Stuttgart - Schillerplatz 
Flanking the Old Palace is Schillerplatz (underground parking lot), with a monument to Schiller by Thorvaldsen. On the northeast side of the square is the Alte Kanzlei (Old Chancery; ca. 1500).
On the northwest side stands the Prinzenbau (begun in 1605 by Schickhardt, finished a hundred years later by Matthias Weiss), which during the reign of Duke Eberhard Ludwig (1677-1733) was the residence of his heir, Prince Friedrich Ludwig; it is now occupied by the Ministry of Justice. On the southwest side of the square is the old Fruchtkasten (Granary; 1390) and adjoining it the choir of the Stiftskirche.
On the northwest side stands the Prinzenbau (begun in 1605 by Schickhardt, finished a hundred years later by Matthias Weiss), which during the reign of Duke Eberhard Ludwig (1677-1733) was the residence of his heir, Prince Friedrich Ludwig; it is now occupied by the Ministry of Justice. On the southwest side of the square is the old Fruchtkasten (Granary; 1390) and adjoining it the choir of the Stiftskirche.
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Stiftskirche
The Stiftskirche (Protestant), with its two very different towers, was founded in the 12th C. and rebuilt in Late Gothic style in the 15th C. by Aberlin Jörg and others; reconsecrated in 1958 after the repair of heavy war damage. In the choir can be seen a magnificent series of 11 Renaissance figures of Counts of Württemberg by Simon Schlör (1576-1608).
