The classicist summer palace “Schönbusch Castle” comprises ten rooms furnished in the Louis XVI style. Access is possible as part of guided tours. Its idyllic location is particularly noteworthy, as it is situated in one of Germany's earliest and largest landscape gardens, Schönbusch Park. The former kitchen building now houses a visitor center, which focuses on the exhibition “Everything Seems Natural” about the history and development of the park. From 1775 onwards, the Archbishop of Mainz, Friedrich Carl von Erthal, had his wildlife park redesigned in the English landscape style with the significant involvement of his Minister of State, Count Wilhelm von Sickingen, and the architect Emanuel Joseph d'Herigoyen. From 1775 onwards, artificial lakes and watercourses were dug, hills were raised and a winding belt path was laid out. The first building in the park designed by d'Herigoyen was the Electoral Pavilion (1778–1782), a classicist summer palace that is now called “Schönbusch Palace.” In addition to the palace, the park buildings included the farm building, the shepherds' houses, and the village as picturesque rural scenery, the Temple of Friendship and the Philosopher's House, the observation tower, the dining hall, and the Red Bridge, all of which were added by 1788/89. The landscape architect Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (1750–1823) was commissioned to complete the gardens in 1783 at the latest. Here, Sckell was able to apply the principles of landscape design he had learned in England for the first time in a park that was newly laid out as a whole. He left behind one of the most important landscape gardens in Germany.

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