St. Emmeram's Palace

St. Emmeram's Palace, also called Schloss Thurn und Taxis, is a palace of the princely house of Thurn und Taxis in Regensburg. The present palace came about through building work at the end of the 19th century. Alongside new buildings, existing buildings of the former St. Emmeram's Abbey were also converted. During the secularisation the abbey buildings passed to the princely house of Thurn und Taxis in 1803/1812. The palace is entered in the list of architectural monuments of Regensburg-Zentrum and is recorded as an architectural monument under file number D-3-62-000-351.

"Archaeological findings and finds in the area of the former Benedictine abbey of St. Emmeram, today Schloss Thurn und Taxis, from the early Middle Ages to the modern era" are additionally listed as a ground monument under file number D-3-6938-0820.

St. Emmeram's Palace attracts international attention through the annual Thurn und Taxis Palace Festival, at which superstars such as Elton John, Eros Ramazzotti and Anna Netrebko perform.

Machine-translated from “Schloss St. Emmeram” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

St. Emmeram's Palace ranks #2,195 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #168 of the 505 mapped in Germany. Founded 1812, it is older than 12% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 607 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 5,933 times in the last 60 days, more than 87% of the atlas. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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