The Badenburg in the Nymphenburg Palace Park in Munich is 300 years old. For the anniversary, the baroque Badeschlösschen was spruced up accordingly, as announced by the Bavarian Palace Administration in Munich. New attractions also awaited the visitors. On August 6, 1722, to celebrate the 25th birthday of Elector Karl Albrecht, Elector Max Emanuel invited guests to a supper and festive illumination in the recently completed pleasure palace.
A gem in the castle park: the Badenburg
(Photo: Stephan Rumpf)
For the first time in almost 100 years, authentic seating furniture has moved into the Elector’s bedroom. The seating set from the mid-18th century has been extensively restored. With their bright blue taffeta covers, they are reminiscent of the historical colors of the furniture covers of the past. The seating furniture is a six-part set of tabourets. In addition to the stools, the sensitive East Asian lacquered furniture has been given new showcases, and the furniture has been rearranged according to historical tradition, it is said.
In addition, a new room labeling in German, English and Italian conveys a lot of interesting facts about the Badenburg and its furnishings. This included information about how the bathroom functioned in the Baroque period or about the extraordinary stock of genuine Chinese paper wallpaper from two centuries that adorns the walls of the princely residential apartment. Elector Max Emanuel of Bavaria had the Badenburg built between 1718 and 1722.
On a well thought-out floor plan, the pleasure palace combines a ballroom, an electoral apartment and a large bathing room. The more than 50 square meter pool with a capacity of 80,000 liters of water was unrivaled at the time, not only as a work of art, but also from a technical point of view. Together with the Pagodenburg, the Magdalenenklause and the Amalienburg, the Badenburg belongs to the ensemble of four park castles in the Nymphenburg Palace Park.