The Corner State Room marks the beginning of the State Apartment. Its end and culmination is the Audience Chamber with the Throne Ensemble. This great hall was the largest of the whole suite. During the 1719 wedding, it was where the royal couple first welcomed the bride to the palace. The public meal shared by King August the Strong, Queen Christiane Eberhardine, and the bridal couple, also took place in here.
In the run-up to the wedding celebrations in 1719, the hall’s ceiling was raised and the windows enlarged. Then it was festively decked with, among other things, crimson velvet wall hangings with galloon trim and matching curtains. Everything was designed en suite, so the textile materials, colours and patterns were all coordinated.
There was also a large canopy in the Corner State Room. It was a symbol of sovereignty, and festive public meals often took place beneath it – including during the 1719 wedding. That was why this hall was sometimes called the Corner Dining Chamber. But less momentous audiences were also held here.
The Corner State Room is the first of the five rooms that have been faithfully reconstructed – although not as it was in 1719, but rather in the form it took after the remodelling in the late 1760s. That was when the two recesses with stucco marble cladding and the two stoves were added. The latter have been completely reconstructed
