Dear Readers,
In Munich, there are many places worth seeing, being this Schloss one of the top 10. Last Monday 2 of my Best Friends from Mexico came to visit. It was a long time without seeing them, but in the bright side, I was able to show them so many amazing places in Munich, especially this week because we had a really nice weather. The first place we visit was the Schloss Nymphenburg in München.
Zur Geschichte: Vom Barockpark zum Landschaftsgarten
The Bavarian Elector Ferdinand Maria presented his wife Henriette Adelaide with the inn, Schwaige Kemnat, to the west of the royal capital Munich, on the occasion of the long-awaited birth of a successor to the throne Max Emanuel in 1663. The Electress created her “borgo delle ninfe” here, a summer palace with small gardens.
Nymphenburg Park was completed based on a design by Dominique Girard and the cooperation of Joseph Effner. Axial-symmetrical designed gardens with an elaborate parterre with hedged areas bordering on both sides, featuring facilities intended for the amusement of the court, were created in front of the west side of the palace.
In the year 1800, the Bavarian Elector Max IV Joseph commissioned the reshaping of the palace park.Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell, leading garden artist of his time, carried out re-landscaping of the grounds of Nymphenburg between 1804 and 1823. Sckell thereby created stimulating landscape scenery, which integrated the Baroque pavilions as effectively as the classical Monopteros by the Great Lake erected in 1865, to replace two earlier wooden constructions. In Nymphenburg, Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell succeeded in creating a classical landscape garden, whose special charm lay in the continuation of characteristic features of the gardens originating from previous and fundamentally different stylistic epochs. The grounds have remained virtually unchanged in their basic structure until today.
You cannot leave Munich without spending a sunny afternoon walking through it’s beautiful gardens.
How to get there:
- S-Bahn (suburban railway) to “Laim”, then bus to “Schloss Nymphenburg”
or
- U-Bahn (underground) to “Rotkreuzplatz”, then tram to “Schloss Nymphenburg”
Liebe Grüße aus München,
Raissa Ruiz
