1707/13 Contemporary Plans
The ground floor of the New Corps de logis is completed when state architect Jenisch is replaced by the non-local architect Johann Friedrich Nette in 1707. Nette creates the architectural framework for the higher rank and expectations of the Duke and does not even stop at tearing down the wing buildings just recently completed in order to realize his uniform new plans.
Nette makes the plans of the palace and garden complex known in a collection of copperplate engravings. This consists of a modern three-wing complex with a horseshoe-shaped ground plan. The buildings are loosely interconnected with galleries and have the character of a hunting or pleasure palace not furnished for a longer stay of the Court. Nette brings the most modern Baroque architecture, which he had probably become familiar with at the Prussian Court, to Ludwigsburg.
The local artists are not up to the diverse decorative tasks. This brings the Italian stuccoworkers Diego Carlone and Giovanni Donato Frisoni, who worked in Prague prior to this, to Ludwigsburg. The stuccowork with the busts of the Duke on the second floor of the New Corps de logis are by Frisoni.
The decoration artists furnish the Small Marble Hall (Marmorsaletta) the Lacquer Cabinet (Lackkabinett) and the "Boiserien" Cabinet with domestic and exotic woods. Numerous painters, such as Johann of Steinfels and Lucca Colomba, also bring new decoration ideas from Bohemia and Italy to Ludwigsburg.
Built in 1709/11, the Order Building is the western wing of the complex and contains a banquet hall on the upper floor, which had been lacking up to this point. Then the Giants' Building with a magnificent staircase is constructed opposite, as the suitable rooms for the reception ceremony are lacking in the New Corps de logis. After a chapel and apartments are initially planned, another banquet hall is added in the building.
In 1712/13 Nette presents new plans for a generous expansion of the palace. Entrance towers with chimes and lateral buildings are to complete the side wings to the south. In fact, only two square pavilions are built on each side of the New Corps de logis. Only meager attempts are made to execute the imposing plans for the garden complex. 1704/1707 Modest Beginnings 1715/19 Initial Additions