"What Versailles is to Paris, Potsdam to Berlin, Schönbrunn to Vienna and Nymphenburg to Munich, Biebrich Palace of the princes and later dukes of Nassau is to Wiesbaden." (after: Professor Dr. Gottfried Kiesow, essay "Schloss Biebrich und sein Park: Der schönste Zugang zu Wiesbaden" in: From Biebrich to Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 1998)

Well, Wiesbaden and especially Biebrich are smaller than Paris, Berlin, Vienna or Munich - so the palace can be a little smaller.

Nevertheless, Biebrich Palace impresses with its south-facing location directly on the Rhine - especially when the sun is shining. The palace's English landscape garden with its old, tall trees invites you to linger.

Count Georg August Samuel von Nassau-Idstein was elevated to the rank of prince in 1688, and it was then "necessary" to build a palace.

A French park and a garden pavilion - the later corner building of the palace to the west - were created at around the same time. A French garden requires a completely flat terrain, but the area that was available sloped down towards the Rhine. Boundary walls were built to the west, east and south and earth was piled up until the garden was level. An identical building was soon erected opposite the garden pavilion - 86 meters away. Subsequently, the center was completed and upgraded with a rotunda. This was followed by the two side wings of the palace.

This resulted in a special feature that only exists in Biebrich: The three wings of the palace form the cour d'honneur, the court of honor - but normally on the side facing away from the park, in Biebrich on the park side.

The park was extended piece by piece and the orangery, which closed off the French Park, was sold to Frankfurt, where it formed the basis of the Palm Garden together with buildings and plants.

With the expansion of the garden, it was converted into an English landscape garden by the horticulturalist Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell, incorporating an artificial castle ruin, the Moosburg.

There is still much to tell about the castle's more recent history,
the Whitsun tournament in the park, the striking weeping beech in the cour d'honneur.

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