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Published: March 19th 2024
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Schloss Nymphenburg
Schloss Nymphenburg. Northern Pavilions. Administrative offices. Franz von Bayern, the current Duke of Bavaria, maintains his apartment residence here.
P1250106p1 After our morning sightseeing in Munich, we visited the beautiful Nymphenburg Palace before traveling to Prague. Nymphenburg Palace, or
Schloss Nymphenburg, was commissioned in 1663 as a summer residence by Elector Ferdinand Maria. The central pavilion was designed by Agostino Barelli, an Italian Baroque architect, and completed in 1675. (Barelli also created the elaborate Theatinerkirche in Munich for Ferdinand Maria and his wife, Henriette Adelaide of Savoy.) It was to begin as a mere hunting lodge, but Ferdinand and Henriette's descendants liked Nymphenburg and kept enlarging it into a full palace with formal gardens. Elector Max Emanuel extended the palace beginning in 1701 by adding two pavilions and galleries designed by Enrico Zucalli and Giovanni Antonio Viscardi to the south and north of the central pavilion.
Further extensions, adding the side wings, began in 1714. The first palace had a small Italian garden, which was replaced with a large French Baroque garden from 1715 to 1726. The entire garden was again landscaped from 1804 to 1823 into a fashionable English formal garden. (The central axis and fountain remain from the Baroque garden.) Today, Nymphenburg Palace is a popular Munich attraction. Visitors can see just the palace or take a tour
Schloss Nymphenburg
Schloss Nymphenburg - Nympenburg Palace. The Main Hall is currently being restored. It was originally built as a summer residence commissioned by Elector Ferdinand Maria in 1663. The central pavilion, designed by Agostino Barelli and completed in 1675, was later expanded by Max Emanuel, starting in 1701, by adding the two pavilions and galleries designed by Enrico Zucalli and Giovanni Antonio Viscardi to the south and north of the central pavilion.
P1250113 of the Wittlesbach royal apartments, walk the extensive gardens, and see the many outbuildings in the gardens, including the Rococo Amalienburg and the Magdalenenklause, designed to look like a ruin. Our group only had enough time to see the palace's exterior, fountain, and some of the gardens. However, I would love to revisit the place to see the royal apartments and explore more of this vast summer residence and its grounds!
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