Today we went to the Bruchsal palace. It is colder again, but still we have sun. The weather phenomenon we have right now is called Schafskälte (sheeps cold). It is a cold spell around 11th June (between 4th and 20th June) in Middle Europe, which affects especially Germany. The Schafskälte doesn't occur each year. Due to cold and moist air from north west the temperature drops to 5 to 10 °C. So far about the weather
The palace of Bruchsal was residence of the prince bishop of Speyer. It was built on request of prince bishop Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn-Buchheim from 1720 on in baroque stile. It was destoyed on 1rst March 1945, when about 80% of Bruchsal was destroyed and many people lost their lives. It was reconstructed in the years around 1970, but the church part was created in modern stile
There are several interesting museums in the palace: City Museum, Stone Age Museum and the
German Museum of Musical Automata
There are two long alleys with chestnut trees.
On the right side is the church part of the palace complex. You only see a small part of the shadow, but it looks like the opposite complex with the chamber music room.
I will read, what's written on the sign: This fountain was built in memory of Marchioness Amalie von Baden (1754 - 1832), spouse of margrave Karl Ludwig von Baden. She found her place in history as "mother-in-law of Europe", because she managed to marry five of her six daughters off to the most powerful prince's palaces of Europe. When she was widowedshe made Schloss Bruchsal one of her homes in the year 1806. She died there in 1832.
The fountain was planned by Prof. Dr. Fritz Hirsch (1871 - 1938) in 1912. He was in charge of the redecoration of the Schloss Bruchsal in the early days of the 20th century.
Here you see the plan of the palace area.
Here you see the county court and the fountain called Schneckenbrunnen (snails fountain).
Just turning around you see the main entrance of the palace.
At the same place we took a photo of the church part.
At the one entrance of the church you can see photos of the destroyed palace and church.
This is the backside of the church and the church tower. The other buildings also belong to the palace area.
Here we are at the backside of the palace. There are three nice fountains.
Just turning around we took the photo of this building.
Here's one of four guard statues with halberts.
There's a nice pond with many ducks
In the main way of the palace garden you find many statues. This one shows the element water. There are also the elements air, fire and earth.
There are also the statues of the four seasons winter, spring, summer and autumn. This one shows autumn.
We have to hurry now, because we have to fetch our host's daughter from her choir. I hope, you enjoyed the photos.
Hugs, Brinda