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Schloss- und Gartenverwaltung Nymphenburg
Schloss Nymphenburg,
Eingang 19
80638 München
(0 89) 1 79 08-0
Fax (0 89) 1 79 08-6 27
sgvnymphenburg@
bsv.bayern.de
www.schloss-
nymphenburg.de

Opening hours

January, February, November:
6.30 am-6 pm
March: 6 am-6.30 pm
April, September: 6 am-8.30 pm
May-August: 6 am-9.30 pm
October: 6 am-7 pm
December: 6.30 am-5.30 pm

The historical pump systems in the park’s pump houses (Green Pump House in the Little Village and Johannis Pump House in the north wing of the palace) are open daily from 10am to 4pm from Easter to the beginning of October.

Guided tours

guided tours for private groups can be booked here …

Admission charges  

Admission free

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Accessible

Shop at the palace
www.schloesser-
bayern-shop.de

There is a passage from the park to the Munich Botanic Garden
www.botmuc.de

"Schlosswirtschaft Schwaige"
Tel. (0 89) 12 02 08 90
www.schlosswirtschaft-schwaige.de

Café im Palmenhaus
Tel.(0 89) 17 53 09
www.palmenhaus.de

"Die Neue Fasanerie"
Hartmannshofer Straße 20
80997 München, 
Tel.(0 89) 1 49 56 07
www.neue-fasanerie.de

"Taxisgarten"
Taxisstraße 12
80637 München, 
Tel.(0 89) 15 68 27
www.taxisgarten.de

Munich
www.bahn.de

Tram 12 or 16 to
"Romanplatz"
Bus 51 and Tram 17 to
"Schloss Nymphenburg"

450 car parking spaces, 25 bus parking spaces available

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Nymphenburg Palace Park – Munich

Around this garden area with its many design features was an extensive park created primarily from the existing woods. Two groups of six straight avenues cut across the park on either side of the canal, to which Effner added a cascade at the western end of the park. Each group radiated out from a central point with a pavilion, which in the northern group was the Pagodenburg and in the southern group the Badenburg, both built by Effner. Both buildings were surrounded by formal gardens with pools and hedges.

In 1725/28 Effner also built the Magdalenenklause, in a secluded wooded section north of the bosket close to the palace. On the east side of the palace is the cour d'honneur, designed as a garden, which acquired its present form under Elector Karl Albrecht with the crescent of buildings ("Rondell") in front of the palace that was begun in 1728 and completed in 1758.

In the course of the 18th century, further architectural features and a variety of statues were added to the park. In 1734/39 the Amalienburg was built by François Cuvilliés the Elder next to the southern bosket area. From 1769 the "Large Parterre" was decorated with the ornamental vases and statues of the gods that can still be seen today.

In the second half of the 18th century, the landscape garden developed in England became increasingly popular in Germany, and Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell was commissioned to transform the geometric baroque complex. He retained the sections along the central axis – the basic structure of the parterre and the central canal with the cascade – and replaced the original geometric axis and avenue system with natural design elements. 

Through the introduction of so-called "ha-has" – where stretches of garden wall were sunk and thus rendered invisible – Sckell extended the park visually beyond its borders into the surrounding countryside. By 1799/1800 he had already laid out gardens between the Amalienburg and the Large Parterre for the children of the electoral couple.

Overall von Sckell succeeded in creating a classical landscape garden of outstanding quality, the particular attractions of which lie in the retention of striking features of the garden from previous, totally different style epochs. The basic structure of the park has remained virtually unchanged to the present day.

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