"Augustusburg Palace on a Very Rainy Day" Augustusburg by Kathrin_E

Augustusburg palace appeared in lectures about Renaissance architecture in Germany during my art history studies at regular intervals: every time my professor did a clas or lecture about the development of the early modern palace. Now that I visited the area, of course I had to see it.

The day we chose was far from perfect, though. It was grey and overcast with a mix of drizzle, rain, heavy rain and few short intervals in between. Landscape views were limited, and the hike from the train station up to the castle on a steep forest trail - we could not take the funicular up because the thing does not run on Monday mornings - was far from funny.

Anyway, the palace kept us busy for most of the day. There is the building and there are some rooms with various murals, and the palace chapel which was of special importance to me for study-related reasons (I won't bother you with details).

Apart from all that, the palace complex contains several museums about various topics - they are described one by one in the Things to do tip section.

My favourite was the carriage museum in the stable wing, which presents an assortment of about any kind of vehicle that was drawn by horses in the 18th and 19th century. Among them are some beautiful state carriages like this one.