The church of Mannheim Palace, built between 1733 and 1760, is one of the outstanding Baroque church buildings on the Upper Rhine. On the interior the walls, stuccowork, sculptures and ceiling paintings merge to form a three-dimensional impression, and the illusion of opening into a heavenly endlessness is achieved with the ingenious design of all parts of the room.
The "Cabinet Library" (Kabinettsbibliothek) of Electress Elisabeth Augusta is a showpiece of rococo architecture in the Palatinate Electorate. The charming room was built in the middle of the 18th century and is the only room of the palace to be preserved in its near original state. This intimate refuge impresses with the playful interaction of architecture, sculpture, painting and ornamentation that merge to form a homogenous whole. The cheerful, inspiring atmosphere is reflected in all motifs, primarily from the world of the antique gods.
After the hereditary prince Karl and his wife Stephanie of Baden had been given Mannheim Palace as their family seat, the later Grand Duchess had several rooms renovated in the western wing of the Court of Honor (Ehrenhof). These residential rooms were decorated in the Empire style, the style of the French empire, with classicistic friezes and pilaster fillings with motifs imitating classical antiquity, and furnished with modern Empire furnishings. These also included a magnificent bed for Stephanie.