Wilhelmspalais
The Wilhelmspalais is on Charlotte Square in the center of Stuttgart standing Palais . It was the residence of the last King of Württemberg, Wilhelm II. In 1944 the building was destroyed to the ground and rebuilt after the war. From 1965 to 2011 it housed the central library of the Stuttgart city library . The StadtPalais of the Stuttgart City Museum has been housed there since April 2018 .
history
The Wilhelmspalais was built from 1834 to 1840 by Giovanni Salucci , the court architect of King Wilhelm I of Württemberg in the classicist style. The king wanted to use it as a residence for his two eldest daughters, the princesses Marie and Sophie. The interior design was done by Ludwig von Zanth .
Wilhelm's grandson, King Wilhelm II of Württemberg, lived in the palace from 1887 to 1918. On November 9, 1918, revolutionaries broke into the house. On November 30, 1918, the king abdicated. In 1929 the building came into the possession of the city of Stuttgart and was used for various purposes. From 1933, during the Nazi era , the palace was the seat of the Security Service (SD) Southwest . From 1936 onwards, it was converted into a “Memorial to the Achievements of Germans Abroad” and a “Museum of Ethnicity”. In 1944, the building was destroyed to the ground in the aerial warfare.
Between 1961 and 1965, Wilhelm Tiedje's Wilhelmspalais was rebuilt in a modern style. After that it housed the Stuttgart City Archives and the Stuttgart City Library . Under the name of Eduard Mörike and his friends , there were 1965 to 1991 an exhibition of the collection of Dr. Fritz Kauffmann in the Palais, which was accessible with free admission.
In 2011 the city library moved to the city library on Mailänder Platz in the Europaviertel and it was temporarily used before the renovation work on the Stuttgart City Palace began . The Wilhelmspalais was operated as a café / bar and young artists and bands performed regularly. The subsequent renovation according to the plans of the Stuttgart architects Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei and Jangled Nerves began at the beginning of 2014, the opening of the new city museum took place on April 14, 2018.
In the southeast corner of the building there is a bronze monument to Wilhelm II, the last king of Württemberg, a work by H.– C. Zimmerle in 1991.
Web links
- Search for Wilhelmspalais in the German Digital Library
- Search for Wilhelmspalais Stuttgart in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Interesting facts about the Wilhelmspalais at stuttgart.de
- New city library open to visitors
- History of the palace on the website of the Stuttgart City Museum
- Virtual tour taken by Heiko Stachel
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelmspalais Stuttgart - monument as the seat of the future city museum. December 8, 2018, accessed December 8, 2018 .
- ↑ History | StadtPalais - Museum for Stuttgart. December 8, 2018, accessed December 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Memorial of the German achievement abroad inauguration on August 27, 1936 - Stuttgart - detail page - LEO-BW. December 8, 2018, accessed December 8, 2018 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 34 " N , 9 ° 11 ′ 3" E