 The main door to the original house features an angel's head, which in the local folklore is said to represent the young Ludwig.Their mother, Gräfin Hedwig Sophie, moved her residence to the Ludwigsburg in 1725.Later descendants of what was called the line of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg became officers in service of the Russian czar, and the house eventually passed out of the family.