Object information:

Address

Eremitage 4
95448 Bayreuth
(09 21) 7 59 69-37
fax (09 21) 7 59 69-87

Responsible administrative office

Schloss- und Gartenverwaltung
Bayreuth-Eremitage
Ludwigstraße 21
95444 Bayreuth
(09 21) 7 59 69-0
Fax (09 21) 7 59 69-15
sgvbayreuth@
bsv.bayern.de
www.bayreuth-wilhelmine.de

Opening hours

April-September: 9 am-6 pm
1-15 October: 10 am-4 pm
open daily
closed 16 Oktober-30 March

Waterworks

from May to October every hour:
Bassin at the New Palace:
10 am - 6 pm
Lower Grotto:
10.15 am - 5.15 pm

Admission charges 2013

4.50 euros regular
3.50 euros reduced

Guided tours

There are tours (in German) every 45 minutes.
April-September from 9 am, October from 10 am;
Last guided tour:
April-September: 5.15 pm
October: 3.15 pm

Combination ticket
"Die Welt der Wilhelmine"
(all Bayreuth objects):
12 euros regular
10 euros reduced

Annual season tickets /
14-days-tickets

Overview about all admission charges and opening hours
download (pdf-file)

Palaces accessible for wheelchairs, which can also be hired on request. Most of the park is accessible for wheelchairs, with the exception of certain areas with steep paths.

Shop at Hermitage New Palace
www.schloesser-
bayern-shop.de

Hotel-Restaurant Orangerie
Tel. (09 21) 79 99 70
www.eremitage-bayreuth.de

Café Orangerie, Neues Schloss Eremitage
Tel. (09 21) 79 99 70

Bayreuth
www.bahn.de

Bus to "Eremitage" or to "Ochsenhut"

Car and bus parking spaces at the entrance to the park

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Hermitage Old Palace – Bayreuth

Margrave In 1715 Margrave Georg Wilhelm built the Old Palace near the residential town of Bayreuth as the central feature of a court hermitage. In 1753, when Margrave Friedrich took over the government of the margraviate, he presented the Hermitage to his wife Wilhelmine.

Japanese Cabinet
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Fascinated by this unique complex, the margravine immediately began enlarging it, first adding new rooms to the Old Palace including a Music Room, a Japanese Cabinet and the Chinese Mirror Cabinet, in which she wrote her celebrated memoirs. Between 1743 and 1745 various buildings and fountains such as the Ruined Theatre and the Lower Grotto with the hermitage of Margrave Friedrich were produced from designs by Joseph St Pierre. The New Palace and the Upper Grotto were built from 1749 to 1753.

In the sections added by Wilhelmine to the existing gardens she introduced traditional baroque elements such as hedge gardens, pergolas and waterworks. Created in an era when there were no gardens of this type at all in Germany, the Hermitage is thus unique amongst the gardens of the 18th century.

Hermitage Court Garden

Further information you will find on
www.bayreuth-wilhelmine.de