En un regard
Le château en bref
Schloss Stutensee, in the centre of the municipality of Stutensee near Karlsruhe, is a Baroque hunting lodge in the style of French classicism. A first half-timbered pavilion with an octagonal dome was built in 1721 by Margrave Karl Wilhelm between the stables of the stud farm founded in 1652, from which the place takes its name. In 1749 Margrave Karl Friedrich of Baden had it rebuilt in stone to plans by the Italian architect Leopoldo Retti, reusing stones from the nearby moated castle of Staffort, destroyed by French troops in 1676 and 1689. Surrounded by a garden with old oaks, some registered as natural monuments, the palace now houses a youth welfare facility, Schloss Stutensee gGmbH, backed by the district of Karlsruhe.