page_title: Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria
section_title: Cultural legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria / Cultural legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Castle Starnberg and ship Bucentaurus made by Michael Wening in Topographia Bavariae about 1700 Deutsch: Kupferstich von Schloss Starnberg mit Prunkschiff Bucentaurus von Michael Wening in der Topographia Bavariae um 1700
context_page_description: Ferdinand Maria was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and an elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 1651 to 1679.
context_section_description: Ferdinand Maria married Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy in 1650; and with her, the Italian Baroque was introduced in Bavaria.
  The Theatiner Church in Munich was built from 1663 onwards as a gesture of thanks for the birth of the long-awaited heir to the Bavarian crown, Prince Maximilian II Emanuel. After that in 1664, Ferdinand Maria and his wife commissioned the building of the Baroque style Nymphenburg Palace near Munich based on the designs of Italian architect Agostino Barelli. Lake Starnberg was purchased by Ferdinand Maria from the Horwarth family and it became the venue of numerous festivities of the court with the famous fleet of Venetian Gondolas. On the lake's shores, he ordered the construction of Berg Castle in 1676. The castle was used for festivities there and later reached its zenith when it became the scene of spectacular entertainments and hunts under the rule of his successors, Maximilian Emanuel and Emperor Charles VII. For the Munich Residenz, Ferdinand Maria ordered the creation of the Papal Rooms.
caption: Copperplate engraving by Michael Wening Starnberg Castle with Ferdinand Maria's gondola Bucentaurus in Topographia Bavariae about 1700
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