941 |
A simple water-surrounded castle is built by Luitolf von Schwaben to protect the stud farm |
1227 |
The owners of the castle, the margraves of Baden, raised the settlement of Stuttgart to a town |
1250 |
Stuttgart and the castle fall to the Württemberg dynasty |
1311 |
The counts of Württemberg move their seat from the destroyed ancestral castle on Württemberg Mountain to the Old Palace (Altes Schloss) |
1533 |
Duke Christoph von Württemberg has the castle expanded to a palace |
1560 |
All work on the Main Hall (Dürnitz) is completed |
1562 |
The Palace Church (Schlosskirche) is consecrated |
1572 |
Duke Ludwig has the Palace Church enlarged End of 16th cent. What is today Schiller Square (Schillerplatz) is built in front of the Old Palace |
1777 |
The bridges over the filled-in palace moat are torn down |
1931 |
The Old Palace burns |
1944 |
The Old Palace is partially destroyed by bombing raids |
1948 -1970 |
The Old Palace is rebuilt for the Württemberg State Museum (Württembergisches Landesmuseum) |