Rastatt Residential Palace (Germ. Schloss Rastatt) is a baroque schloss in Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The palace and the Garden were built between 1700 and 1707 by the Italian architect Domenico Egidio Rossi as ordered by Margrave Louis William of Baden.
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Rastatt Residential Palace is the oldest Baroque residence in the Upper Rhine Valley. The palace, gardens and town were planned as a whole, to create an impression of elegant, perfectly-proportioned uniformity – with the palace commanding pride of place at the centre.
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Rastatt Residential Palace is the oldest Baroque residence in the Upper Rhine Valley. The palace, gardens and town were planned as a whole, to create an impression of elegant, perfectly-proportioned uniformity – with the palace commanding pride of place at the centre.
Rastatt Residential Palace
In 1700, a few years after construction had started on a hunting palace at Rastatt, Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm of Baden-Baden decided that it should be expanded. Envisioning a grand residence modelled on Versailles, he commissioned an Italian architect, Domenico Egidio Rossi, who had previously worked for the Viennese nobility. After the margrave’s early death in 1707, his young widow Sibylla Augusta whom he had married in 1690, took over the reins of government. During her 20 years in power, she oversaw the completion of the palace complex and its sumptuous interiors.
Rastatt Residential Palace
The residence in Rastatt is the oldest Baroque residence in the German Upper-Rhine area. During the 19th century the castle was used as headquarters. The castle was not damaged during World War II. Today the castle is home of two museums, the "Wehrgeschichtliche Museum" (military history) and Erinnerungsstätte für die Freiheitsbewegungen in der deutschen Geschichte (Memorial site for the German liberation movement).
Text source: www.schloss-rastatt.de, Wikipedia.
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