[1]: 10 Schloss Weißenstein is located in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg in the village of Pommersfelden, Bavaria, Germany.

In 1710, Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Archbishop of Mainz, inherited the estate after the local family, the Truchsesse of Pommersfelden had died out.

[1]: 6 [2]: 229 After the death of Lothar Franz in 1729, the palace passed to his nephew Friedrich Karl von Schönborn who had the park expanded.

[2]: 230 The triangular gable of the main building on the garden front with its coat of arms of the Schönborns has been carved from the same material.

[2]: 230 The gable facing the cour d'honneur also has the family coat of arms, flanked by lions and crowned by Mercury.

[2]: 230 There are four sculpture groups (sandstone) in front of the ground floor of the main pavilion, two each on the garden and the courtyard side.

On the cour d'honneur side, the figures are somewhat obscure and have been interpreted as allegories of Justice & Victory and Vigilance & Truth.

A carved dog wears a collar with the initials "LFC", referring to the builder, Lothar Franz Churfürst.

The large ceiling fresco by Johann Rudolf Byss (1713), who later became the director of the palace gallery of paintings, shows the four then known continents, around a central sun wagon of Phoebus Apollo.

To the west he created an image of Ionic columns flanking views of an ideal Italian landscape under a sky populated by Flora and Pomona floating on clouds.

Schönborn had collected a large number of paintings by contemporary artists, many of them Dutch, that were hung in up to four vertical rows, completely covering the gallery walls.

Schönborn also collected East Asian porcelain delivered to him en masse by members of the Jesuits whom he supported.

[2]: 232–3 The palace chapel features three important works of art: an Italian Lamentation of Christ (17th century), a Man of Sorrows from Spain (ca.

[2]: 233 The Marstall (stables building) is located to the south of the cour d'honneur and is connected to the wings of the palace by wrought-iron railings.

Built by Johann Dientzendorffer based on plans by Maximilian von Welsch 1714—17, it has a concave front facing the courtyard.

After 1722, on the suggestion of his nephew Friedrich Carl, Schönborn summoned Abraham Huber from Salzburg, who by 1723 had the fountains running.

Baroque and Renaissance artists represented include Artemisia Gentileschi, Peter Paul Rubens, Albrecht Dürer, Titian, Rembrandt and Anthony van Dyck.