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Rastatt Residential Palace
The first Baroque residence on the Upper Rhine

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.

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.

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
Rastatt Residential Palace, southern staircase

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?