Brannenburg Castle

Brannenburg Castle from the south.

Representation of the castle around 1700 by Michael Wening

The Brannenburg Castle is located in the town of Brannenburg on the northern edge of the Alps in the Lower Inn Valley in the Upper Bavarian district of Rosenheim . The multi-part castle complex in English neo-Gothic now houses schools and a boarding school .

history

The place Brannenburg was first mentioned in a document between 993 and 1000. The name Brannenburg can be traced back to the fact that space for a settlement was made at this point by clearing and burning (the municipal coat of arms still indicates this today). The place belonged as a closed village to the castle and later Hofmark Brannenburg. A noble family called von Brannenburg (Prantenperch) were ministerials of the Counts of Falkenstein and died out in the 14th century. The most famous inhabitant of the castle was probably the military leader Kaspar II. Winzerer , who also received the court marque justice for the castle. In 1554, the property passed to Hans Caspar von Pienzenau, who had it converted into a renaissance castle. Major Max Reinhardt had the palace rebuilt in the English neo-Gothic style between 1872 and 1875. In the 1960s it became the Institut Schloss Brannenburg , a state-recognized private secondary school and private technical college with boarding school for boys and girls.

description

Multi-part complex in English neo-Gothic, built by Joseph von Schmaedel for Major Max Reinhardt in 1872–1875 , main castle in the core with a previous building from 1561:

Main castle consists of three three-storey plastered structures with saddle roofs , segmented arched windows , stepped gables , corner turrets , crenellated wreaths , towers with battlements, plastered structures as well as decorative ornaments and sculptures made of stone

Castle chapel of the Holy Cross connected to the main castle , saddle roof construction with a front south tower with a dome roof, pointed arched windows with tracery and plastered structures, neo-Gothic, around 1858; with equipment

Western outbuilding, two-story saddle roof building with two-story extensions with flat roofs, stepped gable and plaster structures, neo-Gothic, probably 1872–1875

Southern outbuilding, ground floor building with a hip roof with a two-story dwelling with stepped gable and segmented arched windows, neo-Gothic, probably 1872–1875

Park, 19th century

Fountain of Neptune, oval and polygonal basin with wrought iron grids and bronze figure of Neptune, 18th century

literature

Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Weidlich Verlag, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 .
Wilhelm Neu, Volker Liedke: Upper Bavaria . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52392-9 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Brannenburg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the Brannenburg Castle Institute

Individual evidence

^ Sebastian Dachauer: Chronicle of Brannenburg and the nearest places in the area . In: Upper Bavarian Archive for Fatherland History , Volume 4, Munich 1843, Issue 1, pp. 92–135 ( online, without pp. 94–95 ) and Issue 2, pp. 219–270 ( online )
↑ List of monuments for Brannenburg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

47.74104 12.08922Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 27.7 " N , 12 ° 5 ′ 21.2" E

[1] Sebastian Dachauer: Chronicle of Brannenburg and the nearest places in the area . In: Upper Bavarian Archive for Fatherland History , Volume 4, Munich 1843, Issue 1, pp. 92–135 ( online, without pp. 94–95 ) and Issue 2, pp. 219–270 ( online )

[2] List of monuments for Brannenburg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation