The museum gate was built around 1705 and separated the palace park from the bourgeois town. Originally, a "museum" for Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm's Turkish booty was to be set up in this area of the palace.
The museum gate is located at the end of Poststrasse in Rastatt and leads into the palace garden. In front of the museum gate is the work of art 'Homage to Picasso', a fountain by sculptor Jürgen Goertz. It has been located here since 1981.
Children discover Rastatt:
At the museum gate, the entrance to the palace garden, there was a large iron gate and perhaps even a gate guard. Anyone who was not important was not allowed to enter the palace garden.
The pagoda castle was also part of the palace garden, which shows that everything was much larger than it is today. Curious citizens of Rastatt were able to take a look at the baroque garden and the ladies-in-waiting and cavaliers through the window grilles of the museum gate.
The margrave's castle guard regulated access to the castle. Only invited visitors were allowed to enter the castle grounds. It often happened that strangers approached the castle at night. They probably wanted to find out how the castle was guarded. This was important information for the enemy, who had their border fortress just a few kilometers away. Ludwig, the town mouse, can tell you about an adventure with a French spy.
