Schönbornslust

Prince Elector Franz Georg von Schönborn constructed Schloss Schönbornslust as a hunting lodge between 1748 and 1752.

[1][2] The design was based on plans by Balthasar Neumann and the construction was supervised by his pupil Johanness Seiz.

[1][2] After the start of the French Revolution in 1789, Elector Clemens Wenzeslaus von Sachsen offered refuge in the palace to members of the French royal family (King Louis XVI was his nephew).

[1][2] After the emigrants left the palace, the Prussian king Frederick William II stayed there for a few days in July 1792.

[1][2] In the First Coalition War in October 1794, the French revolutionary army approached Koblenz from the North after the battle of Fleurus.

Schönbornslust reconstruction
Franz Georg von Schönborn
Schönbornslust in 1790
Schönbornslust reconstruction including ground plan and a preliminary design by Balthasar Neumann
Map of Koblenz and its northern surroundings (2nd half 18th century) showing the residential landscape north of Koblenz with the locations of the palaces Schönbornslust, Kärlich and Engers
Plan of Schönbornslust and its direct surroundings (1786)