Ettersburg Palace, made up of the three-winged Old Palace (1706-12), with an adjoining church to the East and fronted to the South by the main building (the New Palace: built in 1722 and renovated from 1728-40), was used as a Summer residence by Duchess Anna Amalia from 1776 to 1780. The baroque palace is surrounded by an English style landscape park. Two parterres and the six-hectare countryside park supplement the palace complex, which was also used as a hunting lodge by the Weimar dukes. In the mid 19th century, Duke Carl Alexander had the outside areas redesigned and extended by the Weimar court gardener Eduard Petzold. One of the existing avenues of an historic hunting "etoile" leading directly to the palace was converted into a long forest meadow by Prince Hermann Pueckler von Muskau together with Petzold, his student. Members of the Duchess Anna Amalia's literary and musical set - which included Wieland, Goethe, Herder amongst others - would meet up here in the Summer months. There were even performances by Goethe's amateur dramatic group: the "Weimarer Liebhabertheater".
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