Largest Baroque Palace
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Are you looking for a room at one of the nice hotels Mannheim Germany has to offer? Well it’s now wonder, there are some sites to see in Mannheim and the surrounding area. It is a really large city these days. It used to be just a coastal fishing town but now it has grown to be a real metropolis. It is located in the middle of where the Rhine and Neckar Rivers merge. You will find this city in the Baden-Wurttemberg state of Germany. Today it is the home of 2.4 million people. In the center of the city there is a very large eighteenth century palace.
The Mannheim Palace is a wonderful and the largest, baroque palaces in Europe. It was the residence of the Prince electors originally. Now it is the University of Mannheim. This city was founded in 1606 and this palace sits on the site that was once a fortress called Friedrichsburg. Elector Karl III Philip had troubles in Heidelberg so he changed his the Palatinates’s capital to Mannheim. He is the one who built the new palace on the old site. The construction of the palace was completed in 1778. Then of course Karl Theodor eventually became the Elector of Bavaria and then moved his court to Munich.
The palace endured the coming and going of Napoleon of course during the Napoleonic Wars. Then during World War II the palace was bombed heavily and partially destroyed. There was a back and forth talk about whether they should just tare it down for a new modern city to be developed. In the end, they reconstructed the palace to how it stands today. The University is mainly a business university and the main library and many lecture halls are still housed in the palace. The modern trend of universities having mini campuses around the city has taken hold with the University of Mannheim today.
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