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Ludwigsburg Palace, nicknamed the "Versailles of Swabia", is a 452-room palace complex of 18 buildings located in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its total area, including the gardens, is 32 ha (79 acres) – the largest palatial estate in the country. The palace has four wings: the northern wing, the Alter Hauptbau, is the oldest and was used as a residence of the Duke of Württemberg; the east and west wings were used for court purposes and housing guests and courtiers; the southern wing, the Neuer Hauptbau, was built to house more court functions and was later used as a residence.

Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, appointed Philipp Joseph Jenisch to direct the work, and construction began in 1704. In 1707, Jenisch was replaced by Johann Friedrich Nette, who completed most of the palace and surrounding gardens. Nette died in 1714, and Donato Giuseppe Frisoni finished much of the palace façades. In the final year of construction, Eberhard Louis died, and the Neue Hauptbau's interiors were left incomplete. Charles Eugene's court architect, Philippe de La Guêpière, completed and refurbished parts of the New Hauptbau in the Rococo style, especially the palace theatre. Charles Eugene abandoned the palace for Stuttgart in 1775. Duke Frederick II, later King Frederick I, began using Ludwigsburg as his summer residence in the last years of Charles Eugene's reign. Frederick and his wife Charlotte, Princess Royal, resided at Ludwigsburg and employed Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret to renovate the palace in the Neoclassical style. Thouret converted much of Ludwigsburg's interiors over the reign of Frederick and the later life of Charlotte. As a result of each architect's work, Ludwigsburg is a combination of Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical, and Empire style architecture. (Full article...)

• 1808 – Birth of rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
• 1819 – Birth of composer Jacques Offenbach
• 1887 – Birth of artist Kurt Schwitters
• 1940 – Birth of theologian Eugen Drewermann
• 1941 – Birth of astronaut Ulf Merbold, first West German in space

• ... that Beethoven's "Tremate, empi, tremate" was not performed for ten years after it was written?
• ... that the 1935 Free City of Danzig parliamentary election was seen as a setback for the Nazi Party, even though it won an absolute majority of seats?
• ... that every year in July, a whole German town is taken over by the Rudolstadt Festival and swept up in "folk fever"?
• ... that the pianist Alide Topp (pictured) once responded to claims that women lacked the "biceps of a man" for great music by stating she broke her pianos as well as any man?
• ... that Bernhard Waldenfels discussed "black holes of everyday life" in a book subtitled Challenges of Phenomenology?
• ... that Agostino Steffani missed the 1709 premiere of his opera Amor vien dal destino because he was in Rome mediating between the pope and the emperor?
• ... that Ruth Wagner, the minister of culture in Hesse from 1999 to 2003, was nicknamed Mother Courage of Hesse?
• ... that mathematician Grete Hermann wrote political philosophy articles for Der Funke and Sozialistische Warte under various pseudonyms during the German resistance to Nazism?
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16 June 2026 – 2026 FIFA World Cup

In association football, Argentine forward and captain Lionel Messi becomes the first male player to appear in six FIFA World Cups and joins Germany's Miroslav Klose as the tournament's all-time leading scorer with 16 goals after scoring a hat-trick in Argentina's 3–0 win against Algeria in their opening match. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)

14 June 2026 – 2026 FIFA World Cup, Curaçao at the FIFA World Cup

In association football, Curaçao, the smallest nation to qualify for a FIFA World Cup, make their tournament debut and score their first-ever goal in a 7–1 defeat against Germany. (Yahoo! Sports)

8 June 2026 – Sudanese civil war

A U.S.-led coalition consisting of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, and the United Kingdom endorses a civilian-led political dialogue for Sudan to end the war under the facilitation of the African Union, the Arab League, the European Union, IGAD, and the United Nations. (Capital FM Kenya) (Radio Tamazuj)

6 June 2026 – 2026 Ebola epidemic

The American physician who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is discharged from the Charité hospital in Berlin, Germany. (The Independent)

3 June 2026 –

German filmmaker Wim Wenders withdraws his 1975 film The Wrong Move from distribution after actress Nastassja Kinski objected to a nude scene filmed when she was 13 years old, calling for the film to be re-edited. (AP)

Sauerbraten (pronounced [ˈzaʊ̯ɐˌbʁaːtn̩] ^ⓘ) is a traditional German roast of heavily marinated meat. It is regarded as a national dish of Germany, and is frequently served in German-style restaurants internationally. It can be cooked from a variety of meats, most often from beef, but also from chicken, lamb and mutton, pork and horse. Before cooking, the raw meat is marinated for 5 to 15 days in a mixture of wine or vinegar, water, herbs, spices, and seasonings. Usually, tougher cuts of meat, such as rump roast or bottom round of beef, are used, and the long marinating tenderizes the meat. A Sauerbraten dinner is almost always accompanied by a hearty gravy resulting from its roasting and is most often served with potato pancakes (Kartoffelpuffer), potato dumplings (Kartoffelklöße), or Spätzle.