Residence Palace Arolsen
The Residence Palace has been built in the years 1713-1728 in the Baroque style. Palace and town Bad Arolsen owe their origin to the plans of the sovereign Friedrich Anton Ulrich zu Waldeck (1676-1728), who was elevated into the princely rank of the Holy Roman Empire in 1711. The church-village Arolsen is mentioned for the first time in 1131 on the occasion of the donation of an Augustinian convent. The convent is being secularised in 15260-30, the earls of Waldeck take possession of it and convert it into a palace.
The convent-palace started to be torn down by 1710. From 1713 onwards the new Baroque building was created, adhering to the plans of the building director Julius Ludwig Rothweil. His most important co-worker was the plasterer Andreas Gallasini.
On the 13.09.1720 the sovereign couple moved solemnly into the palace. The ceiling paintings by the Italian Carlo Ludovici Castelli were done in the years 1721-22. The Kasseler painter Magnus de Quitter painted in 1721 the Supraporten in the "Pfalz" and "crown-prince" rooms.
The palace chapel in the eastern outer pavilion was inaugurated in 1728. After the death of sovereign Friedrich Anton Ulrich the sovereign Carl (1728-63) came into power. With the design of the audience room for the sovereign's wife (red salon) the Rococo in Arolsen reaches its apex.
