Fugger-Schlösschen Göggingen

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Baroque garden grill and courtyard side of the castle
Front of the castle
Courtyard side with baroque garden grille, which today marks the boundary to the city park, and a view of the Protestant church

The Fugger-Schlösschen Göggingen is named after the princes of the Fugger family . It is in the center of Göggingen , a district of Augsburg .

history

In 1495 the Fuggers bought Göggingen Castle (including the pond, barn and garden) from Andreas Frickinger . The rich, ennobled merchant family had the castle rebuilt by the Augsburg master craftsman Bernhard Zwitzel :

“According to a description from 1639, the castle was three gades (floors) high, with a chapel on the middle floor. The masonry nursing home stood in the outer courtyard. After the Thirty Years War, the Fugger-Schlösschen ... only had material value. Leopold Graf Fugger zu Wellenburg sold his Gögginger goods in 1656 to the Dominican monastery, which one year later passed them on to the brewer Michael Mayer. "

Many other castle owners followed Michael Mayer. In 1866 the former Fugger-Schlösschen came into the hands of the von Stetten :

"In 1887 Berta von Stetten gave her niece Eugenie von Stetten and her husband, the banker and entrepreneur Ernst Schmid, the little castle, which was also known as the 'Schmidsches Gartengut' at the turn of the century."

Schmid, a partner in the Friedrich Schmid & Co. banking house , died in 1939. That year the Göggingen community took over the castle and had it completely renovated, unfortunately very insensitively. Almost nothing is left of the former baroque splendor:

“Today, the Fugger-Schlösschen presents itself as a simple, two-storey building set at right angles; a round arched gate leads into the small courtyard, which is locked to the west with a classicist gate to the park ... The current Gögginger Schlösschen has little more than retained its name from its founders, the Fuggers ”.

The district library has been located in the former Fugger-Schlösschen since 1972. It is a listed building.

literature

  • Christof Metzger, Ulrich Heiss, Annette Kranz: Country estates of Augsburg patricians. German Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-06574-1 , pp. 110–111.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Metzger, hot, Kranz: mansions Augsburger Private. 2005, p. 110.
  2. ↑ Metzger, Heiß, Kranz: Landsitze Augsburg patricians. 2005, p. 111.

Web links

Commons : Former Castle, so-called Fuggerschlösschen (Augsburg)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 32.1 ″  N , 10 ° 52 ′ 6.6 ″  E