Nymphenburg Palace
N 48° 09.497 E 011° 30.207
32U E 686167 N 5336923
Nymphenburg Palace, situated on the western outskirts of Munich, was the summer residence and seat of Bavaria's electors and kings. Founded in 1664, during the age of absolutism, Nymphenburg was extended on the model of the French royal court.
Waymark Code: WM18PJ
Location: Bayern, Germany
Date Posted: 02/25/2007
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As early as the eighteenth century, not only the palace itself was considered a masterpiece of court art and architecture throughout Europe, but above all its park, designed by French landscape architects, which included the intimate Pagodenburg, Badenburg, Magdalenenklause and Amalienburg pavillions.
At Nymphenburg, visitors from around the world can still admire the superb works of European art and architecture from the Baroque (the overall complex and the pavillions) and Rococo periods (the Amalienburg and the Great Hall in the palace). The park is an attraction in its own right. A formal French garden laid out in the style of the absolutist era, it was brilliantly redesigned after 1800 as a landscape garden and today is a place where Munich residents go to relax.
The name Nymphenburg is closely associated with the former ruling family, the Wittelsbachs, some of whose members still live in a wing of the palace. It was in this palace that Bavaria's "fairy-tale" King, Ludwig II, was born on 25 August 1845. (Ludwig II built the more world reknown Neuschwanstein fantasy castle and two other major palaces in Bavaria, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee.) His ceremonial christening took place in the Great Hall, and it was a Nymphenburg that he spent much of his youth.
Accessibility: Partial access
Condition: Intact
Admission Charge?: yes
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