Maxhofen Castle

Maxhofen Castle: garden facade

The Maxhofen Castle (also lock Ainhofen ) is Bruckmühler district Maxhofen in Rosenheim located (Bayern) and now serves as a school hostel of the city of Munich . The plant has an area of ​​about 2 hectares.

history

Engraving by Michael Wening , 1701

The current main building was built in 1513. Originally the castle was called Einhofen and was the ancestral home of the Ainhover family . The dilapidated castle came to Wolfgang Scherr around 1650, who renovated it until 1661. In 1683 it came to Count Maximilian von Preising , Chamberlain of Bavaria. He called it Maxhofen , got the lower jurisdiction and the recognition of a Hofmark . He built the outbuildings and the castle chapel and separated an associated courtyard, which is still called Einhofen today.

In 1771, Minister Josef Ferdinand acquired the Hofmark Maxhofen. Then the property came to Count Tattenbach and later to Count Arco , who saved it from deterioration. In 1903, the Upper Bavarian State Insurance Company was able to acquire Maxhofen Castle, which converted it into a home for the disabled. In 1960 it was sold to the city of Munich, which set up a country school home in the buildings.

description

Court of honor with garden

The building is constructed as a three-wing complex. The main building is a two-storey hipped roof building. On the garden side it has a central portico with a triangular gable. The north and south side wings are single-storey mansard hipped roof buildings, which are connected to the main building by arches.

Bach in the castle park

The main building and side wing delimit a courtyard with a symmetrical garden that was laid out in the second half of the 18th century and which merges into a green area with a cascade. The castle is surrounded by a park with an ornamental fountain, pond and stream.

The main building, the two wings and the courtyard are under monument protection.

The complex includes two farm buildings as well as a tent, football and volleyball field.

Web links

• School camp Maxhofen

Commons : Maxhofen Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

• Chronicle of Maxhofen Castle ( Memento from November 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Footnotes

1. ^ State capital Munich: School camp Maxhofen. Retrieved March 15, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 47 ° 53 ′ 51 ″  N , 11 ° 54 ′ 41 ″  E