Rastatt Palace

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Rastatt Palace Description

Rastatt Palace is an imposing Baroque building closely modeled on Versailles, with a garden front 230m/250yds long, which incorporates the adjoining town center in its axis of symmetry. The interior decoration was the work of Italian artists. In the sumptuous palace church (by M. L. Rohrer, 1719-23) is the tomb of Margravine Sibylla Augusta (d. 1733).

Hobbies & Activities category: Significant work of art; Castle, chateau, palace; Garden or botanic display; Historical museum; Tombs, burial site

Rastatt Palace Highlights

Freedom Museum

The Freedom Museum in Rastatt Palace is devoted to the various freedom movements in the course of German history, with particular emphasis on the revolutions of 1789-90 and 1848-49.

Local Museum

In a former Kavaliershaus (lodgings for members of the court) in Rastatt Palace is the Heimatmuseum (history of the town and surrounding area since prehistoric times, revolutionary history, Gothic and Baroque sculpture, astronomical clock).

Military Museum

The most important of the museums housed in the Rastatt Palace is the Military Museum, which illustrates German military history from the Middle Ages to the present day (uniforms, arms and armor, military decorations).

Address

Rastatt Tourist Office
Kapellenstrasse 20-22
D-76437 Rastatt
Germany

http://www.rastatt.de

Hours

April 1 to October 31

Open	Closed	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00
Closed		17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00

November 1 to March 31

Open	Closed	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00
Closed		16:00	16:00	16:00	16:00	16:00	16:00