My Trip to Wolfenbüttel

Last Friday I was again in Wolfenbüttel, as just when returned from my last trip there, a new special exhibition opened in the Schloss.

The Schloss Wolfenbüttel is the second-largest surviving castle in Lower Saxony and served as the main residence for the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel between 1432 and 1753. It is now used by a secondary school, the Federal Academy of Arts Education and a museum.

At the Schloss I also found a card of a reconstruction of Schloss Salzdahlum.

Schloss Salzdahlum was built as summer palace by Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel between 1688 and 1694. It was a centre of Baroque culture in Northern Germany and was modelled after the Palace of Versailles, but to save money it was mainly built from wood. In 1813 however the palace was destroyed, as it did not resist the weather and was mostly ruinous. Its extensive art collection was the foundation for the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig.