The Royal Palace of Berchtesgaden is characterised by a variety of different stylistic periods: from Romanesque to Gothic and Baroque to Rococo. Over the centuries, it has been repeatedly extended and altered. The cloister and its late Romanesque sculptural decoration document its high medieval origins. After 1818, the former monastery served the Wittelsbach dynasty as a hunting lodge. Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria (1869-1955) lived here with his family from 1922 to 1933 and had the rooms furnished with exhibits from Wittelsbach art collections.