Middle Ages Urach Palace, built beginning in 1443, is a modest half-timber building on a high stone ground floor. A large hipped roof covers the entire, rather plain building. It was erected, as was the entire palace, based on the example of the "Altes Schloss" (Old Palace) in Stuttgart built in the 14th century. It is the only preserved residential palace from the late Middle Ages in Württemberg. The representative side with visible half-timbers on the protruding flat vaulted arches was first built under Duke Herzog Christoph in the 16th century. On the inside the "Dürnitz" (Main Hall), the main and work room for the servants, takes up nearly the entire ground floor. With it an example of Gothic secular architecture has been preserved that gives an impression of the former original form of the Dürnitz in the Stuttgart Palace.
Renaissance The "Goldener Saal" (Golden Hall) at Urach Palace was built in 1474, was furnished in its current form after 1608 and is the only preserve original Renaissance room in a palace of the Württemberg dynasty. The light-flooded hall with its clear, rectangular floor plan is luxuriously appointed. Four columns with Corinthian capitals support the wooden ceiling, rich paintings, elaborately carved door frames and a magnificent oven with decorative ornaments such as scrolls, volutes, columns and obelisks complete the impressive room.
Rokoko Around 1765 to 70 The "Weißer Saal" (White Hall) was adorned with rich ornamental wall and ceiling plasterwork and used as a dining and music hall under Duke Carl Eugen. The "sopraporte" (ornamental area above a door) and wall sections show scenes concerned with hunting, music and a shepherd's life surrounded by blossoms and leaf fronds and reflecting the cheerful joy of living that characterized the Rococo.