1704/1707 Modest Beginnings
The preceding buildings of Ludwigsburg Palace have not been preserved. However, the entire orientation of the palace complex goes back to the Erlachhof hunting lodge. Destroyed in the war in 1693, it is at first rebuilt. From 1699 Duke Eberhard Ludwig has two new buildings erected, which lay opposite each other where the Order Building (Ordensbau) and Giants' Building (Riesenbau) are later built. The later palace axis runs between the two buildings.
The chief architect Joseph Jenisch begins a new building, the Old Corps de logis (main building), between the two wing buildings in 1704. Under inclusion of the older buildings, this results in a modern three-wing complex with a Court of Honor (Ehrenhof). The architectural decorations in simple Renaissance forms and the interior division lack this modernity. 1707/13 Contemporary Plans