Mildenberg residence
The Mildenberg residence is a residential building in Bregenz . The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
In the 15th century the estate of the Counts of Montfort was called "Count Baumgarten" because of the many fruit trees. In 1523, Count Haug von Montfort-Pfannenberg sold the rulership of Bregenz-Hofrieden, the last estate of Montfort in Vorarlberg, to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. After that, from 1523, this residence served as the Austrian official building for the Hofrieden court . From 1530 to the 19th century there was a frequent change of aristocratic, civil and monastic owners. Around 1546 the nobles von Villenbach sat here. Wilhelm von Villenbach was Vogt of Neuburg in 1555. The Bregenz chronicler and town clerk Christoph Schalk lived in Mildenberg between 1608 and 1612. From 1612 to the middle of the 17th century the residence belonged to the Weißenau monastery near Ravensburg. The most prominent owners in the 18th century were the Deuring family.
In 1898 the building was extensively renovated. In 1955 it was lengthened on the mountain side by a window axis and restored again in 1979. Today the residence is used for residential purposes.
architecture
The former residence is a two-story building with a half-hip roof that has been changed several times over the years. At its core, however, it is a half-timbered building from the 16th century with a decorative leaf connection of posts and struts. The western gable wall is the front side of the building. It protrudes twice and is structured by the grooved adhesive roof and the rusticated pilaster strips in the lower area. The lion's head and festoon applications on the pilaster strips date from the end of the 19th century.
The north-facing rectangular portal with its rusticated pilaster frame and the Doric attic comes from this time. The cornice is decorated with tendril paintings. The Gothic room from the beginning of the 16th century on the upper floor, which was partially destroyed in a fire in 1975, was originally completely paneled and covered with a wooden barrel. The destroyed parts were replaced by copies. The ceiling truss and the window frames are richly carved or profiled. The keel arched door in a framework is remarkable. Tendril carvings are made in the filling gussets.
The large window niche on the first floor probably served the Bregenz Crossbow-Rifle Brotherhood in 1494 as an arbor, from which its members carried out their target practice.
Web links
- Entry via Bregenz - Mildenberg to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′ 58 ″ N , 9 ° 45 ′ 6.2 ″ E