Dagstuhl Palace
A baroque palace of 1760 at the foot of the older Dagstuhl castle near Wadern, with a chapel holding a Stations of the Cross and a crypt. Since 1989 it has housed the Leibniz Center for Informatics.
Dagstuhl Palace was built in 1760 by Count Anton von Oettingen-Soetern-Hohenbaldern, right at the foot of the older Dagstuhl castle whose ruin stands above it. After the French Revolution the estate passed to Baron Wilhelm de Lasalle von Louisenthal, whose family lived here until 1959.
The chapel holds a Stations of the Cross and an altar painting, both by Octavie de Lasalle von Louisenthal, the baron's daughter, known as the "painter countess". The crypt can be visited too.
Since 1989 the palace has been home to the Leibniz Center for Informatics, an international meeting centre for computer science. The baroque garden opposite was restored in 2001 following Octavie de Lasalle's paintings.
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