Schloss Lustheim
Schloss Lustheim was commissioned around 1684 by Maximilian II Emanuel for his wife, the Austrian princess Maria Antonia. Designed by Enrico Zuccalli to be the focal point of the formal gardens of the Schloss Schleißheim park complex.
The grand ground floor comprises of the elector’s and electress’s appartments and a great central double height banqueting hall with ceiling frescos by Johann Anton Gumpp, Francesco Rosa and Johann Andreas Trubillio. A basement contains utilities and servants quarters. A belvedere on top provides a view of the surrounding countryside and down the garden canal to the New Palace.
Today the palace houses Meissen porcelain donated by the industrialist Professor Ernst Schneider (1900-1977) and is run as a branch of the Bavarian National Museum.