The famous staircase in Bruchsal Palace, which was developed by Balthasar Neumann from an original idea of the architect Freiherr von Ritter, is praised by some as the pinnacle in the development of baroque room decoration. It makes clear the baroque concept of both merging various parts of a room with each other and of permeating a room in many ways. "Das Bruchsaler Treppenhaus war die Krone aller Treppenhäuser des Barockstils, (...) in der geistreichen Anlage und hohen Raumpoesie unerreicht". ("The staircase in Bruchsal was the queen of all staircases in the baroque style, (...) unparalleled in its brilliant design and the high poetry of the room").
From: Georg Dehio, Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Baden-Württemberg I, Munich 1993
The arrangement of the royal state-rooms in the "Corps de Logis", of the "Fürstensaal" and the "Marmorsaal" enables the visitor to follow the artistic development and the increasing splendor of the rooms from the Baroque to the Rococo. The "Fürstensaal", built from 1751, still shows a strong subdivision of the walls and ceiling with cornices, which clearly mark the transition between the two parts. In the "Marmorsaal" the walls and ceiling merge by means of architecture, stuccowork and painting to form a sophisticated unit and convey the illusion of an endless room.