Fasanenschlösschen and the Chinese Pavilions, Karlsruhe

Fasanenschlösschen and the Chinese Pavilions, Karlsruhe

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Fasanenschlösschen and the Chinese Pavilions, Karlsruhe

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Location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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January 29, 2017

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The Pheasant Palace is one of the oldest buildings in Karlsruhe. It is located on Richard-Willstätter-Allee and today houses the Forestry Education Center (FBZ).

In 1711, even before the laying of the foundation stone of Karlsruhe Palace and the founding of Karlsruhe, Margrave Karl Wilhelm had a game park, the Pheasant Garden, created in the Hardtwald Forest. In 1714, he first had a wooden hunting lodge built. In 1764/1765, this was replaced by the present-day Pheasant Palace under Margrave Karl Friedrich. The palace's architect was Albrecht Friedrich von Kesslau.

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Micha

February 23, 2025

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A beautiful baroque palace with two Chinese pavilions facing each other.

When it was built approximately 260 years ago, this was a pheasant garden serving as a hunting and game park, and the ground floor of the palace actually housed the pheasants' breeding quarters.

However, the building was soon used for social purposes, and the pheasants had to breed elsewhere. Today, the building houses the Forestry Education Center.

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Markus

June 4, 2019

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Once, the Fasanenschlösschen was built as a pleasure and teahouse in the Chinese style. Initially, the building was used for the rearing of pheasants until it was converted in 1773 in the course of the transformation of the castle garden to an English landscape garden.

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