District Court

The present District Court was built in 1725 as the Prinzenhaus (princes’ house). In 1753 it became the envoys’ house, and from 1766 on it served as the residence of the director of the palatinate works and gardens, Nicolas de Pigage, and of his successors, Friedrich Ludwig Sckell (from 1796) and Johann Michael Zeyher (from 1804). The Alemannic poet Johann Peter Hebel died here on 22 September 1826.