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The west wing of the upper palace differs from the other three wing buildings in the ground plan of the ground floor: the rooms are more generous and oriented towards the inner area of the palace grounds.
The apartment comprises four main rooms that were originally intended to be entered from the west: the antechamber, the drawing room, the bedroom and the study. Behind the stately rooms there is a further relatively narrow row of very small rooms that were reserved for the servants. The stoves were fired from there. Toilet chairs, so-called “retirades”, were also placed here. The servants could enter the adjacent rooms via hidden doors.
It can be assumed that the rooms we know as the Emperor's Rooms were originally intended for a different function - perhaps as lounges for the members of the court - and that this is why the rooms were given such magnificent panelling.
Their interior decoration is today one of the extremely rare but artistically very valuable testimonies of early Neo-classicism in Saxony. The apartment had high-quality furnishings and elaborately decorated walls. Now that you can enter the full depth of the rooms, we invite you to consciously discover these state rooms and, of course, to enjoy them! But please only visually! Please do not touch anything so that the rooms remain in such good condition! Thank you very much!