It was in this special ambience with its banqueting hall, salons, Goethe pavilion and garden that Oberhofmarschall von Schardt received the court's guests. Charlotte von Stein spent her childhood and youth in a house that her father Johann Wilhelm Christian von Schardt converted into an important baroque city palace. A visit to Palais Schardt offers fascinating insights into the world of the Weimar court more than 250 years ago. The palace contains sights from the Renaissance to Art Nouveau.