Waal Castle
Schloss Waal is under monument protection standing castle in Waal in the Swabian Ostallgäu . It is the residence of the Princely House of von der Leyen .
history
Waal was the seat of a lordship that belonged to Franz Ludwig Reichsgraf Schenk von Castell , the so-called Malefizschenk , around 1800 . With the Rheinbund act 1806 the place came to Bavaria . The stately castle dates from the middle of the 16th century. In its western part you can still find the remains of a medieval castle destroyed by the Augsburgers during the city war in 1397 . On the night of November 23, 2017, the western courtyard building and the brewery as well as parts of the gate building were seriously damaged in a fire.
Building description
The castle is a stately hipped roof building with corner towers. Remodeling took place in the middle of the 19th century and in 1907.
The list of monuments also includes:
- Courtyard building: two-wing complex with hipped roof and saddle roof (north wing), gate passage, west wing beginning of the 17th century, 18th century, north wing of the 18th and 19th centuries
- Brewery: two-wing building with hip roofs, 1st half of the 19th century
- Gate construction between the west wing and the brewery, 1st half of the 19th century
- Chancellery: ground floor saddle roof building, 1st half of the 19th century
- Archive: ground floor hipped roof building, 1st half of the 19th century
- Lindenallee: approx. 300 m long, early 20th century
- South-east side of the castle park.
literature
- Bernd-Peter Schaul: Swabia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52398-8 .
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Individual evidence
Castles: Altensberg Castle (dismissed) | Bullachberg Castle | Emmenhausen Castle (exited) | Günzach Castle | Hohenschwangau Castle | High Castle | Hopferau Castle | Hörmanshofen Castle (exited) | Lamerdingen Castle | Marktoberdorf Castle | Neuschwanstein Castle | Osterzell Castle | Reinhardsried Castle (exited) | Unterthingau Castle | Waal Castle | Weizern Castle | Westerried Castle (exited)
Castles and ruins: Eggenthal Castle (dismissed) | Eichelschwang Castle (gone) | Eisenberg castle ruins | Falkensberg Castle (exited) | Falkenstein castle ruins | Frauenstein Castle (exited) | Gschrift Castle (exited) | Helmishofen castle ruins | Hinterhohenschwangau Castle (dismissed) | Hohenfreyberg castle ruins | Castle ruin Hopfen | Ursin Castle (exited) | Liebenthann Castle (departed) | Nesselburg castle ruins | Oberdeusch Castle (exited) | Obergünzburg Castle (exited) | Vorderhohenschwangau Castle (dismissed)
Tower hill castles (all gone): Burg Emmenhausen | Seeg Castle | Tower hill at Haspelweiher | Hörmanshofen tower hill
Castle stables (lost, unknown castles): Burgstall Am Felsen | Burgstall apple string | Burgstall Aufhofen I | Burgstall Aufhofen II | Burgstall Bertoldshofen | Burgstall near Burgstall | Castle stable Ebenhofen | Burgstall at Echt | Fliehburg ruins | Gabis Castle Stables | Burgstall Galgenbichel | Burgstall Günzach | Burgstall halch | Burgstall Haugen | Burgstall Helmishofen | Burgstall Hiemenhofen | Burgstall Hochegg | Section fortification Hornburg | Section fortification Hörnle | Burgstall Kipfenberg | Burgstall Lang | Burgstall Lengenfeld | Burgstall Leuterschach | Burgstall Marktoberdorf | Burgstall Hintere Märzenburg | Burgstall Obergünzburg | Burgstall Osterberg | Section fortification Osterzell | Burgstall Romatsried | Burgstall Schweinlang | Burgstall Schwenden | Burgstall Seelenberg | Burgstall Sellthüren | Burgstall Thalhofen | Burgstall Unterlöchlers | Castle stable Unterthingau | Section fortification Welberschanze
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 39.8 ″ N , 10 ° 46 ′ 38.5 ″ E