Brunegg (Lower Girsberg)

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Brunnegg Palace (northwest view)
Brunnegg Castle or Unterer Girsberg

Brunnegg Castle is located in Emmishofen , a district of Kreuzlingen . It should not be confused with the much older Brunegg Castle in the canton of Aargau. The Emmishofer Castle was formerly called Unterer Girsberg or Alt-Gyrsberg . Its predecessor was built around 1300 and in 1363 came into the possession of the Constance patrician family Blarer, who originally came from St. Gallen .

In 1565 Thomas Blarer sold Alt-Gyrsberg to Sebastian von Herbstheim, canon and provost of St. Stephan in Konstanz , who also owned Mittel-Gyrsberg from 1567 to 1588 . In 1586 the brothers Kaspar, Hans and Rupprecht Mayer von Stein am Rhein bought it . In 1626 the property belonged to the Mayor of Meersburg Mathias Rassler, but two years later to the Lords of Reding. In 1679 the brother-in-law of Wolf Rudolf and Hans Peter von Reding sold the castle to the Obermarchtal monastery on the Danube. The broker of the trade was Abbot Augustin I of Kreuzlingen, the feudal lord of Alt-Gyrsberg.

The rich monastery soon had the dilapidated castle demolished down to the foundation walls and in the summer of 1680 a pleasing long building with two floors and a chapel was built in the western part of the house. After the secularization , the princes of Thurn and Taxis and the Anderwert family owned the Lower Girsberg. In 1874 the psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger (1820–1880) bought the castle including the farm that went with it and named the fountain Brunnegg. He commissioned the architect Emil Otto Tafel from Stuttgart , who had redesigned the neighboring Castell Castle in Tägerwilen and the Inselhotel in Konstanz , to convert the castle. At the end of the 20th century the house stood empty for almost thirty years until it was renovated again and now houses a restaurant.

literature

  • Hermann Strauss: Brunnegg Palace. In: Contributions to the local history of Kreuzlingen, Issue IX, pp. 7–25. Kreuzlingen 1955.

Coordinates: 47 ° 38 ′ 52 "  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 5"  E ; CH1903:  728684  /  278863