Ludwigsburg - Landgut Marienwahl 03
When Prince Wilhelm purchased Villa Marienwahl in 1878, he had just become a father. At the request of his wife Marie, the couple did not live in the Crown Prince building, nor in the Ludwigsburg Castle, but in the relatively modest villa built in 1826 by Freiherr Friedrich von Varnbühler. Since then it has been called the Marienwahl.
The villa was rebuilt and re-furnished according to the needs of the couple of princes. Special features include the so-called Arab room, whose ceiling paintings are still preserved today. In this room were also stored objects which had arrived in Württemberg with the horses imported from the Orient as guest gifts, among them rifles of Indian origin and firearms.
The last king of Württemberg left the Marian election as the private property of his daughter Pauline, who spent a large part of her teenage years there. Just like her father, she loved the animals and began her own horse breeding in 1906.
Ludwigsburg - Landgut Marienwahl 03
When Prince Wilhelm purchased Villa Marienwahl in 1878, he had just become a father. At the request of his wife Marie, the couple did not live in the Crown Prince building, nor in the Ludwigsburg Castle, but in the relatively modest villa built in 1826 by Freiherr Friedrich von Varnbühler. Since then it has been called the Marienwahl.
The villa was rebuilt and re-furnished according to the needs of the couple of princes. Special features include the so-called Arab room, whose ceiling paintings are still preserved today. In this room were also stored objects which had arrived in Württemberg with the horses imported from the Orient as guest gifts, among them rifles of Indian origin and firearms.
The last king of Württemberg left the Marian election as the private property of his daughter Pauline, who spent a large part of her teenage years there. Just like her father, she loved the animals and began her own horse breeding in 1906.