The Prinz Carl Palais in

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is a mansion built in the style of early Neoclassicism in 1804–1806. It was also known as the Palais Salabert and the Palais Royal, after its former owners. The Prinz-Carl-Palais was planned in 1803 by the young architect Karl von Fischer for Abbé Pierre de Salabert, a former teacher of King

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. On the death of the Abbé Salabert in 1807, Maximilian I Joseph acquired the building. After his death in 1825, his son,

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, gave the building to his brother Prince Carl. He ordered Jean-Baptiste Métevier and Anton Schwanthaler to decorate the rooms. After Carl's death the Palais served as Diplomatic mission for Austria-Hungary from 1876 onwards before it became a residence for the Bavarian Prime Ministers in 1924.

References

*C. Karnehm, "Bauten und Denkmäler im Englischen Garten einst und heute von A-Z",110-133 (121-2 on the Prinz-Carl-Palais) in P. von Freyberg (ed.) ''Der Englische Garten in München'', Munich: Knürr, 2000. *J. H. Biller and H.-P. Rasp, ''München, Kunst und Kultur'', 134–5. Munich: Südwest, 2006.

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