Castle Suresnes

Schloss Suresnes stands in Munich’s Schwabing district. Built between 1715 and 1718, it was designed by Johann Baptist Gunetzrhainer for Franz von Wilhelm. The small palace follows the style of the Château de Suresnes near Paris. After years of neglect in the early 19th century, it was restored by Friedrich Wilhelm von Jordan in 1823. The building later housed notable figures such as Carl August von Steinheil and the sculptor Elisabet Ney. The house became a meeting place for young artists in the late 19th century. In 1918 painter Hans Reichel lived there and hosted Paul Klee for three months. During the Munich Soviet Republic, Reichel hid the revolutionary Ernst Toller in his flat until Toller’s arrest in June 1919. The estate passed to the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising in 1937 and now serves as a conference centre for the Catholic Academy in Bavaria. The two-storey building has a nine-bay front and a three-bay central section rising to three floors. On the garden side a single-storey rotunda leads to a first-floor terrace. The palace sits in a one-hectare park laid out with a French garden measuring about twenty by forty metres.