Hohenfels Castle (Hohenfels)

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Hohenfels Castle
Hohenfels Castle seen from the south from the Mahlspürer valley

Hohenfels Castle seen from the south from the Mahlspürer valley

Alternative name (s): Hohenfels Castle, Neu-Hohenfels, Salem Castle School - Hohenfels Lower School
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Received or received substantial parts
Place: Hohenfels lime kiln
Geographical location 47 ° 51 '51 "  N , 9 ° 6' 40"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '51 "  N , 9 ° 6' 40"  E
Hohenfels Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Hohenfels Castle

The Hohenfels , including Castle Hohenfels or New Hohenfels called, is a medieval Spur castle in which to July 2017, the lower level of the boarding school Schloss Salem was housed. The castle lies within the boundaries of the village of Kalkofen , a good kilometer to the north , a district of the Hohenfels community in the Konstanz district . The castle is named after the Hohenfels community created in 1973.

location

Around eight kilometers east of Stockach and twelve kilometers north of Lake Constance , the castle is located on a south-sloping hilltop of a wooded ridge in a spur.

history

Hohenfels Castle looks back on over 700 years of history. It was originally founded by the Lords of Hohenfels and was the residence of the von Neu-Hohenfels family, a branch line from Alt-Hohenfels with its ancestral seat Burg Alt-Hohenfels near Bonndorf , (district of Konstanz), who had settled here in the 12th century, the minstrel Burkart von Hohenfels probably came from Alt-Hohenfels. Hohenfels Castle was first mentioned in 1292 as "Neuhohenfels".

The Neuhohenfels dynasty died out in 1352, and the Neuhohenfels rulership including the castle passed through marriage to the von Jungingen lords , who again succeeded in largely uniting the two Hohenfels rulers through marriage at the beginning of the 15th century. After a short period of prosperity and renewed division in 1441 into Jungingen-Althohenfels and Jungingen-Neuhohenfels, the property fell into disrepair. Well-known members of the family were Ulrich von Jungingen and Konrad von Jungingen .

After the death of the last male member of the Jungingen family, Ulrich von Jungingen, in 1501 his sister Anna sold the Neuhohenfels estate to the Teutonic Order in 1506 . Since then the lordship has belonged to the Altshausen Land Commandery of the Deutschordensballei Alsace and Burgundy. Exactly 300 years, from 1506 to 1806, the Altshausen Order of the Teutonic Order influenced Hohenfels rule. In 1553 and 1642 there were fires at the castle.

The German Order of domination Hohenfels, which was managed by a top Bailiwick Office and the Hohenfels and the localities Deutwang , lime kiln, Liggersdorf , Mindersdorf and Selgetsweiler included, came in 1806 with the German Order of domination Achberg under the sovereignty of the Principality of Hohenzollern and was there to Upper Bailiwick Office Hohenfels .

The palace complex finally went to the Salem Palace School via the Princely House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen .

Use as a school

In 1931 the "Schule Schloss Salem" acquired Hohenfels Castle in order to accommodate the lower grades 5 to 7 (with boarding school). In the years that followed, around 20 teachers and carers lived at the castle together with 80 boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 13. At the beginning of March 2016, the school management announced that it would give up the use of the castle as a junior level. School operations were closed in July 2017. In the following year, the property was sold to the non-profit organization EOS-Erlebnispädagogik, which wants to build a public, sustainable conference center there.

investment

At Hohenfels Castle, four building wings enclose an almost rectangular courtyard. The castle courtyard with buildings on the edge has round corner towers in the southwest. The former mansion faces south, the gate faces north. The south wing, in which the mansion has an irregular position, is framed by two corner towers, one of which - like the outside of the chapel - has late Gothic shapes. The scope of the castle measures around 1700 square meters.

Hohenfels Castle is a baroque castle in the castle style, the old castle was destroyed in the 17th century. The main stock and at the same time the oldest part of the castle comes from the middle, or the second half, of the 16th century. The gate is baroque and framed with bosses . In the chapel in the west wing there is a rococo decoration (1761). The mansion has a stepped gable, a spiral staircase tower, on the west gable a coat of arms of the commander (1553). On the ground floor of the east wing building there are Renaissance arcades on round pillars and cross-seam vaults. The castle was given its present-day appearance through alterations and refinements, especially under the Teutonic order builders Johann Caspar Bagnato from Altshausen in the 18th century. Evidence of this time is the coat of arms of the commander on the gable, who built the top floor around 1760. Inside there are still rich stucco ceilings and old stoves.

