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Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)

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Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss)
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This article is about the residential palace. For the other palace on the same grounds, see Schloss Favorite, Ludwigsburg. For the city, see Ludwigsburg. For the porcelain manufactory, see Ludwigsburg porcelain. Ludwigsburg Palace , also known as the Versailles of Swabia, is a 452-room palace complex of 18 buildings located in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With the gardens, its total area is 32 ha — the largest palatial estate in the country. The palace has four wings; the northern wing, the Alter Hauptbau, is the oldest and was used as a ducal residence. The east and west wings were used for court purposes and housing guests and courtiers. The southern wing, the Neuer Hauptbau, was built to house more court functions and was later used as a residency. Construction began in 1704 with Philipp Joseph Jenisch directing for Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg. In 1707, Jenisch was replaced with Johann Friedrich Nette when the duke lost faith in Jenisch's abilities. Nette completed the majority of the palace and surrounding gardens, but died in 1714 before seeing his work completed. Donato Giuseppe Frisoni was appointed to replace Nette the year after, and he finished and modified Nette's work. When Eberhard Louis requested more space for his court, Frisoni built the Ahnengalerie, the Bildergalerie, and the Neue Hauptbau. In the final year of construction, the duke died and the Neue Hauptbau's interiors were left incomplete. Charles Eugene was the next duke to reside at Ludwigsburg, setting up his court here in 1747. His court architect, Philippe de La Guêpière, finished and refurbished parts of the New Hauptbau in the Rococo style, especially the palace theatre. Charles Eugene abandoned the palace for Stuttgart in 1775, but the future King Frederick I began using Ludwigsburg as his summer residence in the last years of Charles Eugene's reign. In 1797, Frederick became Duke and married Charlotte, Princess Royal. Both resided at Ludwigsburg, and employed Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret to renovate the palace in the Neoclassical style. Thouret converted much of Ludwigsburg's interiors for Frederick from 1797 until his death, and then for Charlotte until she died in 1824. As a result of each architect's work, Ludwigsburg is a combination of Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical, and French Imperial architecture. Ludwigsburg Palace was opened to the public in 1918. The next year, and 100 years prior, it was where the constitutions of the Free People's State and Kingdom of Württemberg were ratified. It survived World War II intact, the only palace in Germany of its size and type to do so, and underwent periods of restoration in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1990s and again for the palace's 300th anniversary in 2004. The palace has hosted the Ludwigsburg Festival every year since 1947. The palace attracted more than 350,000 visitors in 2017. Surrounding the palace are the Blooming Baroque gardens, arranged in 1954 as they might have appeared in 1800. Nearby is Schloss Favorite, a hunting lodge built in 1717 by Frisoni. Within the palace are two museums operated by the Landesmuseum Württemberg dedicated to fashion and porcelain respectively.
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