A warm welcome to Güstrow Palace-
Renaissance-jewel in the north of Germany
Güstrow Palace is one of the largest preserved Renaissance buildings in Mecklenburg and one of the few still preserved representative palaces of the Renaissance in the whole of North Germany. The building, constructed for representation was built as a residence for the sovereign in the second half of the 16th-century.
Duke Ulrich of Mecklenburg engaged in two building phases the Italian master builder Franz Parr and the Dutch Philipp Brandin, who created an amalgamation of Italian, French and middle-European tradition into one building of European status.
Güstrow Palace offers its visitors apart from splendidly decorated parlours, a richly assembled permanent exhibition. It is an important medieval collection, art and crafts of the Renaissance, ducal hunting and splendour weapons, glass from antiquity to the present, paintings of the DDR, antique ceramics and contemporary art.
The Wallenstein's short reign in Güstrow is being honoured with its own section. The reconstruction of the palace facility included also a new design of the palace garden. The main attraction of the palace is without doubt the large ballroom with its stucco ceiling, finished in 1620.