Gut Eggelhof

Manor house with curved late baroque gable

Gut Eggelhof is a district of Langweid am Lech in the Swabian district of Augsburg . The property belonging to the Achsheim district is elevated in an impressive location on the edge of the Schmuttertal . The ensemble, consisting of a manor house, church and other farm buildings, was owned by the Augsburg cathedral chapter until secularization (1803).

history

Presumably there was a Roman country house on the site 2000 years ago. In 1100 the high nobility built the Eggelhof, which Conrad the German chose as its seat in 1285. The first description of the Eggelhof comes from 1622. Canon Zacharias Furttenbach noted:

Next to the chapel there are two brick houses: a house, covered with bricks, with an oven and bakery, where all the servants live, an adjoining house, covered with bricks, and a double horse stable, on which there are rooms and chambers, and a floor for grain. There is a well and a carriage hut that is also covered with bricks. Now follows the immediate surroundings of the above buildings: Towards the decline: a little house, covered with bricks, for pigs and sheep. Around noon: a barn, in front of the barn a cattle shed, behind it a tree garden, two days in size, a spice garden and a kitchen garden, around midnight: next to the chapel a tree garden and a field .

In 1632 the Eggelhof was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and rebuilt in 1730. In the course of secularization, the Eggelhof came into secular hands. Several owners followed, until finally in 2001 Christiane Reerink and her father Peter Reerink bought the manor house with the adjoining stables from a community of nine heirs .

In front of the imposing two-storey manor house is the court chapel to the Schwerzhaft mother with a southern tower, which is provided with a tent roof. The house of worship is a hall with a retracted late Gothic choir. From 2001 to 2004 the entire ensemble was completely renovated and expanded with new buildings.

The manor and the chapel are under monument protection. In 2005 and 2006 the estate was awarded a monument prize. Today the Eggelhof is home to a German shepherd breed and a riding stables.

House description

The most striking feature is the baroque, curved east gable of the main house, which can be seen from afar. This is provided with a gable roof and three-dimensional transverse cornices. The manor house has five window axes on the gable side and is entered on the eaves side from the south through an entrance door that can be reached via steps. To the north, at the same ridge height, there is a stable extension to the residential wing. Inside, a wide house floor with stately stairs opens up the building. Belonging to the courtyard is a facility to the north with a riding hall, riding arena and outdoor seating area . The old well shaft discovered during the renovation was integrated into the kitchen on the ground floor. Many doors are original.