Herrnsheimer Schloss, Empire style palace in Worms, Germany.
Herrnsheimer Schloss is an Empire style palace in Worms with a main building featuring a round tower. The structure sits within a 10.5-hectare English landscape garden containing ponds, islands, and woodlands that visitors can explore on foot.
Philipp Kämmerer von Worms, called von Dalberg, built a fortified building at Herrnsheim in 1460. It was badly damaged in the Thirty Years' War and burned by French troops in 1689 during the War of the Palatine Succession; rebuilding began in 1711 under architect Johann Kaspar Herwarthel. In 1792 the castle was heavily damaged again when Adam-Philippe de Custine occupied the left bank of the Rhine. From 1809 Duke Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg had it rebuilt in two phases (exterior 1809–1813, interiors 1820–1825) to plans by Jakob Friedrich Dyckerhoff.
The palace is closed to the public since 2021 for extensive renovation, so its Empire-style rooms cannot currently be visited. The adjacent English landscape park, redesigned from 1788 to 1793 by Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell and extended by his pupil Johann Michael Zeyher until 1824, remains open and is used for walks.
The palace has been closed to the public since 2021 for extensive restoration, with completion not expected before the end of the 2020s; the representative rooms were previously shown on regular guided tours. The 10.5-hectare park, laid out from 1788 to 1793 and extended until 1824, remains the part of the estate to walk through.
The English landscape park was laid out from 1788 to 1793 for Heribert von Dalberg to plans by Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell, and his pupil Johann Michael Zeyher extended it until 1824. The round tower at the west end of the palace, apart from its 19th-century top floor, is among the oldest surviving parts of the complex.
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