About this place
Schlossplatz is the largest and most representative square in central Stuttgart, a wide public space that grew out of an 18th-century ducal parade ground into the elegant landscaped plaza of today. Its dominant feature is the Neues Schloss, the New Palace, a vast Baroque residence begun in 1746 for Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg and one of the last great palaces of its kind in Germany. At the square's centre rises the roughly thirty-metre Jubilee Column, crowned by the gilded goddess Concordia and flanked by two ornamental fountains and a delicate cast-iron music pavilion. Ringed by the Königsbau colonnade, the art museum and the leafy Schlossgarten, the square is where Stuttgart gathers to celebrate, protest, and simply linger on the grass beneath the vine-covered hills that cradle the city.
Key facts
- 1746 year — Duke Carl Eugen laid the cornerstone of the Neues Schloss, one of Germany's last great Baroque palaces
- 365 rooms — The New Palace once held more than three hundred and sixty rooms as a ducal and royal residence
- 30 meters — The Jubilee Column at the square's centre rises about thirty metres, topped by the goddess Concordia
📍 Schlossplatz 4, 70173, Stuttgart