- Type
- Palace / château
- Built
- 1711 · 18th century
- Style
- baroque architecture
- Commissioned by
- Lothair Francis of Schönborn
- Architect
- Johann Dientzenhofer, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt
- Visiting
- probably – Wikidata lists it as a museum or gives tickets, opening hours or visitor numbers; check before you go
- Coordinates
- 49.7627°, 10.8205°
History
Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Archbishop-Elector of Mainz, built his summer residence at Pommersfelden in 1711–1718, largely out of his own pocket. The design was by Johann Dientzenhofer, with the Viennese architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt advising on the staircase. The leading artists of the day decorated the interiors: Johann Rudolf Byss painted the ceiling over the stairs and Johann Michael Rottmayr the Marble Hall. When the founder died in 1729, the palace stayed with the Schönborn family, who still own it together with the picture gallery the Elector assembled.
What to see
The palace faces a cour d'honneur, with a semicircular stable block opposite. Its pride is the three-storey staircase with galleries and a ceiling fresco of the four continents. Visitors see the Marble Hall, the mirror cabinet, the shell-encrusted grotto of the sala terrena and a gallery of several hundred Old Master paintings, one of the largest private Baroque collections in Germany.
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