Schloss Dürkheim

From 1739 onward, he extended or heightened this wall and laid out a garden between it and the palace, where today the buildings and parking lot of the Kurpark-Hotel are located.

His son and successor, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, the 1st Prince of Leiningen from 1779, had side wings added to the palace and, starting in 1762, laid out a large garden or park to the east, the present Kurpark area.

Under Iffland's personal direction, the future Prince Emich Carl of Leiningen (1763–1814), son of the theater patron, played one of the lead roles, along with his relative Heinrich Ernst Ludwig of Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen (1752–1799) from Grünstadt.

In the same time, prince Carl Friedrich also erected a hunting lodge in Jägerthal, ten kilometers to the south of Dürkheim , where he also established a theater.

In August 1792, the exiled Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé from revolutionary France stayed at Dürkheim Palace with his entourage.

[1] As the lands on the Left Bank of the Rhine became permanently part of France, the princely family of Leiningen could not return, and the palace was never rebuilt.

According to a surviving drawing, the palace was a long, two-story building with 23 window bays and a raised central projection with a triangular gable.

In front of the Fitz-Ritter Winery at Weinstraße Nord 51 in Bad Dürkheim, there is a round, Baroque sandstone guardhouse that was moved from the nearby palace ruins.