Grand Ducal Palace (Heidelberg)

The Grand Ducal Palace (front) with Heidelberg Castle in the background

The Grand Ducal Palace is a building erected in 1717 and is located on Karlsplatz in Heidelberg . Today the palace is the seat of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

history

It was built around 1717 by Darmstadt architect Louis Remy de la Fosse for Philipp Karl von Hundheim († 1737). As early as 1718 he sold the shell to Adamo (Amandus) Ernst von der Sachs and his wife, née von Landsee , who completed the building. The second husband of Frau von Landsee's was Johann Ludwig Wallrad von Bettendorf . In an unexplained way, the building came into the hands of Joseph Freiherr von Deuring , who sold it in 1748 to the land clerk Ferdinand Josef Karl Theodor von Wrede , the father of Carl Philipp von Wrede . On November 12th, 1768, after checking the legality of Wrede's property, the building came into the possession of Elector Karl Theodor , who housed the land scribing in the baroque building. From 1805 it was used as a palace for the Grand Duke of Baden , who had the front of the building modernized in the classicism style. The listed building has been the seat of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 1909 .

State Office for Monument Preservation (publisher): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, city district of Heidelberg , Thorbecke-Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0426-3

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