En un regard
Le château en bref
The Trippstadter Schloss overlooks the village of Trippstadt in the Palatinate (Rhineland-Palatinate). Built by the architect Sigmund Jakob Haeckher for Franz Karl von Hacke, Palatine master of the hunt, and his wife Amöna Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler, it was completed in 1767 under the name Maison de la Campagne. This single Baroque wing, about 48 m long, has a cellar, two floors and a dormer level. The French garden is said to have been designed around 1780 by Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell. A water tunnel of some 300 m, also listed, supplied the castle and village until 1965. Partly destroyed by French revolutionary troops in 1794, the castle was rebuilt from 1885 under Bavarian rule to house a forestry office and later a forestry school. Today it is the seat of the forestry research institute of Rhineland-Palatinate, and its 4-hectare garden is a public park.