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The residence is a baroque building of residences at the edge of the city center of peppering castle.

It served up to the dissolution of the religious territories by the Mediatisierung as seat of the of prince bishops. The lock ranks among the Hauptwerken of the South German baroque and is in the European context as the most important building of residences of the late baroque to be regarded, it is located thus in a row with in Vienna and lock Versailles close Paris. The Unesco raised the building 1981 into the rank of a world cultural heritage.

Meaning

The UNESCO justifies the admission in the world inheritance thereby, the residence is singular the most uniform and most unusual of all baroque castles, by its originality, its ambitious schedule of work and the international composition of the building office, a synthesis of the European baroque. It illustrates besides one of the most radiating courts of Europe.

Some time ago very complex mirror cabinet (due to the parade rooms of the emperor) restored in addition is the most perfect space work of art the Rococo.

Building

The building of the residence was ever experienced under prince bishop Johann Philipp Franz of beautiful fount 1720 begun, which died already four years later, without the building completion, let alone this residence to have inhabited. That received the order at that time Balthasar Neumann, who completed him 1744 under the brother of the first owner, prince bishop Friedrich Carl von as carcass. In the interior equipment with Fresken and Stuckaturen Battista Tiepolo took part Giovanni among other things 1752 (stairway with the largest coherent Deckenfresko of the world, emperor hall, yard church), Antonio Giuseppe Bossi 1749 and Johannes Zick 1750 (garden hall).

The decoration and the interior equipment have three phases and still begin under Friedrich Carl. Under its successors Carl Philipp of Greiffenclau are completed the famous painting. With death Greiffenklaus as clients applies the epoch of the Rococo as terminated. The further equipment under Adam Friedrich of its home takes place in the substantially more meager style of the Louis Seize. The equipment of the so-called Ingelheimzimmer starting from 1776 in the style of the early classicism decide as last construction measure a nearly sixty-year old continuous construction period.

The building is closed in itself perfectly and took place - which for such a large lock expressed rarely actual after a uniform plan. The fact that the today's plant works in such a manner closed is to be due to synthetic Kraft and the genius of Balthasar Neumann. Was incumbent on it it, the drafts of the building masters Maximilian of Welsch, Robert de Cotte, Gabriel Germain Boffrand to lead Anselm Franz baron von Ritter to Groenesteyn and Johann Lucas from Hildebrandt to a synthesis. Above all latter both affected the draft process considerably. Hildebrandt coined/shaped the characteristic Mittelrisalite of garden and yard facade, while Boffrand inspired the of the city front. The fact that nevertheless nothing eklektizistisches adheres to the building can be regarded as one of the most important artistic achievements of Balthasar Neumann.

Plant and architecture

It formally concerns a plant over a rectangular surface area, at which to the city side an honour yard is left blank. Thus the residence represents a compromise between a three-wing plant comparably with lock white stone in Pommersfelden and a city residence as in Munich or Vienna. The extents are enormous, then the garden front has a length of 167 meters.

With lock white stone connects the great importance of the stairway in the representative sequence of space to peppering castle. However it is not central put on, but extends from the in northern direction. With its gigantic extents alone the stairway is in Caserta comparable with Neapel, which resembles also structural the Here like there we have stairs, which split then into two parallel runs up to barking days up to a turning landing. The dreischiffige stairs are surrounded by handling.

Two further areas of highest importance are the emperor hall and the mirror cabinet, two for 18. Century unique space compositions. The emperor hall - still completed during lifetimes Balthasar Neumann - probably gives the most authentic certification of the decorative concept of Neumann. The mirror cabinet cannot be regarded as high point of its space kind which can be increased. The green cabinet, the venezianische room, the white room as well as the yard church represent remarkable space creations to Frankish Rococo.

Tiepolos Deckenfresko

The enormous plant of approach road and stairs is painted over-curved by the largest coherent Deckenfresko of the world, 1752-1753 of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, the most famous fresco painter of its time.

Topic: Rule over the earth - the four continents. By the way an oil sketch for the prince bishop hangs from April 1752 today in the metropolitan museum, New York.

The walls are reservedly white in forms stuckiert. Thus this area does not work overloaded, and the Deckenfresko becomes effective in the best possible way.

Yard church

After itself prince bishop Johann Philipp Franz of beautiful fount of Balthasar Neumann (today estimated as most important dt. masters of building of baroque) to convince left to establish the yard church in the southwest Ecktrakt of the residence stepped planning into crucial phase Neumann, who the project became to transfer, had the problem to retain the uniform external feature of the residence and to consider the organization of the front with their windows and floors. Neumann tried to help with the fact that he arranged the area with columns, which consider both the lengths and the heights of the window-rich outside wall. In the input area as in the choir the columns take up lofts and form Kolonnaden, whereby the area works long, but not narrowly. Although the sketch with its three together-following oval rotundas can be read off from the space domes, it is to be noticed with the organization of the area hardly more.

Yard garden

The yard garden was decorated with numerous sculptures, Putten, vases and Kanapees of Peter Wagner. The entrance to the garden the forged lattices of the Tirolers George Oegg zieren.

The Second World War

In the Second World War the residence was heavily damaged particularly in the wings. Over the stairway the roof framing, the Fresko of Tiepolo was missing could however by a provisional roofing be saved. To a large extent destroyed Innendekoration of the Enfilade was reconstructed - a procedure, which did not encounter in the postwar care of monuments undivided agreement.

The final re-establishment could be locked only into the 1980er years with the completion of the mirror cabinet. For this the artist Wolfgang spring the originally used technology of the rear and Aufglasmalerei was suitable on.

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