• The Schleißheim Palace Complex

The palace is comprised of three adjacent palaces within a large Baroque Park, in the village of Oberschleißheim, 19 km north of Munich. The 18th century New Schleißheim Baroque Palace was built as the new summer residence of the Bavarian rulers of the House of Wittelsbach. The 17th century Old Schleissheim Palace and the Lustheim Palace are late Renaissance country houses. In the new palace a series of ceremonial halls and rooms, with beautiful ceiling frescoes, stucco work decorations, ornamental metalworks, and magnificent period furniture.
Several rooms in the palace have on display baroque paintings by painters such as the Flemish  Rubens and van Dyck, the Italian Reni, Giordano, Guercino, and others, as well as German and Spanish Baroque painters. The Old Palace is home to the museum of international modern religious folk art, with few rooms in the palace restored to their original form. Lustheim Palace, Maximilian Emanuel’s hunting palace, is located more than 1 km from the old palace, presenting beautiful ceiling frescoes in the hall, electoral apartments, and wall decorations.
In the palace a display of a Meissen Porcelain Collection with more than 2,000 charming items from the 18th century. Part of the palace is the restored 17th century Renatus Chapel in the Southern Pavilion, and the beautiful frescoes covered “stable”.
The grand Baroque Park has an impressive canal system, a network of walking paths and vast flower beds. Visit the Bear Garden within the park offering seatings for 1,000 people.

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Luxury interior of Antechamber in the Electors Apartment in Schleissheim Schloss near Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The tapestries, in splendid colours and with attention to detail, depict war episodes

Luxury interior of State Bedroom in the Electress Apartment in Schleissheim Schloss near Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The room is divided by balustrade into an anteroom and an alcove containing bed