At the beginning of the 18th century, a simple two-story
manor house was built. It had a
hip roof and divided by windows in five axes.
Prince-Elector Charles Theodor gave it to
Geheimrat Freiherr Stephan von Stengel as a
knightly fief in 1784. In 1803, King
Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria bought the building and gifted it to his wife
Caroline as a country house. It was redesigned in 1804 to plans by court architect
Franz Thun, before five-axis extensions were added to both sides in 1825. Queen Caroline used the palace as her widow's residence after the death of her husband. In the palace gardens, which also no longer exist, there was a
belvedere by
Karl von Fischer. This was demolished during the building of the
Neues Schloss. In front of the
Altes Schloss, there was a lake, Biedersteiner See, with two small islands. The lake was fed by an inlet from the
Schwabinger Bach. In the period between 1826 and 1830, the
classicist Neues Schloss was built according to plans by architect
Leo von Klenze. The
Neues Schloss was demolished in 1934 and on this site there were residential buildings, an office for the publishing house
C. H. Beck and probably (albeit only for a short time if it was the case) a riding school for the
SS. The
Alte Schloss was destroyed in 1944 during World War II. In 1945, the remaining ruins were demolished. Duke Luitpold Emanuel in Bayern sold the property of Schloss Biederstein. From 1951 to 1955 a student housing complex was built according to plans from the architects Otto Roth and Harald Roth in collaboration with
Charles Crodel, who in created the
faience wall of its garden hall in 1954. == References ==