Herman Palace

The Hermansbau is a Baroque city palace of the Lords of Herman in Memmingen, Upper Swabia, Bavaria.

The four-winged complex with garden house and Junkerhof was completed in 1766. Baron Benedict von Herman, who mostly lived in Venice as a typical Swabian merchant – he renounced all available comfort in his Italian apartment – commissioned the representative building for his relatives in Memmingen. Benedict von Herman was then the richest Swabian and owned the largest German company in Venice. The building is one of four Baroque palaces in Memmingen. High-ranking guests once stayed there, including King Ludwig I, Emperor Franz I, and Tsar Alexander. The building is still entirely privately owned. Today, the Hermansbau is predominantly used by the city as a city museum (including the Heiss Baroque Gallery and the Freudenthal/Altvater Local History Museum). The other part is still inhabited by the von Wachter family.