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2 unusual facts about Mannheim Palace


Mannheim 1914 chess tournament

The tournament took place in the "Ballhaus", a building situated in the Mannheim Palace garden area.

Mannheim Palace

The building process was intended to cost about 300,000 Gulden, financed by an extraordinary “palace tax”, but in the end, the palace cost about 2,000,000 Gulden and severely worsened the Palatinate's financial situation.


Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria

Charles Theodore’s chief architect Nicolas de Pigage was charged to complete the Mannheim Palace, design the Schlosstheater and the gardens at Schwetzingen Palace ( including numerous pavilions, among them several artificial “Roman” ruins and a “mosque”) as well as Benrath palace.

French Baroque architecture

Mannheim, Nordkirchen and Drottningholm were among many foreign residences for which Versailles provided a model.

William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton

In 1843 at the Mannheim Palace, he married Princess Marie Amélie of Baden, daughter of the Grand Duke Charles of Baden and Stéphanie de Beauharnais, the adopted daughter of Napoleon I.


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