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The palace’s rectangular main building, a plastered structure with nine window bays and a mansard roof, had four stories on its western side and two on the eastern side due to its sloping location. Two ramps led to a grassy parterre on the west side, enclosed by a small guardhouse. Two mansard-roofed
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Ludwig succeeded his father as ruler of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1768. Together with his first minister, Friedrich Karl von Moser, he reformed the state based on the
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outbuildings created an honorary courtyard on the eastern side. To the south, parallel to one of the ramps, stood a long structure that housed stables and a barn. In 1763, the side buildings were replaced by square pavilions, and the guardhouse was expanded into the main guard post.
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