Top 20 Castles around Landkreis München

The Munich Residenz with its Hofgarten. A beautiful place to linger and enjoy the tranquility despite the hustle and bustle of the city around it.

The Pan group belongs to the remarkable sculptures in the Nymphenburg Palace Park and is a beautiful example of the connection between mythology, art, and landscape design. The group of figures shows the Greek god of nature and shepherds, Pan, who is considered in ancient mythology as a symbol of wilderness, joie de vivre, and the close connection of humans with nature.

The centerpiece of the Badenburg is the impressive, heated indoor swimming pool. With a length of around 17 meters, it was a technical masterpiece for its time and is among the earliest indoor swimming pools in noble residences. The magnificent furnishings with stucco, tiles, and ornate decorations still convey an impression of the luxurious life at the electoral court today.

For centuries, the Badenburg at the southeastern end of the Great Lake was the first major building in Europe exclusively dedicated to the purpose of enjoying a comfortable bath. Joseph Effner planned the pleasure palace and built it from 1718 to 1722. In addition to the large bathing hall, which extends over two floors, it also contains a ballroom and an electoral apartment with a bedroom, writing room, and dressing room. The bathing pool, over fifty square meters in size and holding 80,000 liters of water, was unparalleled in its time, not only as a work of art but also in technical terms.

Removed from time, the goat-god Pan rests on an artificial hill and plays his shepherd's flute, which is now mostly called the Pan flute after him. A billy goat lies next to him, seemingly listening to the sounds. Peter Simon Lamine created the sculpture in 1815 from Carrara marble. The "Pan Monument", as early historians called the group, crowns an artificial spring. It is the outflow of the Great Lake, which pours with a small waterfall into the Teufelsbach, which continues to the northeast.

The birth of the Bavarian Prince-Elector Max Emanuel from the House of Wittelsbach in 1662 was the occasion for the construction of a palace with a garden in the area between the villages of Neuhausen and Obermenzing as a gift for the young mother, Electorress Henriette Adelaide of Savoy. The foundation stone for the "Schwaigbau zu Nymphenburg" was laid in 1664. The complex was designed as a pleasure palace in the style of Italian country villas; it only became a Baroque palace complex, which could serve as a summer residence and an alternative to the seat of government, the Munich Residenz, a generation later under Max Emanuel. The model for Nymphenburg was the Piedmontese hunting lodge La Venaria, whose architect Amedeo Castellamonte (1613 to 1683) also provided the initial designs for Nymphenburg.

The view of the castle canal from the Ludwig Ferdinand Bridge on the city side clearly shows the dimensions of the monumental three-winged complex of Nymphenburg Palace. From 1715 to 1918, it was the summer residence of the Electors, then of the Kings of Bavaria from the House of Wittelsbach. Nymphenburg is one of the largest palaces in Germany.

Seat of the Dukes, Electors, and Kings of Bavaria from the House of Wittelsbach from 1508 to 1918 Largest city palace in Germany