The tithe barn was redesigned into a cafeteria under architect Richard Scholtz.

The Hohenfels also includes a chapel, the manor house, the Josenberg house, the Zeiserhof, the oil mill, a stable and a castle garden.

For many years it was not possible to visit the facility. The "Museum Burg Hohenfels", which was housed in the old prison wing until July 2017, was closed. With the takeover by the EOS-Erlebnispädagogik association, a tour of the property is possible again. It is also planned that Hohenfels Castle can be used by the public and that overnight stays, cultural events, festivities and conferences will be made possible.

Trivia

When it was first broadcast in Germany on May 19, 2005, ZDF showed the four-part documentary “The hard school of the 50s” filmed by the production company Tresor Entertainment GmbH at Hohenfels Castle from August 10 to September 4, 2004. The ZDF sealed off 24 schoolboys aged 16 and 17 from the present and sent them on a journey through time to a boarding school in the 1950s for the reality soap. The review of the hard day-to-day boarding school life of 1954 lasted four weeks. There was discipline, order and punctuality. An entrance test and a final test should show whether the old-fashioned drill led to impressive learning success.

Furthermore, Hohenfels Castle is the subject of the 25-minute episode 66 of the children's TV series “ Willi wills Wissen ”, a production by Megaherz Film und Fernsehen on behalf of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation with the FWU Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education gGmbH. Under the title “How's the boarding school going?”, KiKA showed on August 8, 2004 in a German premiere how the presenter Willi Weitzel followed the everyday life of the boarding school students at Hohenfels Castle for a whole week.

See also

literature

  • Christian H. Freitag: Hohenfels Stories - told according to documents of the time . In: Fredy Meyer (Ed.): Römer Ritter Regenpfeifer. Forays through the cultural landscape of western Lake Constance , Konstanz 1995, pp. 83–97
  • Christian H. Freitag: From 'Hohenvels nova' to the Hohenfels Castle School . In: Hohenzollerische Heimat , 2/2000, pp. 17–20 and 3/2000, pp. 42–44
  • Christian H. Freitag: One man's sorrow, the other's joy! - The rededication of the Hohenfels Castle Prison as a Hohenfels Museum . In: Hegau magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance , 61/2004, pp. 179–184
  • Walther Genzmer (Ed.): The art monuments of Hohenzollern. Volume 2. Sigmaringen district . W. Speemann, Stuttgart 1948.
  • Otto Glaeser: Letter from Walther von Hohenfels to Konrad von Jungingen 1397 . In: Hohenzollerische Jahreshefte. Volume 5. 1938 . Pp. 360-361
  • Otto Glaeser: The people of Alt- and New-Hohenfels and their owners in the Middle Ages . In: Hohenzollerische Jahreshefte. Volume 1. 1934 . Pp. 65-112
  • Otto Glaeser: The people of Alt- and New-Hohenfels and their owners in the Middle Ages . In: Hohenzollerische Jahreshefte. Volume 2. 1935 . Pp. 67-112
  • Otto Glaeser: The people of Alt- and New-Hohenfels and their owners in the Middle Ages . In: Hohenzollerische Jahreshefte. Volume 3. 1936 . Pp. 65-119
  • Otto Glaeser: The people of Alt- and New-Hohenfels and their owners in the Middle Ages . In: Hohenzollerische Jahreshefte. Volume 4. 1937 . Pp. 1-58
  • Eugen Gradmann: Art-historical hiking guide. Württemberg and Hohenzollern . Chr. Belser AG. Stuttgart-Zurich 1970. p. 489 ISBN 3-88199-137-9
  • Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .
  • Otto Seydel: Rituals - Celebration - Inspection. The example of the Hohenfels Castle School . Pp. 140-151. In: Michael Wermke (ed.): Rituals and stagings in schools and lessons . LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 1997. ISBN 3825832791

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See cited lit. and document dated August 1, 1506 State Archives Sigmaringen Ho 160 T 2 No. 8
  2. ↑ Website conference center Schloss Hohenfels: https://schloss-hohenfels.de/
  3. ↑ Otto Seydel, born in 1945, is the former head of the lower level of the Salem Castle Schools at Hohenfels Castle (Hohenfels School, 78355 Überlingen)