Exterior view

Schlaun spent the last six years of his life, from 1767 to 1773, on lavish plans and works for the new palace of the prince-bishop in M�nster, intended to be sited at the citadel. The unoccupied ground between the palace and the town was to be transformed into a great park with avenues and squares on the French model. The palace itself was designed around three wings. The narrow sides were given their own fa�ades. The main house therefore gives the effect of very shallow modeling for a Baroque building, perhaps anticipating the Neo-classical manner just coming into fashion. The palace can be seen in many of its details as a transitional building. When Schlaun died in 1773, only the exterior was finished.The interior was executed by Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper (1733-1800), who completed it in a Neo-classical style in 1782.