Weilburg Palace and Palace Gardens

The medieval castle turned into a baroque residence at the beginning of the 18th century, with numerous outbuildings, a church and a spacious garden. The park is open all year until dusk. The entrance to the castle costs 5 euros including tour. On Mondays, the gates remain closed.

Lower Orangery
The Lower Orangery was built in 1711-1713. It separates the upper from the lower castle garden. It is the only building of the extension built under Johann Ernst that has a façade arrangement. This consists of 15 axes and is modeled on the Orangery of Versailles Palace. This break in the facade design was possible because the High Castle cannot be seen from the Lower Orangery and therefore the facade did not have to be adapted to the High Castle. The lower orangery faces south. It is used for overwintering potted plants.
Upper Orangery
Upper Orangery from the Palace Garden

The Upper Orangery is located south of the High Castle and connects the High Castle with the Castle Church and the Castle Park. It was built in the years 1703-1705 according to plans by Julius Ludwig Rothweil. It consists of a central ballroom and two flanking galleries. The Upper Orangery has large French doors to the east towards the castle garden. The alliance coat of arms of Johann-Ernst von Nassau-Weilburg and Maria Polyxena von Leiningen-Hartenberg is attached to a triangular gable above the central projection.

She fulfilled several tasks. On the one hand, like its predecessor, it served as a church passage, through which the high castle is directly connected to the church, and on the other hand as the castle's large ballroom. Exotic plants were also housed here for the winter. With the construction of the lower orangery, it was almost exclusively used as a banquet hall. Rothweil wanted Delft tiles for the wall cladding. Since these were too expensive for the builder Johann Ludwig, he had imitation tiles painted in the upper orangery by Georg Friedrich Christian Seekatz in 1548.
castle garden
Weilburg Castle Park
The terraces of the Weilburg Palace Park seen from König-Konrad-Platz
The forerunner of the palace garden was laid out between 1523 and 1559. For this purpose, the cemetery had to be moved to Frankfurter Strasse, which had previously been between the high castle and the church.
As part of the expansion of the palace, the garden was redesigned as a French garden. It was created by the two gardeners Francois LeMarie from 1700 and Johann Michael Petri from 1708. It extends southwards from the high castle down over several artificial terraces. Its total area is about 3.3 hectares.
Source; Wikipedia (in extracts) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Weilburg

Weilburg is especially after a bike ride down the river in one of the beer gardens sitting a dream. ;-)