Schleißheim Palace Complex
Three Wittelsbach palaces in one Baroque park — the last one sits on its own circular island at the far end of the garden axis.
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Bavaria's former summer court spans three building campaigns across a grand park. The Old Palace (completed 1623 in the style of Andrea Palladio) now holds exhibitions on religious culture and Prussian history. Lustheim Palace, built 1684–1688 on a circular island, was designed as the terminal point de vue of the entire Baroque garden.
What to look for
- Lustheim Palace on its circular island — the whole garden axis points straight at it
- The Old Palace's late-Renaissance Palladian facade, interior rooms decorated by Peter Candid
- WWI memorial to the Royal Bavarian Air Force in the Old Palace garden, where the airfield once stood
Lustheim is at the far end of the park — budget enough time to walk the full Baroque axis out and back.
Schleißheim Palace Complex is one of 37 sights worth the detour in Munich, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Munich pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Munich
- Allianz ArenaThe world's first stadium with a full color-changing exterior — 75,000 seats wrapped in inflated ETFE plastic panels that can change color across the entire facade.
- Deutsches Museum125,000 objects across 50 fields of science and technology — all on a former coal island in the Isar.
- Nymphenburg PalaceAt 632 metres across, this Baroque summer palace is wider than Versailles — and it started as a birth announcement.
- Alte PinakothekThe gallery that taught Europe how to build a museum — then filled it with five centuries of Old Masters.
- FrauenkircheThe twin towers top out at just over 98 meters — Munich caps the entire city at 99 m, so nothing can overtake them on the skyline.
- Englischer GartenA Massachusetts-born American Loyalist, fleeing Britain after the Revolution, drew up plans for what became one of the world's largest urban parks.