Welcome … to Bruchsal Palace and Schwetzingen Palace
Bruchsal Palace
Schwetzingen Palace
„Monumente im Bild“ is a website with pictures about palaces, gardens and churches, photographed by Manfred Schneider.
This website currently shows particularly pictures of Bruchsal Palace, a baroque castle complex, located in the north of the city of Bruchsal, formerly consisting of more than 50 individual buildings, distributed over a length of about 1 km and a width of about 350 meters. From 1722 it served as the residence of the prince-bishops of Speyer for about 90 years.
Furthermore, this website shows more and more pictures of Schwetzingen Palace, a smaller baroque palace complex with a garden of about 72 hectares, located in the middle of the city of Schwetzingen. The complex served as a summer residence for the Electors of the Palatinate in the 18th century, and as a country palace for the Grand Dukes of Baden in the 19th century. Today, the Hochschule für Rechtspflege & Justizakademie and the tax office use the wings of the palace. The City Library and xylon Museum + Workshops use a building on the edge of the palace garden, while external theatres and orchestras regularly perform in the Palace Theatre / Rococo Theatre in the palace garden.
In addition, this website also shows images of other buildings and museums associated with Bruchsal Palace:
- Bruchsal Municipal Museum (in the main building of Bruchsal Palace)
- Belvedere in Bruchsal (a shooting house of the prince-bishops)
- St. Peter in Bruchsal (burial place of the last prince-bishops)
- Hermitage in Waghäusel (a baroque hunting lodge of the prince-bishops)
- Church of pilgrimage and the Monastery in Waghäusel (formerly supported by the prince-bishops)
- Kislau Palace in Bad Mingolsheim (a baroque country palace of the prince-bishops)
Bruchsal Palace
The following links (or the menu above) will take you to a selection of visual impressions of Bruchsal Palace (Impressions), to a description of the palace and garden (Description), and to all images, sorted by building groups and buildings (Main page: Bruchsal Palace).
The next links (or the menu above) will take you to notes on the history, architecture, people, literature, etc. of Bruchsal Palace (Overview / Information), to a small collection of historical documents (Historical Plans and Images), and to an overview of all images, on one page, randomly sorted (All Images / Search for Images). On this page you can also search for all images of Bruchsal Palace that contain a specific text in the image descriptions.
Schwetzingen Palace
The following links (or the menu above) will take you to a small selection of visual impressions of Schwetzingen Palace (Impressions), to a description of the palace and gardens (Description), as well as to all images, sorted by building groups and buildings (Main Page: Schwetzingen Palace).
The next links (or the menu above) will take you to notes on the history, architecture, people, literature, etc. of Schwetzingen Palace (Overview / Information), to a small collection of historical documents (Historical Plans and Images), and to an overview of all images, on one page, randomly sorted (All Images / Search for Images). On this page you can also search for all images of Schwetzingen Palace that contain a specific text in the image descriptions.
Have fun looking at the pictures…