Bruchsal's magnificent Rococo castle, one of the…

Bruchsal's magnificent Rococo castle, one of the most distinguished in Germany, is built between 1722 and 1732 under a commission of Cardinal Damian Hugo von Schönborn. (Largely destroyed in the Second World War, it has since been restored.).

Lying along the Saalbach (Saal Stream), just northeast of Karlsruhe, in southwestern Germany, Bruchsal had been first mentioned in 796 as the site of a Frankish royal villa.

Given to the prince-bishops of Speyer in 1056, it had become their residence in 1720.