A change of plans
As in other pleasure palaces and hunting lodges, the viewing platform at the highest point of Solitude Palace was planned from the very beginning. Yet in contrast to the present structure, there was apparently a higher, tower-like round building on the cupola in the 18th century, which is now known only through several drawings. A similar viewing platform, though carried out as a flat roofed structure, can be visited on the roof of Favorite Palace in Ludwigsburg.