Ludwigsburg Palace, nicknamed the "Versailles of Swabia" is a 452-room palace complex of 18 buildings located in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its total area, including the gardens, is 32 ha (79 acres) – 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 residence of the Duke of Württemberg; 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 residence.
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00:00Ludwigsburg Palace, nicknamed the, Versailles of Swabia, is a 452-room palace complex of
00:1318 buildings located in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
00:17Its total area, including the gardens, is 32 hectares the largest palatial estate in
00:22the country.
00:23The palace has four wings.
00:25The northern wing, the Altar Hopbau, is the oldest and was used as a residence of the
00:29Duke of Württemberg.
00:31The east and west wings were used for court purposes and housing guests and courtiers.
00:35The southern wing, the Neue Hopbau, was built to house more court functions and was later
00:39used as a residence.
00:41Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, appointed Philip Joseph Jenisch to direct the work,
00:46and construction began in 1704.
00:49In 1707, Jenisch was replaced by Johann Friedrich Nett, who completed most of the palace and
00:55surrounding gardens.
00:56Nett died in 1714, and Donato Giuseppe Frisoni finished much of the palace facades.
01:02In the final year of construction, Eberhard Louis died, and the Neue Hopbau's interiors
01:07were left incomplete.
01:08Charles Eugene's court architect, Philippe de la Gempierre, completed and refurbished
01:13parts of the Neue Hopbau in the Rococo style, especially the palace theatre.
01:18Charles Eugene abandoned the palace for Stuttgart in 1775.
01:22Duke Frederick II, later King Frederick I, began using Ludwigsburg as his summer residence
01:27in the last years of Charles Eugene's reign.
01:30Frederick and his wife Charlotte, Princess Royal, resided at Ludwigsburg and employed
01:35Nikolaus Friedrich von Thoret to renovate the palace in the neoclassical style.
01:40Thoret converted much of Ludwigsburg's interiors over the reign of Frederick and the later
01:44life of Charlotte.
01:45As a result of each architect's work, Ludwigsburg is a combination of Baroque, Rococo, neoclassical,
01:52and empire-style architecture.
01:54The constitutions of the Kingdom and Free People's State of Württemberg were ratified
01:58at Ludwigsburg Palace, in 1819 and 1919 respectively.
02:02It was the residence for four of Württemberg's monarchs and some other members of the House
02:06of Württemberg and their families.
02:08The palace was opened to the public in 1918 and survived World War II intact.
02:13It underwent periods of restoration in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1990s and again for the
02:20palace's 300th anniversary in 2004.
02:23The palace had more than 350,000 visitors in 2017 and has hosted the Ludwigsburg Festival
02:28every year since 1947.
02:31Surrounding the palace are the blooming Baroque, Blüenzbarock, gardens.
02:36Arranged in 1954 as they might have appeared in 1800.
02:40Nearby is Schloss Favourit, a hunting lodge built in 1717 by Frisoni.
02:45Within the palace are two museums operated by the Landesmuseum Württemberg dedicated
02:49to fashion and porcelain respectively.
02:52Ludwigsburg, meaning, Louis's Castle, was named after its builder, Eberhard Louis, Duke
02:57of Württemberg, in 1705.
02:59It was built on the site of a hunting estate and lodge owned by the Dukes of Württemberg.
03:04This was destroyed by invading French troops in 1692, during the Nine Years' War, and replaced
03:10by another lodge built from 1697 to 1701.
03:14The beginning in 1701 of another war, the War of the Spanish Succession, against France
03:19and Bavaria, interrupted construction of this lodge, though Württemberg deferred
03:23entering the war until late 1702.
03:27Württemberg was subsequently invaded by France and Bavaria, but in 1704, the Bavarian
03:32Elector was defeated at the Battle of Blenheim and exiled, and Bavaria was occupied.
03:37Eberhard Louis, a participant of Blenheim and the subsequent occupation, spent the winter
03:41of 1705-06 at the Elector's residence, Nymphenburg Palace.
03:47Eberhard Louis used these developments to press claims to Bavarian lands but illegally
03:51occupied the claimed lands.
03:53He was further undone by another French invasion of Württemberg in 1707 that resulted in the
03:58destruction of his capital and the flight of his family to Switzerland.
04:02That is all.
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