Germany Guide
Central Bavaria
Oberschleissheim
The small town of Oberschleissheim, just outside Munich, is where the Wittelsbachs built the magnificent Baroque Neues Schloss (Tues– Sun: April– Sept 9am–6pm; Oct– March 10am–4pm; €4, or €6 combined ticket with Lustheim and Altes Schloss; 
www.schloesser-schleissheim.de ), designed by Enrico Zuccalli. Work started under Elector Max Emanuel in 1701, but the intervention of the War of the Spanish Succession left the palace an incomplete shell and work was only finally completed in 1719; of the four wings originally planned, only one was built. This however is quite imposing enough, with a glorious sequence of ceremonial rooms united by the theme of Max Emanuel's fame. An international team of artists laboured to create the interiors, including the stucco worker Johann Baptist Zimmermann, the ornamental metalworker Antoine Motté and the sculptor Guiseppe Volpini.
The magnificent Baroque Hofgarten stretches away from the east front of the Neues Schloss, has never been substantially remodelled and thus is rare in preserving its original Baroque form. At the eastern end of the garden, the little hunting lodge of Schloss Lustheim (same hours; €3, or €6 combined ticket) houses a collection of Meissen porcelain.
To the west of the Neues Schloss stands the much smaller Renaissance Altes Schloss (same hours; €2.50, or €6 combined ticket) which contains two museums, one comprising images of private piety and public religious festivals from around the world, and another cataloguing the vanished culture of the former Prussian provinces of East and West Prussia, now mainly part of Poland, whose German-speaking inhabitants fled or were expelled as the Red Army swept across Europe in 1945.
Oberschleissheim is also home to the Deutsches Museum's Flugwerft Schleissheim (daily 9am–5pm; €6), which houses the museum's collection of historic aircraft.
To reach Oberschleissheim, take S-Bahn 1 (direction Freising) from Munich.