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A famous episode from Greek mythology depicts the Judgment of Paris. The young prince, on Zeus's orders, must decide which of three goddesses is the most beautiful: Hera, Athena, or Aphrodite. The statues show Paris with the apple as the object of contention (and the origin of the term "apple of discord") as well as Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena (from left). They were created between 1804 and 1807 by the sculptor Landolin Ohmacht in red sandstone.

The two-story Grüner Brunnhaus, a pumping station in the Nymphenburg Palace Garden, was supplemented in the second half of the 18th century by additional single-story small farmhouses. These are the Hirschgartenbrunnhaus, the Brunnwärterhaus, and the Biberwärterhaus. Some of them are still inhabited today. The buildings in the "village" were intended to represent the idealized notion of country life and to satisfy the court's longing for the supposed idyll of the world of farmers and shepherds.

Elector Karl Albrecht gifted his wife Amalie this Rococo building named after her, erected according to the plans of François Cuvilliés from 1734 to 1739 as a small hunting lodge for pheasant hunting. The Amalienburg is a typical late Baroque pleasure palace.

The birth of the Bavarian Prince-Elector Max Emanuel from the House of Wittelsbach in 1662 was the occasion for the construction of a palace with a garden in the area between the villages of Neuhausen and Obermenzing as a gift for the young mother, Electorress Henriette Adelaide of Savoy. The foundation stone for the "Schwaigbau zu Nymphenburg" was laid in 1664. The complex was designed as a pleasure palace in the style of Italian country villas; it only became a Baroque palace complex, which could serve as a summer residence and an alternative to the seat of government, the Munich Residenz, a generation later under Max Emanuel. The model for Nymphenburg was the Piedmontese hunting lodge La Venaria, whose architect Amedeo Castellamonte (1613 to 1683) also provided the initial designs for Nymphenburg.

Greek mythology served as the inspiration for the pictorial program of the Nymphenburg Garden, created in the 18th century: The sculptures represent the sixteen main deities of Olympus. However, their placement was changed with the redesign into an English landscape park. Today, only twelve statues remain in the garden parterre; four were moved to the Great Cascade. Male and female deities alternate.

A group of four figures on a shared pedestal adorns the Middle Flower Garden. It depicts the Judgment of Paris. The statues show Paris with the apple as the object of the dispute, Aphrodite, Hera, and Pallas Athena (from left to right); they were sculpted by Landolin Ohmacht in red sandstone (1804–1807). Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlosspark_Nymphenburg#Pagodenburg

Statues at the Great Cascade Between the upper and lower cascade basins, on either side of the falling water, are two reclining figures with urns by Giuseppe Volpini, symbolizing the Isar and Danube rivers (1715–1717). The cascade ensemble was initially complemented by two further statues by Giuseppe Volpini: Hercules with a lion (1718/19) and Minerva with an owl, spear, and shield (1722–23). These were originally located on the garden façade of Schleißheim Palace. Later, the statues of Flora (1725) and Aeolus (1725), created by Charles Dubut, were added. Around 1737, Guillaume de Grof created the statue of Neptune with a seahorse. Decades later, three more statues were added: Amphitrite with a Dolphin (1775) by Charles de Groff, and Mars with Sword and Shield (commissioned by Ignaz Günther) and Minerva with Sword and Shield (without an owl!), both by Roman Anton Boos. In 1999, the statues of Hercules with Lion by Franz Leschinger and Minerva with Owl by Geith Bildhauer und Steinmetz GmbH, Dresden, were replaced by copies; the originals are now located in the Orangery. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlosspark_Nymphenburg#Pagodenburg

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