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Gottesaue Palace is a small Renaissance palace in Otto-Dullenkopf Park in Karlsruhe's Oststadt district that has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. Since November 1989, it has been home to the Karlsruhe University of Music.
Gottesaue Palace was designed by Johannes Schoch (1550–1631), then master builder of Strasbourg, and was conceived as a "pleasure palace." Since its completion, it has had an extremely eventful history. After initial destruction in the War of the Palatinate Succession in 1689, it burned down to its outer walls in 1735. As the Margraves of Baden-Durlach had no interest in this castle immediately after the founding of Karlsruhe, it was rebuilt in a reduced form with a two-story structure and three-story towers and served for the next two centuries first as a fruit store for the margrave's chamber estate, from 1818 as barracks, and later by the police, before it was destroyed in a bombing raid in May 1944. For almost four decades, the ruins of the castle served as a reminder of the horrors of war before it was rebuilt in 1982 for the purposes of the **Karlsruhe University of Music**. The exterior was reconstructed in such a way that the changes it had undergone throughout its history remained visible, while the interior was transformed into a modern building for use as a **modern music college**, albeit with modern interpretations of Renaissance architecture.
After the building was completed in 1989, some of the preserved outbuildings, such as the Fuchsbau and the Marstall, were also converted for use by the University of Music, but the space is far from sufficient for the diverse requirements, so that an extension was begun in 2009.
Since 2013, the campus for the Karlsruhe University of Music **"CampusOne – Schloss Gottesaue"** has offered sufficient space for the diverse range of courses offered by the Karlsruhe University of Music with a new teaching building and a multimedia complex along with an institute wing (MUT). The new **concert hall**, the Wolfgang Rihm Forum in the MUT, has created new opportunities to expand and improve the diverse **event area**. ### **Tip** **Numerous concerts by musicians from the University of Music are held throughout the year.**
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