The best waterfall hikes and walks in Südliche Fröttmaninger Heide

A dream castle in the Nymphenburg district with a beautiful backdrop. Unfortunately, in a few years, two very tall towers to the left behind the castle will spoil the skyline.

The Nymphenburger Schlossrondell is a historic, listed ensemble with four courtiers' houses designed by Joseph Effner from the 18th century. From here, there is a spectacular view of the palace, the basin, and the fountain. The houses are partly used for events. The Rondell development, which originated from the two outer buildings and was completed after 1730 under Elector Karl Albrecht, son of Max Emanuel, in front of the main wing, was considered an architectural sensation in its time. Ten palaces are located here, symmetrically divided into two groups of five, which were built between 1728 and 1758 for higher court officials.

The smaller of the two palace park lakes, the Pagodenburger See, was completed in 1813. It is named after the Pagodenburg, which lies in the northern part of the lake on an island formed by a ring-shaped canal. The area of the lake, including the island of about one hectare, is 2.9 hectares.

The octagonal floor plan of the Pagodenburg on a small island in the lake named after it was designed by Elector Max Emanuel. Master builder Joseph Effner completed the design and supervised the construction of the pleasure palace from 1716 to 1719. In 1767 it was rebuilt in the Rococo style. The name comes from the decoration of the interiors with Asian motifs. Consequently, the rooms are called "Chinese Salon" or "Chinese Cabinet".

Elector Karl Albrecht gifted his wife Amalie this Rococo building named after her, erected according to the plans of François Cuvilliés from 1734 to 1739 as a small hunting lodge for pheasant hunting. The Amalienburg is a typical late Baroque pleasure palace.

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.

This watercourse, which is largely a straight line, begins as a branch of the Würm river, coming from the Starnberger See, in the Munich district of Pasing. The amount of water taken from the Würm is regulated by a weir. Near Pipping, the canal, which initially runs parallel to the river, bends off and leads past Obermenzing to the east directly towards Nymphenburg Palace. 2800 meters after the branch from the Würm, the canal flows into the palace park and here feeds not only the cascade but the entire water system of the park, including the Great (Badenburger) and Small (Pagodenburger) Lakes. In front of the Great Parterre, it divides into two arms, which flow under the two side wings of the palace and reunite in front of the palace in a pond with a fountain. From there, the canal, dug from 1728 to 1730, continues on its original axis, also in a straight line, in the direction of Neuhausen, where it ends after about one and a half kilometers in the basin at the Hubertusbrunnen.