Day 8 - Ludwigsburg

 6.23.23

This morning we met at the school at 7:45 to begin our adventure to Ludwigsburg Palace. We took a few public transits but we also had to walk down some narrow roads full of fast-moving bikers. We had a great time walking in a single file line yelling, “Achtung! Fahrrad! (Attention! Bikers!),” and sending it along the chain every time a biker approached. 





Once we arrived at the palace we could snap some pictures of the courtyard and the outside of the palace. However, pictures were completely forbidden inside. 

Most agreed that the Ludwigsburg Palace was way more elegant than the Marksburg Castle we visited earlier this week. The palace had over 400 rooms (we only visited 24) and included two churches, a Catholic and a Protestant one. The Ludwigsburg Palace, which means “Louis’s castle,” was originally built as a hunting cabin for Eberhard Louis, the Duke of Württemberg, so that he could get away for the weekend. However, Ludwigsburg kept growing and growing until the Duke finally moved there as a permanent home. The architect of the palace was a French man named Donato Giuseppe Frisoni. Unfortunately, the palace was finally finished in 1733, the year the Duke died. But although the Duke never actually got to live in his fully built palace, a few of his heirs certainly did. One of the great points of pride of the Ludwigsburg Palace is that it is one of the biggest historical buildings never to be destroyed during WW2.



After touring the palace we made our way out to the Blühendes Barock. We walked through some beautiful gardens and ate some lunch. We enjoyed the fun but frightening Märchengarten(fairytale garden) which was basically a playground full of the Grimm brothers’ stories. Some of us got lost in the bush maze. We also ventured into a bird garden as well as an insect garden. For the last part, we visited the glamorous flower gardens in front of the palace. Finally, we headed back to our homes.







 









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