Landgut Marienwahl, Former royal country estate in Ludwigsburg, Germany

Landgut Marienwahl is an estate of separate buildings northwest of Schloss Ludwigsburg. Its main gate stands on Heilbronner Straße (B 27); south of it lies the main building in Classicist style, closed to the public, flanked left and right along the approach path by two Kavaliersgebäude in the same style. West of the rest, in the public park, is the ruin of a brick horse stable.

Built around 1824, the estate was commissioned by Württemberg General Ferdinand Varnbüler, who gave it his name as Varnbüler'sches Schlösschen; Ludwig G. Abel was the builder, not the architect. After several renovations and changes of owner, Prince Wilhelm of Württemberg and his wife Marie of Waldeck-Pyrmont moved in in 1878, and in 1879 the property was renamed Schloss Marienwahl after her. In 1886 Wilhelm added a stud farm on the site of a former brickworks, and the couple lived there until his coronation as King of Württemberg in 1891.

The name Marienwahl comes from Marie of Waldeck-Pyrmont, who moved here in 1878 and whose wish prompted the renaming in 1879. The former brickworks site became a stud farm in 1886, and Princess Pauline of Württemberg, raised here, was buried on the stud's paddock in 1965 with the city's special permission; a grave cross still stands.

Only the park west of the main complex is public; the main house and the two Kavaliersgebäude are privately owned and not accessible. Enter from Heilbronner Straße (B 27), where the main gate stands. The brick stable ruin lies in the public park section, slightly apart to the west.

The grounds contain the grave of Princess Pauline of Württemberg, marked by a simple cross. She lived there until 1965, and her resting place reveals an often-overlooked connection between the estate and the Württemberg royal family.