Schaezlerpalais

The Schaezlerpalais rises in Augsburg as a Baroque city palace stretching from the street into rooms, courtyards, and gardens. Architect Carl Albert von Lespilliez shaped the complex between 1765 and 1770. At its centre, a Rococo ballroom preserves gilded mirrors, parquet flooring, chandeliers, and ornate wall panelling. Its ceiling fresco dates from 1767.

Banker Benedikt Adam Liebert von Liebenhofen commissioned the building, and Augsburg received it as a gift in 1958. Gregorio Guglielmi painted the ceiling fresco. Europe appears at the centre of an allegory of trade connecting the continents, surrounded by stucco, carvings, seasons, and zodiac signs. An enfilade runs for more than one hundred metres towards the ballroom.

Three museum levels bring together southern German paintings, Baroque works, and eighteenth-century reverse glass paintings from across Europe. The Haberstock Foundation collection includes Paolo Veronese, Canaletto, Anthony van Dyck, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. The reconstructed Baroque garden, completed in 2005, forms a quadrangle around a central fountain beside the palace. Together, garden and palace preserve a rare piece of Augsburg’s eighteenth-century urban landscape.