New Castle Bayreuth

Heinrich von Gagern, who became president of the first German National Assembly in Frankfurt's Paulskirche in 1848, was born in the northern transverse wing of the palace in 1799. His father was a privy councilor to the Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, who lived in asylum in Bayreuth with his court from 1796 to 1800 at the invitation of the Prussian king.

• The Margravial State Rooms
• In three rooms on the ground floor of the south wing – which already served as a picture gallery in the 18th century – a branch gallery of the Bavarian State Painting Collections has been housed since August 2007, after extensive renovation. It contains 80 works of Dutch and German painting from the late 17th and 18th centuries. One of the three rooms is dedicated to the Munich court painter Peter Jakob Horemans, who was born in Antwerp.
• The Archaeological Museum of the Historical Society for Upper Franconia in parts of the ground and upper floors of the Italian Building
• Museum Wilhelmine's Bayreuth (free admission)
• Collection of Bayreuth Faience (free admission)

East of the New Palace lies the Court Garden. As early as 1580, there was a kitchen garden here, which was later transformed into a pleasure garden.

In 1679, the so-called Mailbahn was laid out, a straight oak avenue running in an east-west direction. It formed the garden's axis of symmetry and began on the west side with a magnificent gate, which, however, was demolished as early as 1744 for the planned construction of the Reformed Church. Since plots of land north of this avenue were separated several times over the centuries, the Mailbahn is now almost at the northern edge of the park.

After the construction of the New Palace, the park received an ornamental canal with two small, round islands as a new main axis. It runs from southeast to northwest parallel to the main avenue. In the eastern part of the Court Garden, it has a "dead" arm towards the southwest, which ended in a hook shape until the 1970s. During its reconstruction, a third island was created there. It received its water from the canal system of the Tappert and is now identical to it after the abandonment of the parallel branches.

The canal is flanked by two narrower avenues. Between the canal and the avenues, as well as in front of the Italian Building, there were bosquets.

From 1789, the park was transformed into an English garden. The baroque garden elements, which required particularly elaborate care, were removed, and the paths were laid out in a winding fashion. In 1795, a small round temple, a so-called monopteros, was erected on the southern edge.

The statues in the park mainly originate from an unfinished group of figures that was intended to depict the triumphal procession of Neptune. They were created in 1763 and 1764 by the sculptors Johann David Räntz and Lorenz Wilhelm Räntz and were stored for a long time in the city's building yard after the death of Margrave Friedrich in 1763. Further parts of them are incorporated into the park of Fantaisie Palace.

Currently, the park covers about 13 hectares. Part of the baroque garden design has been restored, especially around the palace.