Johann Friedrich Nette

In 1706, Nette, at the time an engineer captain, was stationed at Balingen under the command of a Major General Sternberg. Sternberg recommended Nette to his brother-in-law Georg Friedrich von Forstner, who happened to be a friend of and Hofmarschall to Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg.^[1] Nette replaced the incumbent court architect Philipp Joseph Jenisch [de] in 1707,^[2] and with that appointment was charged with the design and construction of a retreat for the Duke north of Stuttgart. Nette began work on this residence, Ludwigsburg Palace, in 1707, though it was slow thanks to the still-ongoing War of the Spanish Succession. In 1709, the Duke instructed Nette to attach two wings to the existing structure to create a three-wing palace. Despite the war, Nette traveled to Prague in 1708 and 1709 to study Bohemian Baroque architecture and recruit artisans for Ludwigsburg.^[1][3]

On 9 December 1714, Nette died suddenly of a stroke near Nancy, in the Duchy of Lorraine.^[1]

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• Bieri, Pius. "Residenz Ludwigsburg" (in German). Süddeutscher Barock. Archived from the original on 6 June 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
• Hempel, Eberhard (1965). Baroque Art and Architecture in Central Europe. Penguin Books.