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The ornately inlayed wood floors at Ludwigsburg Residential Palace had to withstand quite a bit over the centuries. Servants didn't always know how best to care for fine wood.
Ludwigsburg Residential Palace
One of the largest Baroque palaces in Germany
Original Baroque parquet flooring in the lacquer cabinet.
Treating a floor right
In the old central building, magnificent wood floors with inlayed patterns were installed in many of the rooms. However, according to a report from Lord Bethoncourt, it needed to be replaced repeatedly because "the maids dump whole buckets of water and ... sweep the valuable floors with sand." Luckily, a few of the original valuable parquet floors from the construction of the palace have survived, for example in the Chinese lacquer cabinet and in the boiserie cabinet in the hunting pavilion.
Don't forget to look down...