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schloss ''Schloss'' (; pl. ''Schlösser''), formerly written ''Schloß'', is the German term for a building similar to a château, palace, or manor house. Related terms appear in several Germanic languages. In the Scandinavian languages, the cognate ...

'' on the outskirts of

Rastatt Rastatt () is a town with a Baroque core, District of Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in the Upper Rhine Plain on the Murg river, above its junction with the Rhine and has a population of around 50,000 (2011). Rastatt was a ...

- Förch in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

History

Built by Johann Michael Ludwig Rohrer between 1710 and 1730, it was created as a hunting lodge and '' maison de plaisance'' (pleasure palace) for Margravine Sibylla Augusta, the widow of

Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (german: links=no, Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden-Baden; 8 April 1655 – 4 January 1707) was the ruling Margrave of Baden-Baden in Germany and chief commander of the Imperial army. He was also known as ''Türken ...

(''Türkenlouis''). It was only used for several weeks per year as a summer residence, and it is not far from

Schloss Rastatt Schloss Rastatt, also known as ''Residenzschloss Rastatt'', is a Baroque '' schloss'' in Rastatt, Germany. The palace and the garden were built between 1700 and 1707 by the Italian architect Domenico Egidio Rossi for Margrave Louis William of Bade ...

. Schloss Favorite houses a large collection of Chinese

porcelain Porcelain () is a ceramic material made by heating substances, generally including materials such as kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between . The strength and translucence of porcelain, relative to other types of pottery, arises main ...

, black lacquerwork and ''Schwartz Porcelain''. It is the oldest of the German so-called "porcelain palaces", and the only one to survive intact to this day.

Gallery

Rastatt-Schloss Favorite-Hauptfassade-10-2013-gje.jpg, Remote front view FavouriteArms.JPG, Close-up of coats of arms (left:

Baden-Baden Baden-Baden () is a spa town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the Rhine, the border with Fra ...

, right:

Saxe-Lauenburg The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg (german: Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg, called ''Niedersachsen'' (Lower Saxony) between the 14th and 17th centuries), was a ''reichsfrei'' duchy that existed from 1296–1803 and again from 1814–1876 in the extreme sou ...

) and pebble dash used on walls Rastatt-Schloss Favorite-16-Detail-2006-gje.jpg, Pebbledash Rastatt-Schloss Favorite-Parkfassade-10-2006-gje.jpg, Rear view Rastatt-Schloss Favorite-Parkseite-10-Freitreppe-2006-gje.jpg, Open staircase on rear front Rastatt-Schloss Favorite-Orangerie-18-2014-gje.jpg, Orangerie Eremitage.jpg, Hermitage TuerkenLouis.JPG,

, also known as ''Türkenlouis''

Sources

*Sigrid Gensichen/Ulrike Grimm, ''Schloss Favorite Rastatt-Förch.'' Verlag K. F. Schimper, 2001,

External links

Schloss Favorite
- official website

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