of King Louis XVI in the surrounding area.
