The

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palace Schloss Belvedere on the outskirts of

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,The more famous

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is located in Vienna. is a pleasure-house (''

Lustschloss In Renaissance and Early Modern German architecture, a ''Lustschloss'' (, both meaning "pleasure palace") is a country house, château, or palace which served the private pleasure of its owner, and was seasonally inhabited as a respite from ...

'') built for house-parties, built in 1724–1732 to designs of Johann August Richter and Gottfried Heinrich Krohne for Ernst August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. The ''

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'' is flanked by symmetrical

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s. Today it houses part of the art collections of Weimar, with

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s and

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, furniture and paintings of the eighteenth century. As the summer residence, its gardens, laid out in the French style in 1728–1748, were an essential amenity. A wing of the

Orangery An orangery or orangerie is a room or dedicated building, historically where orange and other fruit trees are protected during the winter, as a large form of greenhouse or conservatory. In the modern day an orangery could refer to either ...

in the ''Schlosspark'' contains a collection of historical

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s. After 1811, much of the outer gardens was altered to conform to the

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style, as an ''Englischer Garten'', for Grand Duke Carl Friedrich, who died at Belvedere in 1853. The enriched collection of exotic plants was published as ''Hortus Belvedereanus'' in 1820. Because of its testimony to the cultural influence of Weimar during the height of

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in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Schloss Belvedere was inscribed on the

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in 1998 as part of the Classical Weimar site.

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