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Line 8: ==Origins== [[File:Schloss Mannheim 1725 v J C Froimon.jpg\|left\|thumb\|Layout of the [[Mannheim Palace]] in 1725]] The city of Mannheim, founded in 1606, was fortified and at the present site of the castle there was a fortress called ''Friedrichsburg'', sometimes serving as alternative residence for the Elector, one of the most important territorial princes of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. Line 15: Construction was commenced solemnly on June 2, 1720. The building process was intended to cost about 300,000 [[Guilder\|Gulden]], financed by an extraordinary “palace tax”, but in the end, the palace cost about 2 million Gulden and severely worsened the Palatinate's financial situation. The first administrative institutions began using the palace in 1725, but Karl Philip was able to transfer his court to the new residence only in 1731. Construction was not completed until 1760. Karl Philip died in 1742 and was succeeded by a distant relative, the young [[Count Palatine]] of [[Sulzbach am Main\|Sulzbach]] and later Duke of Bavaria [[Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria\|~~Karl~~Charles Theodor]]. During his reign, the palace and the city of Mannheim saw their zenith. The glamour of the Elector's court and Mannheim's then famous cultural life lasted until 1778, when Karl Theodor became Elector of [[Bavaria]] by inheritance and he moved his court to [[Munich]]. Although Mannheim kept the title of “residence”, the palace was used merely as accommodation for several administrative bodies. Things worsened further during the [[Napoleonic Wars]], when Mannheim was besieged. During [[Napoleon I of France\|Napoleon]]'s reorganization of Germany, the [[Electorate of the Palatinate]] was split up and Mannheim became part of the [[Grand Duchy]] of [[Baden]], thus losing its capital/residence status. Some glamour returned to Mannheim Palace when [[Stéphanie de Beauharnais]], the consort of Grand Duke [[Karl, Grand Duke of Baden\|Karl of Baden]], resided here after 1806. For most of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the palace served no uniform purpose, being used as a representative building and a museum for the city.

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