Amalienschlösschen, Ruined palace in Nymphengarten, Karlsruhe, Germany

The Amalienschlösschen was a building by city architect Friedrich Weinbrenner, erected 1801–1803 on the grounds of today's Nymphengarten as a summer residence for Margravine Amalie. Weinbrenner modelled it on Palladio's Villa Rotonda near Vicenza. Only part of the former staircase and sections of the foundation survive from the 1944 air raid.

Margravine Amalie, wife of Hereditary Prince Karl Ludwig of Baden, commissioned the palace as a summer residence; Friedrich Weinbrenner built it between 1801 and 1803 on the grounds of today's Nymphengarten, modelled on Palladio's Villa Rotonda near Vicenza. From 1915 it housed a music institute. An air raid in 1944 almost completely destroyed it, leaving part of the former staircase and sections of the foundation.

The Amalienschlösschen was commissioned by Markgräfin Amalie, wife of Erbprinz Karl Ludwig von Baden, as a summer residence; Friedrich Weinbrenner modelled it on Palladio's Villa Rotonda near Vicenza. From 1915 the building housed a music education institute. The site is now part of the Nymphengarten, laid out from 1891 by garden director Friedrich Ries as a public park.

The ruins are located within the Nymphengarten between the Natural History Museum and Ettlinger Tor, easily accessible on foot from the city center. You can wander through at your own pace since the site is open and there are no formal access restrictions.

The palace was modelled on Palladio's Villa Rotonda near Vicenza, a design choice by Friedrich Weinbrenner that tied the margravine's summer residence to Italian Renaissance architecture. Until 1866 a Gothic Tower with an attached chapel stood close by, erected in memory of Amalie's husband, Hereditary Prince Karl Ludwig.