Schwaneck Castle

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Schwaneck Castle
Schwaneck Castle seen from the eastern bank of the Isar

Schwaneck Castle seen from the eastern bank of the Isar

Creation time : 1843
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Place: Pullach in the Isar Valley
Geographical location 48 ° 3 '33.2 "  N , 11 ° 31' 48"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '33.2 "  N , 11 ° 31' 48"  E
Schwaneck Castle (Bavaria)
Schwaneck Castle

The Schwaneck is a building on Burgweg in Pullach in the district of Munich in Bavaria . It is a DJH youth hostel and youth education center. Together with the nature experience center, it forms the Burg Schwaneck education center. The castle was only built in the 19th century and is called the castle as a house name (in contrast to "real" medieval castles ).

Geographical location

The building is located on the southern city limits of Munich in the municipality of Pullach. The location on the high bank of the Isar offers a view over the Isar valley to the Alps.

history

The sculptor Ludwig von Schwanthaler fulfilled a childhood dream with the building of Schwaneck Castle. After the inauguration in 1843, he used the keep mainly to celebrate lavish parties.

Schwanthaler had recently been ennobled by the Bavarian king ; the construction of a "castle" not only corresponded to the title of nobility , but also to a general (uncritical) enthusiasm for the Middle Ages that Schwanthaler shared with several contemporaries. In keeping with the more middle-class financial situation of Schwanthaler, the building was originally much more modest than it is today.

After Schwanthaler's death in 1848, the house first came to the family of a cousin. In 1863 it was bought by Karl Mayer Ritter und Edler von Mayerfels , who was also enthusiastic about the Middle Ages and had it expanded and rebuilt. His passion for collecting meant that, when he moved out of the castle, allegedly 30 freight wagons full of furniture and medieval props had to be removed.

Through the interim resident, the British artist Edith Wentworth Dunbar , it came into the possession of the Munich construction and real estate entrepreneur Jakob Heilmann around 1900 , who expanded and changed the building again. Heilmann bequeathed the house to his son Otto, and in 1955 it was finally acquired by the Munich district.

The Kreisjugendring München-Land uses the building as a youth education center and youth hostel . After an extension in the seventies and a thorough renovation from 2003 to 2006, the house now offers space for around 130 guests for seminars, conferences or school and holiday trips.

From October 2015 to March 2017, the Burg Schwaneck Youth Hostel was used by the Munich district as an emergency shelter to accommodate unaccompanied refugee youth . After a renovation phase, the youth hostel resumed operations on July 1, 2017.

literature

  • Georg Paula , Timm Weski: District of Munich (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.17 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-87490-576-4 , p. 232-236 .
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bruckbräu: Schwaneck Castle and Master Schwanthaler . Augsburg 1853.

Web links

Commons : Burg Schwaneck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.burgschwaneck.de/jugendherberge/
  2. ↑ born Wentworth , her husband, Sir Charles Gordon-Cumming-Dunbar, 9th Baronet on Wikipedia
  3. ↑ Lea Frehse Pullach: Back to the youth hostel . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 1, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed April 19, 2017]).