Schloss Fürstenried
Fürstenried Palace, or Schloss Fürstenried, is a Baroque maison de plaisance and hunting lodge built for an elector rather than a dynasty of monarchs. Joseph Effner designed it for Elector Maximilian II Emanuel, and construction ran from 1715 to 1717 as an extension of an older noble mansion. A fire struck in 1726, but the palace continued to move through royal and military needs. In 1777 to 1797, it served as the residence of Maria Anna of Saxony, the widow of Maximilian III Joseph. During the chaos of the French Revolutionary Wars, Munich was surrounded in September 1796, and Fürstenried was plundered by the French Republican Army. In 1866 and again during the Franco-German War of 1870/71, the palace functioned as a military hospital, and from 1883 until his death in 1916, it was home to ill King Otto of Bavaria. …
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