Castle Solitude, Rococo hunting palace in Stuttgart-West, Germany
Castle Solitude is a hunting palace west of Stuttgart built in the Rococo style on a hill in the forest belonging to the city. The white building includes an oval central hall, from which two wings extend to both sides and frame a wide inner courtyard.
Construction took place between 1764 and 1769 on the orders of Duke Carl Eugen, who chose the site as a retreat. Architects Johann Friedrich Weyhing and Philippe de La Guêpière led the works together and created a formal complex.
The central marble room displays elaborate stuccowork and a ceiling painting showing worldly rule through allegorical scenes. Visitors today can walk through the original rooms with their Rococo interiors, where the sequence of spaces makes court life in the eighteenth century easy to follow.
The palace opens daily from 10 AM to 4 PM and offers regular tours through the main rooms. Entry is through the inner courtyard, where information boards about the tour route and restrooms are available.
A straight avenue thirteen kilometers long connects the building directly with the Ludwigsburg residence palace. This axis was meant to link the two ducal homes symbolically and spatially.
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