The Electoral Palace in Koblenz stands on the bank of the Rhine. Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony, the last Archbishop and Elector of Trier, built it from 1777 to 1793. Pierre Michel d'Ixnard was the first chief architect, but he was dismissed in December 1779. Antoine-François Peyre the Younger replaced him, and his modified plans of 1780 were built.
It is one of the most important early French neoclassical great houses in southwestern Germany. A main building parallel to the river is joined by two semicircular wings around a forecourt, and an eight-column portico faces the city.
Bombs left the palace a shell in 1944, and it was rebuilt in 1950 and 1951. It now houses federal government offices.
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