- Type
- Palace / château
- Location
- Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Style
- Rococo
- Architect
- Johann Adam Breunig
- Visiting
- probably – Wikidata lists it as a museum or gives tickets, opening hours or visitor numbers; check before you go
- Coordinates
- 49.3841°, 8.5706°
History
A moated castle at Schwetzingen is recorded in the 14th century, and in the 16th century the Electors Palatine used it as a hunting seat. Destroyed in the War of the Palatine Succession, it was rebuilt from 1697 by Elector Johann Wilhelm. Its heyday came under Carl Theodor, who from 1742 spent his summers here with the court. Nicolas de Pigage and Johann Ludwig Petri laid out a vast garden combining a Baroque park with a landscape garden, and in 1752 a Rococo court theatre opened. After the court moved to Munich in 1778 the palace lost importance but kept its furnishings.
What to see
Visitors tour the electoral apartments with 18th- and 19th-century furnishings and the Rococo theatre, which hosts a music festival in summer. The garden, with its circular parterre, fountains and statues, hides pavilions: a bathhouse, temples of Apollo and Minerva, artificial ruins and a garden mosque. At the end of one path a trompe-l'oeil painting called The End of the World pretends to open onto a distant landscape.
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