LADIES OF THE HAREM AND WOMEN OF LOW RANKANECDOTES

Anywhere people live, stories arise - even in Rastatt. Most are about women - the loved and the rejected, real and imagined. Famous French author Alexandre Dumas wrote about women of the Orient, and cats.

Portrait of August Georg, Frans van Stampart, 1724. Image: Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Baden-Württemberg, Arnim Weischer

A DESPERATE MOTHER

The spiritual path that Sibylla Augusta had selected for August Georg did not suit the fun-loving prince.

A canon with affairs

Layout of Rastatt Palace and garden from 1798. Image: Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Baden-Württemberg, Arnim Weischer

BETWEEN TRUTH AND MYTH

The writer, Dumas, was at Rastatt Palace in 1838 and heard fanciful stories about ladies of a harem and velvet paws.

Alexandre Dumas

View into the third story at Rastatt Residential Palace. Image: Landesmedienzentrum Baden-Württemberg, credit unknown

GHOSTLY INSIGHTS

No palace without its ghosts: Who haunts the halls of the residence? The White Lady? Or someone else? Ghost hunters investigated...

Palace ghosts?