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2 unusual facts about Nymphenburg


Aponogeton capuronii

A specimen featuring bullate leaf blades has been cultivated successfully for more than 20 years by J. Bogner in the Botanical Gardens Munich.

Neuhausen-Nymphenburg

The borough 09 ranges from the Mars-field at the inner edge of town to the Nymphenburg Palace in the west and extends from the Olympic Park over the villa colony in Gern to the railway tracks railway station Pasing.


Max Haushofer

He was born in Nymphenburg, the son of a tutor at the court of the Bavarian King Maximilian I.

Nicolai Eigtved

On his travel back to Denmark he stayed and made drawings in Vienna and Munich, where he became familiar with the rococo style seen in French architect François de Cuvilliés’s newly built Amalienburg Palace near Nymphenburg

Nymphenburg Palace

Nymphenburg Palace lies ahead the Munich Residence and Schleissheim Palace, but clearly behind the castles of King Ludwig II, especially Neuschwanstein.

The canals of Nymphenburg are part of the northern Munich channel system, a system of waterways that connected also to the complex of Schleissheim Palace.

Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

Nymphenburg Palace is known to have been the working place of artists and sculptors like Hanns Goebl and Franz Anton Bustelli.


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