baroque architecture: Germany

For earlier German architecture, see Renaissance Architecture: Germany.

Perhaps the most distinctive architecture of South Germany belongs to the churches and palaces of the baroque and rococo periods such as Weltenburg abbey (by the Asam brothers); Vierzehnheiligen (by Balthasar Neumann); the monasteries of Melk, Wiblingen, Ottobeuren, St Florian, Gottweig; the Residenz, Wurzburg (by Neumann, 1719-44); the Kinsky and Trautson palaces; the Zwinger palace at Dresden; Schloss Nymphenburg at Munich (1734-9); and the rococo palace of Sans Souci at Potsdam (1745-55).

See also baroque (architecture). For later German architecture, see German Architecture: 19th Century and German architecture.