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II. - Schloss Schwetzingen

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Contents<br />

I. Introduction 7<br />

<strong>II</strong>. <strong>Schwetzingen</strong> – A Prince Elector’s Eighteenth-Century Summer Residence 9<br />

a) Elector Carl Theodor and his Palatinate – a World in Transition (Stefan Mörz) 9<br />

b) The Summer Residence of <strong>Schwetzingen</strong> – a Type and its Realization<br />

(Ralf Richard Wagner) 14<br />

c) The palace Gardens – a Unique Ensemble of Masonic Images (Monika Scholl) 20<br />

d) The Bathhouse – Synthesis of the Arts and Refuge of<br />

Elector Carl Theodor (Ralf Richard Wagner) 36<br />

e) The Mosque – an Embodiment of Eighteenth-Century Taste and Thought<br />

(Susan Richter) 46<br />

f) The Arabic Insriptions of the Mosque – a Manifestation of Inter-Cultural<br />

Dialogue (Udo Simon) 55<br />

g) The Palace Theatre – the Ideal of an Eighteenth-Century Theatre and Opera<br />

House (Monika Scholl, Peter Thoma) 63<br />

h) The Waterworks and Carl Theodor’s Scientifi c Experiments – Technical<br />

Monuments of the Highest Order (Kai Budde) 68<br />

i) The Palace Garden Arboreta – a Botanical Research Station (Rainer Stripf) 75<br />

j) Harmonious Opposites: Carl Theodor’s Garden – Absolutist Display and<br />

Utopian Idealism (Barbara Brähler) 81

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