Rastede Palace

The Hereditary Prince's Palace is a palace on the opposite side of Rastede Castle in Rastede, Ammerland, near Oldenburg. It was acquired in 1822 by Peter Friedrich Ludwig from the ducal travel marshal Schmettau, who had previously used it as a country house. The Duke had the building converted for his son, Hereditary Prince Paul Friedrich August, in the classical style and had an English landscape garden laid out.

In 1882, Paul Friedrich August's son, the then Grand Duke Nikolaus Friedrich Peter, had the building converted in the Historicist style during the second half of the 19th century, in keeping with the spirit of the times. This stylistic appearance has been preserved to this day. After a restoration in the 1980s, the community-owned palace serves the citizens of Rastede as a cultural center and event venue (Palais Rastede). Among other things, it houses the municipal archive.

Friedrich August II's daughter, Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg, who was married to Eitel Friedrich Prince of Prussia, the second eldest son of Emperor Wilhelm II, also lived here after she separated from him in 1926. It was also referred to as the Palace House.