Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Brühl

**Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Brühl**
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Schloss Augustusburg
Location	Germany
Coordinates	50°49′39″N 6°54′29″E / 50.8275°N 6.9080555555556°E / 50.8275; 6.9080555555556
Includes	Augustusburg Falkenlust
Criteria	Cultural: (ii), (iv) ^[1]
Reference	288
Inscription	1984 (8th Session)
Location of Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Brühl
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The Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces form a historical building complex in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which has been listed as a UNESCO cultural World Heritage Site since 1984. The buildings are connected by the spacious gardens and trees of the Schlosspark. Augustusburg Palace (German: Schloss Augustusburg) and its parks also serve as a venue for the Brühl Palace Concerts. The Max Ernst Museum is located nearby.

The basin in the park

The palaces were built at the beginning of the 18th century by the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Clemens August of Bavaria of the Wittelsbach family. The architects were Johann Conrad Schlaun and François de Cuvilliés. The main block of Augustusburg Palace is a U-shaped building with three main storeys and two levels of attics. The magnificent staircase was designed by Johann Balthasar Neumann.

Falkenlust hunting lodge

The gardens were designed by Dominique Girard. An elaborate flower garden for an area south of the palaces was also designed, but it was restructured by Peter Joseph Lenné in the 19th century and turned into a landscape garden. Attempts to renovate the area have proven difficult, due to poor source material availability.

Falkenlust hunting lodge was designed by François de Cuvilliés and built from 1729 to 1740, in the style of the Amalienburg hunting lodge in the park of Nymphenburg Palace.

From shortly after World War II until 1994, Augustusburg was used as a reception hall for guests of state by the German President, as it is not far from Bonn, which was the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany at that time.

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World Heritage Sites in Germany
For official site names, see each article or the List of World Heritage Sites in Germany.
Northern	Fagus Factory in Alfeld Berlin Modernism Housing Estates Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus in Hamburg St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Michael's Church at Hildesheim Hanseatic City of Lübeck Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar
Central	Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz ~~Dresden Elbe Valley~~ (delisted in 2009) Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski¹ Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg Wartburg Castle Classical Weimar
Western	Aachen Cathedral Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey Cologne Cathedral Upper Middle Rhine Valley Speyer Cathedral Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier Völklingen Ironworks Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen
Southern	Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier (Weissenhof Estate) Town of Bamberg Frontiers of the Roman Empire:² Upper Germanic & Rhaetian Limes Maulbronn Monastery Complex Margravial Opera House Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof Monastic Island of Reichenau Pilgrimage Church of Wies Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps³ Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura
Natural	Ancient Beech Forests⁴ Messel Pit Fossil Site Wadden Sea⁵
¹ Shared with Poland ² Shared with the United Kingdom ³ Shared with Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland ⁴ Shared with Slovakia and Ukraine ⁵ Shared with the Netherlands and Denmark

↑ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/288.

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Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Brühl

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