Thursday, July 14
Today we went on an excursion to a town 15 minutes away from Bonn by train. During this excursion, we went to two different places, Augustusburg Palace and also the Falken Lust Hunting Lodge. Augustusburg was first started being built in 1725 and was completed by 1728. The Palace had two architects, Johan Conrad Schlaun, and Francois de Cuvillies. The center staircase done by Balthasar Neumann was an amazing work of art, as well as the ceiling that is seen right above this massive staircase and statues. The Palace has three main sections and is built in a U-shape. There is also a massive garden that goes along with the Palace and connects it to Falken Lust, built from 1729-1737. Both Falken Lust and Augustusburg were commissioned by Clemens Augustus the Prince Elector at the time. Falken Lust was a hunting lodge that Clemens August used to hunt Falcons. There are multiple places around both the Hunting Lodge and Augustusburg where he is dressed out in his Falcon hunting attire.
After touring the Palace and Hunting Lodge (sadly there were no pictures allowed to be taken inside either) we got back on the Train and came back to Bonn and visited Poppelsdorf Palace and the Bonn residential palace. Joseph Clemens the Elector at the time commissioned both of these buildings. Just like Augustusburg and Falken Lust you can see both of these were places were connected by a garden. The Residential Palace was built from 1697-1705 and in 1715-1723 the gardens around it were added. Poppelsdorf palace was started in 1715 and again had construction done from 1745-1746. Poppelsdorf palace is currently home to Bonn Universities botanical gardens.
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| The front view of the Bruhl Palace |
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| The Garden at Bruhl Palace |
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| Falken Lust |
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| View of Bruhl Palace from the Garden |
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| Taken from the Garden at the Bruhl Palace |
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