Bishop's Palace (Markdorf)

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Episcopal Castle

The Bischofschloss is a historic building in the old town of Markdorf in the Lake Constance district in the south of Baden-Württemberg .

history

The bishop's castle was first mentioned by Markdorfer or Homburg knights around 1300. In 1414 rule over Markdorf passed to the Prince-Bishop of Constance. From 1510, Hugo von Landenberg had the castle on the city wall expanded into an impressive residential tower and is said to have used it as a residence between 1529 and 1531. The so-called knight's hall on the top floor (today used as a conference room and ballroom) probably dates from this time. His successor was Vice Chancellor Balthasar Merklin . As a result, the castle repeatedly served the Bishops of Constance as a summer residence. In 1536, Cardinal Prince- Bishop Markus Sittich had the garden at the palace laid out. Under Prince-Bishop Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg , the three middle floors of the tower were redesigned in Baroque style around 1730 . At around the same time he had the so-called nave extension, the New Castle, built along the western city wall between the residential tower and the lower city gate. In 1737 the castle barn was rebuilt on the southern city wall. After secularization in the ownership of the Grand Duchy of Baden, the palace buildings were transferred to private owners in the middle of the 19th century. The ensemble of bishop's castle, new castle and former castle barn (rebuilt in 1984 with preservation of the medieval city wall) has been used as a hotel since 1985.

In October 2015, a feasibility study on the use of the ensemble as a town hall was presented to the public on behalf of the town of Markdorf. The building decision of the municipal council to relocate the town hall to the bishop's palace was overturned by a referendum in December 2018.

literature

  • Martina Goerlich, New use in the Bishop's Palace. In the team on the concept , in: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg - News sheet of the state preservation of monuments, Vol. 48 No. 1 (2019) , pp. 28–34
  • Michael Losse (Ed.): Castles, palaces, aristocratic residences and fortifications on Lake Constance and the Upper Rhine, Volume 1.2: Eastern part around Meersburg, Immenstaad, Friedrichshafen, Bermatingen, Markdorf and Deggenhausertal . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-812-5 , pp. 78-80.
  • Alois Schneider: Castles and fortifications in the Lake Constance district . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Find reports from Baden-Württemberg . Volume 14. 1st edition. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3 510 49114 9 , ISSN  0071-9897 , pp. 580-581.
  • Jürgen Michler: Urban renovation and preservation of monuments, pictures of the Markdorf bishop's castle before - during - and after the renovation, in: Stadt Markdorf (ed.), The renewal of the historic city center, Markdorf 1986, pp. 20–39
  • City of Markdorf (Ed.): 700 years of the city of Markdorf on Lake Constance . 1950.

Web links

Commons : Bishop's Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmar Grupp, The Bishop's Palace as the New Town Hall? , in: Südkurier , October 27, 2015
  2. ↑ Barbara Baur, Citizens' Decision: Markdorfer Stop City Hall Movement to the Bishop's Palace , in: Schwäbische Zeitung , December 16, 2018

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 14 "  N , 9 ° 23 ′ 23"  E