Schloss Rastatt

The palace and the garden were built between 1700 and 1707 by the Italian architect Domenico Egidio Rossi for Margrave Louis William of Baden-Baden.

During the Palatine war of succession, the residence of Margrave Louis William of Baden-Baden had been burnt by French troops.

Since he also needed a home for his wife Sibylle Auguste of Saxe-Lauenburg, whom he had married in 1690, the Margrave had a new residence built in place of the former hunting lodge.

It is now owned by the State of Baden-Württemberg, and visitors can take guided tours of the restored rooms and Baroque gardens.

It is decorated with numerous frescoes and shows paintings of ancestors and of captured Ottoman soldiers.