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The Nymphenburger Schlossrondell is a historic, listed ensemble with four courtiers' houses designed by Joseph Effner from the 18th century. From here, there is a spectacular view of the palace, the basin, and the fountain. The houses are partly used for events. The Rondell development, which originated from the two outer buildings and was completed after 1730 under Elector Karl Albrecht, son of Max Emanuel, in front of the main wing, was considered an architectural sensation in its time. Ten palaces are located here, symmetrically divided into two groups of five, which were built between 1728 and 1758 for higher court officials.

A famous episode from Greek mythology depicts the Judgment of Paris. The young prince, on Zeus's orders, must decide which of three goddesses is the most beautiful: Hera, Athena, or Aphrodite. The statues show Paris with the apple as the object of contention (and the origin of the term "apple of discord") as well as Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena (from left). They were created between 1804 and 1807 by the sculptor Landolin Ohmacht in red sandstone.

Joseph Effner planned the Great Cascade, which was built in 1717. The water falls from a two-part water staircase, the first step of which is semicircular towards the west, and the second, lower step is shaped towards the east. The cascade continues the symmetry through the central channel. Originally, flanking architecture was planned, but it was never executed. Instead, four sculptures of Greek gods were relocated here from the Großer Parterre at the end of the 18th century.

The birth of the Bavarian Prince-Elector Max Emanuel from the House of Wittelsbach in 1662 was the occasion for the construction of a palace with a garden in the area between the villages of Neuhausen and Obermenzing as a gift for the young mother, Electorress Henriette Adelaide of Savoy. The foundation stone for the "Schwaigbau zu Nymphenburg" was laid in 1664. The complex was designed as a pleasure palace in the style of Italian country villas; it only became a Baroque palace complex, which could serve as a summer residence and an alternative to the seat of government, the Munich Residenz, a generation later under Max Emanuel. The model for Nymphenburg was the Piedmontese hunting lodge La Venaria, whose architect Amedeo Castellamonte (1613 to 1683) also provided the initial designs for Nymphenburg.

Greek mythology served as the inspiration for the pictorial program of the Nymphenburg Garden, created in the 18th century: The sculptures represent the sixteen main deities of Olympus. However, their placement was changed with the redesign into an English landscape park. Today, only twelve statues remain in the garden parterre; four were moved to the Great Cascade. Male and female deities alternate.

The view of the castle canal from the Ludwig Ferdinand Bridge on the city side clearly shows the dimensions of the monumental three-winged complex of Nymphenburg Palace. From 1715 to 1918, it was the summer residence of the Electors, then of the Kings of Bavaria from the House of Wittelsbach. Nymphenburg is one of the largest palaces in Germany.

This watercourse, which is largely a straight line, begins as a branch of the Würm river, coming from the Starnberger See, in the Munich district of Pasing. The amount of water taken from the Würm is regulated by a weir. Near Pipping, the canal, which initially runs parallel to the river, bends off and leads past Obermenzing to the east directly towards Nymphenburg Palace. 2800 meters after the branch from the Würm, the canal flows into the palace park and here feeds not only the cascade but the entire water system of the park, including the Great (Badenburger) and Small (Pagodenburger) Lakes. In front of the Great Parterre, it divides into two arms, which flow under the two side wings of the palace and reunite in front of the palace in a pond with a fountain. From there, the canal, dug from 1728 to 1730, continues on its original axis, also in a straight line, in the direction of Neuhausen, where it ends after about one and a half kilometers in the basin at the Hubertusbrunnen.

The Nymphenburg Canal in Munich, part of the northern Munich canal system, supplies Nymphenburg Palace Park with water from the Würm River in its western section, also known as the Pasing Canal or Pasing-Nymphenburg Canal. Its eastern section, also called the Palace Canal, serves a more ceremonial purpose. The Nymphenburg Canal begins as the Pasing-Nymphenburg Canal, branching off the Würm River in the Pasing district. The amount of water diverted from the Würm can be regulated by a weir. Initially, the canal runs parallel to the river for a short distance in a north-northeast direction. After a few hundred meters, the two waterways are reconnected by an ice-release channel. Near Pipping, the canal turns and runs past Obermenzing in a straight line eastward, directly toward Nymphenburg Palace. It originally formed the visual axis between the palace terrace and St. Wolfgang Church in Pipping, but this axis is now overgrown and obstructed. From the point where it branches off from the Würm River to the entrance gate of the palace park, the canal is approximately 2.8 km long and has a drop of four meters along this stretch. The Würm loses about a third of its water (approx. 2 m³/s) through the canal's outflow. After entering the palace park, the canal feeds the cascade located at its western end, as well as the entire park water system, including the large (Badenburg) and small (Pagodenburg) lakes (48° 9′ 25″ N, 11° 27′ 48″ E | OSM | ). These include the Central Canal in the western line of sight of the palace, the Southern Canal, which flows through Lake Badenburg and the "little village," and the Hartmannshofer Brook, which flows north from Lake Pagodenburg through the Kugelweiher pond and continues outside the palace grounds through Hartmannshofer Park. The canal's water also powers Nymphenburg Palace's pumping stations, which pressurize the water for the fountains in the palace park. The canal continues its straight course through the palace park, but before the Great Parterre, it splits into two branches that flow under the two side wings of the palace before rejoining in front of the palace to form a pond with a fountain. Each of the two branches is approximately 750 meters long. ...... Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphenburger_Kanal