I am in absolute awe of your dedication, and the pic spam.

I think you and I have a good division of labor. You have the command of German and the ability to sustain concentration through a whole book, so you read and summarize books for us. I have mad Google skills and no ability to concentrate beyond a sentence here and a paragraph there, so I do the detective work that involves looking things up and compiling information from different sources. :D

So: "court chamber" or "servants' quarters", respectively.

Makes sense, thanks! Plus I feel better now about not being able to make out the letters, lol.