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FROM A STABLE TO A STUNNING CASTLE.In the center of the city of Stuttgart there are very few features of the old city that dates from the beginning of the century after Christ, and that is that the second world war that left the city destroyed by 85%, plus the different renovations and Architectural development updates have been erasing most of the old buildings from their streets.
But it was essential to conserve one of the most representative architectural structures of the city, this is the old castle, which after its reconstruction after the total destruction in the second world war, tried to maintain the original design of both the castle and the its surroundings, with that Renaissance style with brush strokes of the medieval era that characterized it in its beginnings. The history of the castle begins with the history of the city itself, around 950 AD. Otto I, known as Oton the Great, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, after bloody and constant confrontations against the Hungarians, realized that the lack of a stable stalled him at a disadvantage and was decisive for the fighting a stable, the lack of mounted soldiers made his army more vulnerable against his enemies, that is why entrusting the mission to one of his sons Luidolf, who would become the Duke of Swabia, to find a solution and build a stable worthy of Your army.
Luidolf found the perfect place in the Nesenbach Valley. The Nesenbach is a small river that descends from the hills in Vaihigen, a small village to the south of the current city of Stuttgart, its flow surrounded by three hills was the perfect topography since these create a natural fence in a large enough extension of earth for the breeding of horses, their reproduction and training. It was then that his first house was built next to his barn. Initially the house was more for the administration focused on horse breeding, but over time the needs were developing the necessary infrastructure also for the collaborators. For some time even despite the little cause of the river in the dry season, the castle came to have an alcubilla that surrounded the structure and helped the storage of water. It was until the end of the 17th century that the castle had its last remodeling by Duke Christoph who already at the time of the Renaissance decided to change the design that went from the medieval to the Renaissance, with much more comfort than in his previous centuries. This is how the design finally remains until today, This palace was the residence of the Counts and Dukes of Wurttemberg until the new palace was built next to it in the time of the Woldtemberg reign, but then the castle became part of offices administrative and housing for collaborators of the King, as for example the Stauffenberg brothers who grew up in the corridors of this imposing castle, the person in charge of the attack against hitler was brought up there and for what there is currently a section of the museum within the catillo dedicated to such an important character in the history of Baden-Württemberg and Germany.
In the year 1933 the castle suffered a fire, the infrastructure was under fire for more than a week, but then it was rebuilt again, to later suffer its last and most devastating attack during the Second World War, but since the 60s after its reconstruction its internal walls shelter since then the Wurttemberg museum. Currently in the museum different social and cultural activities are developed, the acoustics of the place makes it very special for concerts within its central square, events with international recognition as the Jazz Open of Stuttagart that takes place during a week every summer. |
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