Liebenfels Castle (Thurgau)

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Liebenfels Castle
Liebenfels Castle

Liebenfels Castle

Creation time : First mentioned in 1254
Conservation status: Receive
Construction: Keep
Place: Mammers
Geographical location 47 ° 37 '55 "  N , 8 ° 55' 35"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '55 "  N , 8 ° 55' 35"  E ; CH1903:  711815  /  two hundred seventy-six thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight
Height: 569  m above sea level M.
Liebenfels Castle (Canton Thurgau)
Liebenfels Castle

The castle Liebenfels in the Swiss canton of Thurgau , southeast of Mammern on the road to Lanzenneunforn , a district of Herdern , stands on a 230'350 sqm plot. The most striking structure of the complex is the keep. To the north of it there is a courtyard and residential buildings, to the south there are extensions with stepped gables from the 16th century.

history

The castle and its builder Hermann I von Liebenfels were first mentioned in a document in 1254. The lords of Liebenfels were ministerials to the bishops of Constance and held secular and spiritual offices. At this time there are canons of the von Liebenfels in Zurzach and Embrach. For their loyal service, they were given a house and yard in Konstanz, which later became the "Lanzenhof". A descendant of the Knights of Liebenfels, Konrad von Liebenfels, was abbot of All Saints, the monastery of Schaffhausen, from 1296 to 1313. The Liebenfels dominion, together with Lanzenneunforn , Ammenhausen , Wilen and other estates, remained in the hands of the Liebenfels dynasty until 1390.

At this time Rudolf von Liebenfels sold the castle and the manor to Hermann Grämlich from Constance. In 1395 they passed to Heinrich von Tettikofen. During the Council of Constance (1414-1418) Barbara von Cilli , the second wife of Emperor Sigismund , resided in the Constance residence of the nobles von Lanz-Liebenfels. Around 1460, a wealthy merchant, Hans Lanz, brought Liebenfels Castle into his possession through his marriage to Anna von Tettikofen. Hans Lanz of love rock was Hofmeister, Episcopal Council and Stadtammann of Konstanz and worked as a diplomat of Duke Sigismund of Austria-Tyrol and later by King Maximilian I Emperor Frederick III. knighted him and gave him and his descendants coats of arms and the names of those of Liebenfels. This coat of arms can still be seen today in the cathedral of Konstanz. After the capture by federal freelance troops in 1475, the tower had to be renovated. In 1476 Hans von Toggenburg acquired the castle from the ten (federal) old places. From 1488 further buildings were erected.

Since 1510 Gündelhart belonged to Liebenfels. In 1572 the brothers Heinrich and Jakob Lanz sold Burg and Herrschaft (excluding Gündelhart) to Hans Christoph von Gemmingen , whose family resided here until 1654. His son Johann von Gemmingen zu Liebenfels died childless. Subsequently, the rule came to the Cistercian monastery of St. Urban in the canton of Lucerne, which was the owner of the castle until the monastery was dissolved.

After the secularization of 1848, the writer, publisher and literature professor Adolf Ludwig Follen , who had emigrated from Germany, bought Liebenfels Castle, which offered refugees asylum after the defeat of the March Revolution. Follen gathered poets of his time such as Hoffmann von Fallersleben and Gottfried Keller around him. He became the mentor of young Keller. The silk farm that Follen set up on the property was unsuccessful. In 1855 he had to give up the castle impoverished. In 1858 the plant received a new owner with the manufacturer Caspar Bebié. Other bourgeois owners followed.

The palace was uninhabited and orphaned from 1948 to 1992, until it was purchased by Klaus W. Ebert and Christiane Ebert-Schnaufer in 1992 and extensively renovated. The three children Klaus, Christina and Angela were baptized in the castle chapel. In 2009 Klaus Ebert senior was killed in a traffic accident. The community of heirs and the new life partner Dr. Karl-Heinz Nusser carry on the hospitable tradition of Liebenfels Castle to this day.

literature

  • Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and adjacent areas, Volume 1 . Verlag Südkurier, 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 310-313.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Liebenfels  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now. Castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and adjacent areas. Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , p. 310-313 .
  2. ↑ Alt-Steckborn. In: alt-steckborn.ch. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Erich Trösch: Liebenfels. In: hls-dhs-dss.ch. November 27, 2008, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  4. ^ Verena Rothenbühler: Lanz von Liebenfels, Hans. In: hls-dhs-dss.ch. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .