To be privately owned
ResidenceAmorbach
Fürstlich-Leiningensches Palace
The Princely Leiningen Palace in Amorbach is a palace of the Princes of Leiningen in Amorbach in the Bavarian Odenwald.
The Mainz Archbishop Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein was a native of Amorbach and had a brother, the Electorate of Mainz Chief Administrator Franz Wolfgang Damian von Ostein. He had this palace built as his official residence in Amorbach from 1724 to 1727, according to plans by Anselm Franz von Ritter zu Groenesteyn.
The then Hereditary Prince Emich Carl zu Leiningen had no residence of his own before 1803, as he had been expelled from Dürkheim in 1797. He moved into this palace. In 1830, it was extended by his son Karl zu Leiningen with the help of the princely master builder Friedrich Brenner and remains the family seat of the Princes zu Leiningen to this day.
His father, Prince Carl Friedrich Wilhelm zu Leiningen, occupied parts of the opposite former abbey building, the so-called Convent. He had parts of the building converted or rebuilt as a residence. This imposing, 118-meter-long building had been erected for Amorbach Abbey from 1782 to 1794 according to plans by Franz Ignaz Michael Neumann, son of the famous Balthasar Neumann, and after the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, it was now his sovereign property.
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