Schloss Augustenburg

En un regard

Le château en bref

A former residence of the Margraves of Baden-Durlach, the Augustenburg stands in Grötzingen, a district of Karlsruhe since 1974. This small residence was built in the 16th century, around 1553, when Margrave Charles II made Durlach his main seat in 1556; the door of the stair tower bears the date 1564. In 1676 Margrave Friedrich Magnus gave it to his wife, and it has been known as the Augustenburg ever since. Passing into private hands in the 19th century, it housed painters of the Grötzingen colony after its purchase by Otto Fikentscher, among them Gustav Kampmann, Karl Biese and Franz Hein, hence Grötzingen's nickname “painters' village”. Listed as a cultural monument of special importance, the complex now houses a senior centre; in 2019 the City of Karlsruhe examined a project to renovate and extend the site.