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Sanspareil Castle Café (Kitchen Building) & Baroque Garden

Sanspareil Castle Café (Kitchen Building) & Baroque Garden

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Sanspareil Castle Café (Kitchen Building) & Baroque Garden

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Location: Wonsees, Landkreis Kulmbach, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

May 28, 2025

The stone house was once the kitchen building for the oriental palace; today it houses a modern café with a historic ambiance and a charming view of the Baroque garden. The menu features a wide variety of cakes and tarts, as well as a selection of savory snacks.

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Wolly

August 21, 2021

Sanspareil ([sɑ̃paˈʀɛj], German without equal, the locals pronounce the word Sanspareil in German) is a village in the municipality of Wonsees (district of Kulmbach in Upper Franconia), which is known for the Sanspareil rock garden below the medieval Hohenzollernburg Zwernitz.
Margravine Wilhelmine von Bayreuth, sister of Frederick the Great, had this garden laid out in 1744. Joseph Saint-Pierre and Giovanni Battista Pedrozzi are named as architects of the rock garden. The name of the park goes back to the exclamation of a lady-in-waiting of the Bayreuth margrave: "C’est sans pareil!" (This is unparalleled!). Margravine Wilhelmine also intended to have the water features that were common at the time. However, given the location, this was not feasible with the resources at the time, so that the entire system could not be expanded any further. The interest of the margravine therefore decreased significantly. The garden was completed by Margrave Carl Alexander. The rock theater was designed as a Roman ruin with a natural rock grotto serving as an auditorium.

In the centuries that followed, the complex fell into disrepair. The many buildings disappeared because they were only made of wood - especially in the park - or were sold for demolition to make way for a street. At the moment only the oriental building, the rock theater and the kitchen building are left. In 1984 the lowered ground floor between the oriental building and the kitchen building was reconstructed based on an engraving from 1748.

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Rosi_1

February 13, 2021

Built 1744 - 1748 for the Bayreuth market count Friedrich and his wife Wilhelmine (sister of Friedrich the Great).
The stone house used to be the kitchen for the oriental castle, today it houses a modern café with a historical ambience and an enchanting view of the well-tended and colorful baroque garden.
The cream puffs are a particular specialty of the Schlosscafé. The shortbread biscuits are traditionally filled with cherries and whipped cream. There are several types of cream puffs in the Schlosscafé, including filled with eggnog, chocolate, brittle and fresh fruit, depending on the season.

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Location: Wonsees, Landkreis Kulmbach, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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Sanspareil Castle Café (Kitchen Building) & Baroque Garden

1. 🏛️ Sanspareil Rock Garden – Aeolus Rock loop from Großenhül

2. Juniper Valley near Wonsees – 🏛️ Sanspareil Rock Garden loop from Wonsees

3. Aeolus Rock – 🏛️ Felsengarten Sanspareil loop from Sanspareil

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