Egloffsteinsches Palais, Baroque noble palace in Erlangen, Germany

The Egloffsteinsches Palais is a Baroque noble residence in Erlangen with a two-story rectangular layout built from cut sandstone blocks and featuring both a hipped roof and a mansard roof projection. The structure combines classical Baroque design with carefully worked natural stone craftsmanship.

Carl Maximilian von Egloffstein built the palace in 1718 on what was then the edge of Erlangen. His nephew Albrecht Christoph inherited it in 1733 and sold it around 1739 to the margravial government, which passed it to the University of Erlangen in 1745 in exchange for a house in Bayreuth. The university's plans for an anatomical theatre, chemical laboratory and observatory came to nothing, and in 1749 it sold the building to the city for 8,000 guilders.

The grand hall on the upper floor displays stucco work by Bavarian master Andrea Domenico Cadenazzi, created between 1720 and 1725 and still visible to visitors today. These ornate decorations shape the room's visual character and represent valuable details of the interior that guests can observe.

The complex has two street addresses: Friedrichstraße 17 on the north wing and Südliche Stadtmauerstraße 28 on the south wing, with the main front facing Schuhstraße to the east. The Volkshochschule and the Deutsch-Französische Institut occupy the building today, so the wings are in institutional use rather than open as a museum. The courtyard, reached through the archways, is the easiest place to see the facades and the wooden gallery with turned balusters.

The stucco in the first-floor hall is attributed to the Bayreuth master Andrea Domenico Cadenazzi and dates from 1720 to 1725. Above the marble fireplaces at the ends of the room, decorative wall panels hold relief busts of Roman emperors beneath lambrequins, and stucco candelabra with putti medallions stand in the corners. Most of the building's other stucco has not survived.