41. Bayern Riddle: The eighth question

Created: 05/13/2022, 06:00

Nymphenburg Castle.

© Bavarian Palace Administration www.schloss-nymphenburg.de

41st Bavarian puzzle of the Münchner Merkur together with the Bavarian Palace Administration: The eighth and last question is about the Nymphenburg Palace Park.

On October 30, 1722, the wedding party visited the Badenenburg and Pagodenburg in the park as well as the palace gardens themselves. Directly behind the stately building complex of Nymphenburg Palace, the impressive palace gardens of around 180 hectares still extend today, the origins of which go back to the 17th century. century go back.

The area, which was laid out as a small, modest ornamental garden from 1664, was expanded from 1701 under Elector Max Emanuel by the garden artist Dominique Girard and the court architect Joseph Effner into a large baroque garden that was widely praised for its magnificent furnishings.

The castle formed the central point of the complex, to which the garden referred in an axially symmetrical manner.

A canal was laid out as the central axis of the palace and park,

through which the water from Würm, two kilometers away, reached the garden.

Over the parterre in front of the castle, a flat area of ​​four ornamental beds with rich ornaments and a water basin, the view led through long, straight avenues into the landscape.

The Nymphenburg Palace Park

The attractive park castles of Badenburg, Pagodenburg and Magdalenenklause were built in the extensive, wooded part of the park.

They were partially surrounded by their own regularly designed gardens.

Under Elector Karl Albrecht, the Amalienburg was later added as a small hunting lodge not far from the main castle.

The Amalienburg in the Nymphenburg Palace Park.

© Bavarian Palace Administration www.schloss-nymphenburg.de

Karl Albrecht had it commissioned by his court architect François Cuvilliés the Younger as a gift for his wife Maria Amalia.

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The small hunting lodge was built between 1734 and 1739 not far from the main castle.

The electoral couple with the initials CA (Karl Albrecht) and MA (Maria Amalia) were immortalized on the lattice that

surrounds the shooting range above the center of the building.

The end of the garden was created by a magnificent water cascade in the west of the Nymphenburg area.

Large cascade in the Nymphenburg Palace Park.

© Bavarian Palace Administration www.schloss-nymphenburg.de

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Nymphenburg Palace Park, which had been laid out according to formal design principles, underwent far-reaching changes.

The baroque gardens were largely redesigned in the style of an English landscape garden by Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell - the most important garden artist of his time.

The central axis remained largely untouched.

Commissioned by King Max I Joseph, Sckell transformed the two diagonal avenues into attractive scenic situations with hills, lakes and diverse woody plantations.

In the old forest sections between the straight axes of the baroque complex, he created an extensive network of paths.

In elegant curves, it always offered new images, especially

because the uniform forest stands were now very varied with small clearings and numerous bulges.

The transitions between meadow and forest were provided with meandering woody plantations, which created natural-looking forest edges.

With this canon of forms, Sckell succeeded in creating varied landscapes.

Formed over the centuries through various phases of development, the garden complex is today - cared for by the Bavarian Palace Department - characterized by an interplay of characteristic design elements of the Baroque and the landscape garden in the English style.

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The eighth question:

When was the classical Monopteros built on the Great Lake?

This was the correct

Question:

What is the name of the architect of the Badenburg who received his training from the leading French architect Germain Boffrand during Elector Max Emanuel's exile in France?

Answer:

Joseph Effner

Note:

Schloesserland Bayern, p. 150

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