Palais Brühl-Marcolini

As early as the late 17th century, a garden was located on this site, acquired in 1718 by Imperial Count von Manteuffel. In 1726, the property came into the possession of Augustus the Strong, who gifted it in 1727 to a Duke of Württemberg, whose wife, Countess Ursula Katharina Lubomirska, was a royal mistress. Between 1727 and 1728, she presumably commissioned Johann Christoph Naumann to build a garden palace with a central octagonal garden hall and an overlying ballroom, supplemented by short transverse wings. In 1736, Count Heinrich von Brühl acquired the palace and commissioned Johann Christoph Knöffel to extend it with side wings enclosing a courtyard. The main axis on the garden side was designed from 1741 with the construction of the Neptune Fountain, completed in 1744 by Lorenzo Mattielli. From 1774, Johann Daniel Schade and Johann Gottfried Kuntsch undertook further renovations for the new owner, Count Camillo Marcolini.