Object information:

Dachau

Dachau Court Garden

Address/
Information

Schloss- und Gartenverwaltung
Schleißheim
Außenstelle Dachau
Schlossstraße 7
85221 Dachau
Telefon (0 81 31) 8 79 23
Fax (0 81 31) 7 85 73

Responsible administration

Schloss- und Gartenverwaltung Schleißheim
Max-Emanuel-Platz 1
85764 Oberschleißheim
Telefon (0 89) 31 58 72-0
Fax (0 89) 31 58 72-50
E-mail sgvschleissheim@
bsv.bayern.de

externer Link www.schloesser-
schleissheim.de

Opening hours

Daily from 7 am until nightfall (max. 8 pm)

Guided tours

internal link guided tours for private groups can be booked here …

Admission charges  

Admission free

Please note

Information for the disabled:

Access to the Court Garden via ramp

Franchised restaurants and hotels:

Schlosscafé-Restaurant Dachau
tel (0 81 31) 45 43 66-0
fax (0 81 31) 45 43 66-1
External link www.cafe-restaurant-
schloss-dachau.de

Nearest railway station:

Dachau
External link www.bahn.de

Public transport with nearest stop:

S 2 from Munich to Dachau

Public transport with nearest stop:

Bus 720 to "Rathaus"

Parking space:

Few car and bus parking spaces in the palace square available (with costs)

 

The weather today:

www.wetter.com

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Object description:

Picture: Dachau Court Garden

After the badly dilapidated Castle Dachau was converted to a summer palace by Duke Albrecht V in 1558, a Renaissance garden designed in geometrical order with walls and square flower and herb beds, was created from 1578, based on plans by the painter architect Friedrich Sustris.

It was the Elector Max Emanuel who proceeded to give the Palace Gardens of Dachau a Baroque image in 1715. The Elector’s architect and master builder, Joseph Effner, replaced the flower and herb beds with two large broderie beds decorated with topiary box trees and flower borders.

At the same time, the Elector ordered the purchase of a small forest area to the west of the gardens, which he and his successors filled with all sorts of playing equipment, including a skittle alley, a swing, various wooden huts and more. The gardens were simplified at the start of the 19th century. The general manager and artistic director of court gardens, Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell had fruit trees planted within the garden walls from 1802. The playing garden in the copse gradually disappeared.

From the garden's attractive ridge location there is a panoramic view extending to the Alps.

internal link Dachau Palace

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