CastleWiesbaden-Biebrich

Biebrich Castle (Wiesbaden)

Hessian State Office of Historic Monuments

Biebrich Palace in Wiesbaden is a baroque residence on the banks of the Rhine. Originally a garden house, it developed over decades into a three-winged complex.

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The origins of Biebrich Palace date back to 1696 when Prince Georg August of Nassau-Idstein acquired a property on the Rhine and had a garden house built there. Between 1701 and 1703, this was expanded into a small residential palace, and a few years later, from 1704 to 1706, an identical pavilion was erected for the princess. The prince commissioned Maximilian von Welsch in 1707 to develop a baroque concept. Welsch connected the two pavilions with galleries and a central rotunda, which included a grotto hall and a ballroom. After Georg August's death in 1721, Prince Karl of Nassau-Usingen took over the estate. He commissioned Friedrich Joachim Stengel to complete the palace as a three-winged complex, with the east wing added from 1734 and the west wing from 1740. In 1744, Prince Karl moved his residence to Biebrich.

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