Object information:

Responsible administrative office

Schlossverwaltung Neuburg
Residenzstraße 2
86633 Neuburg/Donau
(0 84 31) 64 43-0
Fax (0 84 31) 64 43-44
svneuburg@
bsv.bayern.de

Opening hours

April-September: 9 am-6 pm
October-March: 10 am-4 pm
closed Mondays

Closed on:
1.1., Shrove Tuesday, 24.12., 25.12., 31.12.

Guided tours

No regular guided tours

Admission charges 2013

5.50 euros regular
4.50 euros reduced

Annual season tickets /
14-days-tickets

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

Access to entrance hall via ramp; lift and toilet available for the disabled

Archaeological Museum Neuburg (Branch of the Bavarian State Archaeological Collection Munich – Museum of Pre- and Early History)

Waiting room and cafeteria

Neuburg
www.bahn.de

Bus to "Amtsgericht" or to "Karlsplatz"

No own car park

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Neuburg Palace

Neuburg State Gallery –
Flemish Baroque Painting

With almost 160 masterpieces from the time of Peter Paul Rubens, the new State Gallery is an impressive documentation of the Flemish school, with characteristic works of all types from history and landscape painting to portraits, genre paintings and still lifes.

This unique collection is primarily the legacy of two passionate collectors from the House of Wittelsbach: Elector Max Emanuel von Bayern in Munich (1662-1726) and Elector Johann Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg in Düsseldorf (1658-1716).

Painting "Die Ausgießung des Heiligen Geistes" ("Outpouring of the Holy Spirit")

"Die Ausgießung des
Heiligen Geistes"
("Descent of the
Holy Spirit"), Peter
Paul Rubens, 1619
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to enlarge

Johann Wilhelm's grandfather Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg (1578-1653) had already commissioned altar paintings for the Court Church in Neuburg from Peter Paul Rubens: The "Great Last Judgement" (1617) for the main altar (which is actually the largest of all Rubens' works and is now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich) as well as an "Adoration of the Shepherds" (1619) and a "Descent of the Holy Spirit" for the side altars (1619).

Duke Johann Wilhelm removed the "Great Last Judgement" from the Neuburg church in 1691 and the two side altar pictures in 1703 and transferred them to his Düsseldorf gallery. At the end of the 18th century, when the Palatinate line of the Wittelsbachs died out, the paintings were taken to Munich. Now, after 300 years, the side altar pictures have returned to the town they were originally created for.

As well as eight further paintings by Rubens and his workshop, the Neuburg collection also contains portraits and history paintings by the two other outstanding Antwerp painters of this period, Anthonis van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens.

Painting "Pope Nicolaus V visits the grave of Franz von Assisi", G. Douffet

"Papst Nikolaus V.
besucht das Grab des Hl. Franz von Assisi"
("Pope Nicolas V
visiting the tomb of
Saint Francis of Assisi"),
1627, Gérard Douffet
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to enlarge

Brilliant, large-format works of the Lüttich School, in particular by the leading painters Gérard Douffet and Bertholet Flémalle, are on display again for the first time in decades. These masterpieces can be seen in the newly renovated rooms of the west wing of Neuburg Palace, known as the Ottheinrich Building.

Count Palatine Ottheinrich (1502-1559) from the Palatinate line of the House of Wittelsbach, began enlarging his residence in 1528. At the heart of the west wing and thus also of the new gallery is the Large Hall on the second floor, which with a length of 50 metres and a width of 17 metres is the largest hall with an unsupported ceiling north of the Alps; it is now used for displaying the large-format masterpieces.

Painting "Der Winter", 1616, Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrik van Balen the Elder

"Der Winter", 1616,
Jan Brueghel the Elder
and Hendrik van Balen
the Elder
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to enlarge

The rooms on the lower floor of the west tract house the smaller paintings of the Flemish baroque era. On display are landscapes by the Brueghel family and by Jan Wildens and Lucas van Uden, who worked closely with Rubens, as well as still lifes by Frans Snyders and Daniel Seghers, seascapes by Andries Artvelt and Bonaventura Peeters and genre paintings by David Teniers and Gillis van Tilborch.