Glarisegg

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Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 18 "  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 24"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and fourteen thousand and forty  /  two hundred seventy-nine thousand three hundred and fifty

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Glarisegg Castle

The Glarisegg is a castle between Steckborn and Mammern in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. It is listed in the inventory of places worth protecting in Switzerland .

history

At the end of the 16th century, Heinrich von Gündelhart built a first representative building. In 1774/1775, the banker Daniel Labhart, who had become wealthy in Paris, had today's palace building built according to plans by Franz Anton Bagnato . Labhart died soon after the building was completed. In 1779 it was bought by Christoph Kaufmann from Winterthur. In 1779, Goethe called in Glarisegg. The lord of the castle was not at home at the moment, and Goethe wrote the verses on the main portal:

As God's sniffer dog, I have
always pursued my rogue life;
God's trail is over now,
and only the dog is left.

In 1783 it was made a patio (until 1798). 1806–1843 the castle was inhabited by Count Hermann von Elking from Rudolstadt; From 1843–1891 it was the property of the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe .

Country Education Home

Aerial photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1924)

In 1901 the reform pedagogues Werner Zuberbühler and Wilhelm Frei acquired Glarisegg Castle. In the spring of 1902, they opened the first rural education home in Switzerland.

The teachers included Max Oettli (1902–1921), Hermann Gschwind (1904–1906), Charly Clerc (1908–1914), Otto Greyerz (1907–1915, professor at the University of Bern from 1916) and Albert Banderet, and Natalie, who was a school doctor Kirpichnikova, Oettli's first wife.

The writer Friedrich Glauser (1910 to 1913) was one of the students at the Landerziehungsheim .

In 1980 the school was closed. From 1987 to 2001 a Waldorf school was housed in the castle .

Community

In 2003, the Glarisegg Castle project acquired the property in order to build a meeting place that combines artistic, therapeutic and manual work and is supported by a collective .

The Glarisegg Castle Community sees itself as an initiative to develop a new culture and bring it into the world. Its members share an interest in creating an environment that enables the personal development of each individual in order to jointly take responsibility for the world.

Community life is shaped by common everyday life, artistic work and the exchange in various forms of communication in which conflicts can be dealt with and personal experiences shared and placed in a larger context.

The community has been growing again since 2010 and families in particular have moved here. A permaculture project has been underway since 2012 with a vegetable garden as the first implementation step. There is a forest group for younger children. The joint project includes a seminar hotel, a small book and handicraft shop, the creative workshop and a sound sculpture workshop.

The community is a member of the Global Ecovillage Network Europe .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Grunder: Landherziehungsheime. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ There is a story about this from him, Im Landerziehungsheim . Jürgen Oelkers made this the starting point of his lecture Quo vadis Reformedagogik?
  3. ^ R. Labhart: Old Views of Steckborn
  4. ^ Würfel-Verlag: eurotopia directory: Communities and eco-villages in Europe. 2014, ISBN 978-3-9812968-1-5 .