Unul dintre cele trei proiecte prezentate la 1873 lui Carol de Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen de către primul arhitect al castelului Peleş, Wilhelm von Doderer (1825-1900) şi respinse de comanditar
Historical context of the building: Peleş Castle was built at the initiative of King Carol I, to serve as his summer residence, invested with political, cultural and symbolic functions. After 1914, Peleş Castle continued to exercise its representative and museum functions, without however being inhabited for 6 months a year, as the founding sovereign used to do. Until 1947, it became a court space for official visits or hosted military ceremonies. The most important event organized in Sinaia and hosted by Peleş Castle until the abdication of King Michael, in December 1947, was linked to the celebration of the castle's semicentennial in 1933 by King Carol II (1930-1940). Between January and March 1948, the castle was closed by order of the communist authorities, and the heritage assets were inventoried. Most of the collections of paintings, furniture, textiles, decorative art and books were transferred to the Art Museum in the capital. Since May of the same year, other pieces have entered the custody of various cultural institutions in the major cities of Romania, Bucharest, Braşov, Sibiu, etc. Since 1953, the castle becomes a National Museum, open to the general public, while the other buildings located on the Peleş estate, such as the Pelişor castles, the private residence of the second royal couple, Ferdinand I, Maria and Foişor, the former hunting lodge of the first King of Romania and the residence of Kings Carol II and Michael I, will become creative and rest homes for writers, musicologists and visual artists approved by the communist regime. Two decades later, in 1975, the increasingly critical state of preservation of the building led to its closure and the evacuation of a significant part of the museum's heritage to storage facilities set up in an old manor house of the Bibescu family in Posada, a town located about 20 km south of Sinaia. Between 1966 and 1982, in a former annex of the royal castle, located near it, the Museum of Decorative Art (Ceramics) was set up, which showcased representative pieces from the old royal collections. Concurrently with the massive restoration works, the castle
hosted a series of visits by heads of state until 1989, the year of the overthrow of the communist regime in Romania. From 1990, respectively 1993 until today, Peleş and Pelişor castles have been reopened for visits. In 2007, after five years of negotiations between the Romanian State and the Royal House, an agreement was reached, by which Peleş Castle, Pelişor Castle, as well as the entire Peleş domain consisting of the former royal dependencies, returned to the ownership of King Michael I (1927-1930, 1940-1947), but continued to be administered by the Romanian state. The exception is Foişor Castle, a building inaugurated in 1881. The agreement with the Royal House, which expired in 2009, in the case of Pelişor Castle, and in 2010, in the case of Peleş Castle, was extended again.
Urban context: Peleş Castle was built at the initiative of the first King of Romania, Carol I, outside the perimeter of the Podul Neagului commune, a locality with an area of 24 km in 1874, the year in which, on the initiative of the sovereign, the commune was named Sinaia. A year later, the first boyar houses were built in the center of the locality, and in 1876 the construction of the Ploieşti – Predeal railway, which also crosses Sinaia, began. At the same time, between 1873 and 1875 the foundation of Peleş Castle was built. The foundation stone laying ceremony of the residence took place in a festive setting on 10/22 August 1875. Period: 1873 – 1914, on a 1000-hectare plot of land called Piatra Arsă or the Sinaia estate, purchased by King Carol I from the Eforia of Hospitals in 1871. Authors: architects: Wilhelm von Doderer (1872–1876), professor at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, Johannes Schultz (1873, construction site manager, Doderer's assistant, and from 1876 to 1883, chief architect), Émile André Lecomte du Noüy (1890 – 1892), Karel Liman (1896 – 1924); Jean Ernest, entrepreneurs, builders and owners of building materials warehouses. Legal status: former royal residence (1883 – 1947), nationalized in 1948, museum from 1953 to 1975 and from 1990 until today, property since 2007 of His Majesty, King Michael I of Romania and public institution administered by the Romanian State, under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Regele Carol I, în uniformă de general de cavalerie, pe terasa de nord a castelului Peleş, lângă statuia Sfântului Gheorghe, opera artistului german, Rottermun, cca 1912
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