Schlosspark Nymphenburg — Attraction in Munich

Nymphenburg Park (Schlosspark Nymphenburg) is a 200-hectare park situated behind Nymphenburg Palace. This is a great place and opportunity to spend 2-3 hours in a rural environs before or after your visit to the palace and museums.

The park was originally created in the late 17th century as an Italian Garden. It was given French and Baroque features throughout the 18th century before being much converted into a English style, nature woodland and countryside in the 19th century. As such, the park has elements of various time periods that make it a unique an interesting place to spend a few hours.

Firstly, you won't help but notice the Versailles like Canal that runs down the centre of the Nymphenburg Park. There are three Baroque style palaces and hunting lodges (Amalienburg, Badenburg and Pagodaburg) and a hermitage (Magdalenenklause) in ruinous appearance situated around the park in various locations. These can be visited together with a combo ticket (€4.50) as well as part of a combo ticket (€11.50) that includes the Castle, Marstall (Stagecoach) and Porzellen (Porcelain) museums as well.

Other aspects of the park that we really liked were the natural landscape with heavily wooded areas mixed with large stretches of open space, two lakes and several canal like streams. In this regard, the park very much felt like a natural countryside park.

We also liked seeing various statues such as (Pan and the Goat) and monuments like the 19th-century Apollo Temple on Lake Badenburg. There are walking trails which criss-cross the park, providing opportunity to venture around deeply into the park grounds to seek peaceful, quiet and beautiful grounds away from the heavily visited palace nearby were also very much enjoyed.

In the end, we liked Nymphenburg as much if not more than the English Garden in the middle of Munich. We would gladly return to spend more time here during future visits to the city and highly recommend visitors to the palace to allow at least another hour or two to explore the park...

Nymphenburg and its stunning park will be a sight for your sore eyes! It truly is a magnificent piece of architecture, landscape, having started as a small central pavilion, having been enhanced, expanded and modernized and stylized through time to what it is in its present form. The most fascinating aspect of the palace is its time line in terms of being a residential palace by the 17th and 18th centuries. It appears much more modern for its time. The design is quite symmetrical from the outside, yet baroque within. You get sketches of Versailles and Catherine Palace in St Petersburg even walking outside. The grand schlosspark is a magnificent large area encompassing some stunning fountains, statues, walk ways and then the stunning waters around it and in in, Lake Badenburg, Lake Pagodenburger, it all provides some beautiful sights and scenes. That the Wittelback family were producing these beautiful monuments at the time that they did, and many of the Bavarian Royals were patrons of such palaces and parks, is a testament to their lovely tastes. Take a day out, Nymphenburg palace is an easy find within Munich West, and you may take a long stroll along the park, visit the lovely Cafe in its grounds, sit on a gondola and have pictures taken, visit the palace and be mesmerized by its immense...

The place is great and it is for sure a must. Such a beautiful open garden is something unique.

The one star is for the elderly people with big cameras willing to give advice and behaving like if they own the place. Walking in the park with a dog with leash it is allowed (long or short leash), also running is allowed, but some amateur photographers that like taking pictures of animals (i hope only animals and nature...) in the park just don't like anyone that could disturb the peace. The best thing of the park is the exquisite RESPECT we all have to the garden and the people, but if photographers don't understand that they don't own the place (even if they are from an association), the respect is over. Please Nymphenburg Park management, encourage photographers to RESPECT that dogs walk in the park, people run as we (users) respect that photographers walking around without asking them to show us the pictures just in case we have been unwittingly been photographed, or asking if they have permit as they don't carry any visible identification. If the time in the park start to be a continuos interrogatory from one to other it would be better to close it.

I think it will be wise to have in mind: Mind your own business and enjoy the park. (As long as rules are...