Palais Leuchtenberg
Eugène de Beauharnais—stepson of Napoleon and brother-in-law of King Ludwig I of Bavaria—commissioned Leo von Klenze to create the Palais Leuchtenberg, a “suburban city palace” meant to set the standard for a new boulevard. Construction ran from 1817 to 1821, consuming 770,000 guilders—equal to Bavaria’s entire construction budget in 1819—and produced what the building’s scale called “the largest palace of the era.” Klenze worked in an Italian neo-Renaissance mode, modelling it on Rome’s Palazzo Farnese, and he designed for practicality: the adaptable interior layout allowed the residence to be repurposed if Beauharnais were forced to leave Munich. More than 250 rooms were planned, including a ballroom, theatre, billiard room, art gallery, and chapel, with outbuildings extending over 100 metres along what is now Kardinal-Döpfner-Straße. …
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