In September 1846 the Württemberg Crown Prince Karl von Württemberg and the Grand Duchess Olga from Russia celebrated their wedding in newly built Wilhelma Palace, which mainly consisted of the Moorish house, a bath house/greenhouse building. Cast iron greenhouses were connected directly to the center tract, and these merged into iron galleries connected at right angles with domed pavilions at their ends.
In addition to the Moorish building, the Crown Prince's father, King Wilhelm I von Württemberg, after whom the complex is named, also had an "inner garden", and in 1847 a hippodrome-shaped access gallery enclosing this garden, planned and built by architect Karl Ludwig von Zanth. Behind the bath house a staircase and ramps lead to the Belvedere (pavillion at a scenic viewpoint) erected in 1851/53.
The banquet hall building stood opposite the main building, separated by a lake. The cross axis lead to the Picture Gallery (Bildersaal) and the kitchen building built in 1852/54. Behind the Banquet Hall (Festsaal) lay an adjacent canal which lead into the Halfmoon Lake (Halbmondsee), at the end of which the Damascene Hall (Damascenerhalle) was erected in 1863.
A major part of the entire complex was the "little summer theater",
which was also intended to be used to make public bathing in the
city more attractive. After Zanth's plans were accepted by the King
in 1838, construction began in 1839 and It was possible to open
in 1849. Its magnificent interior decoration with its antique-renaissance
atmosphere was restored in the 1980's after a period of misuse and
decay. Today the Wilhelma Theater is again the site of theater productions
and concerts.