Prinzenbau Stuttgart

The Prinzenbau is located on Schillerplatz in Stuttgart - with three other historic neighbors: the Alte Kanzlei, the Stiftsfruchtkasten and the Stiftskirche.

Construction work on this building, which was originally only intended to close off the square to the north, lasted over 100 years. The cellar was begun by Heinrich Schickardt in 1605. The duke died soon afterwards, then the Thirty Years' War raged, and so nothing happened on the building site until 1658 - until Matthias Weis built the first floor and, over the next 15 years, the upper floors as well. Johann Friedrich Nette finally completed the building in 1715 with the Italian-style façade.

The building served as a residence for foreign envoys and housed the Kunstkammer and the Academy of Drawing until the Württemberg princes lived here from 1805 and gave the building its name. Today it houses the Ministry of Justice.