The "Rittersaal", which extends over two floors, is the showpiece of the palace and one of the few well-preserved banquet halls from the era of major palace construction around 1600. The impressive, self-supporting coffered ceiling is adorned with a series of painted hunting scenes, and the splendid entrance gate is adorned with a portrayal of St George in a style similar to the equally magnificent fireplace located on the opposite side.
In addition to colorful family trees of the count's family, life-size protruding figures of animals including an elephant decorate the walls.
However, the complete realization of the new palace building appears to have exceeded both the power of the Count and of his small realm, as he never moved into the new building with his entire court, and the old castle was never demolished.
During the Thirty Years' War the palace was complete ransacked in 1634. Count Georg Friedrich, Wolfgang's son, concentrated on expanding the "Stadtkirche" (main church) in Weikersheim.
An architect was first commissioned again under his nephew, Count Siegfried. He built an eastern wing with appartements and a representative portal structure with a royal stables.
Count Carl Ludwig had the palace and town connected in 1729 by erecting arcade buildings which open to the town and to the new market square in a semicircle.
The Weikersheim branch of the Hohenlohe family died out in 1756. Since that time the palace has never again been used as a permanent residence, and it is thanks to this fact that both the interior and the garden have been preserved virtually unchanged. From 1945 to 1973 Prince Constantin zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg cared for the complex. Weikersheim Palace has belonged to the state of Baden-Württemberg since 1967.