Nymphenburg Palace

Why go

The Bavarian Palace Administration, which runs it, says Nymphenburg was founded as a summer residence after the birth in 1662 of the long-awaited heir Max Emanuel, begun in 1664 to plans by Agostino Barelli as a cubic pavilion on open land west of the city, and given its present dimensions under Elector Max Emanuel (ruled 1680–1726), whose architect Joseph Effner drew up the overall plan with the garden architect Dominique Girard around 1715 (translated from the operator's German pages). Its admission page says the palace itself is visited only with tickets for a time slot, sold at the ticket offices and online up to the day before the visit, and recommends booking online to avoid waiting; the Marstallmuseum and the park pavilions are visited without a time slot, and tickets for the pavilions are sold at the palace and Marstallmuseum ticket offices and online, not at the pavilions. This record is the palace; the park, its pavilions (Amalienburg, Badenburg, Pagodenburg, Magdalenenklause) and the Marstallmuseum are not this record.