Gut Schwaighof
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Gut Schwaighof
Community Allmannshofen
Coordinates: 48 ° 36 ′ 39 " N , 10 ° 49 ′ 43" E
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| Residents : | 27 (1987) |
| Postal code : | 86695 |
| Area code : | 08273 |
The Good Schwaighof in Allmannshofen (Augsburg in Bavaria, between the road from north northern village about Druisheim to Donauwörth and the river Schmutter ) is a Bavarian Trakehner - Stud . Gut Schwaighof's park is one of the few gardens (at least in its basic structures) designed by the garden architect Harry Maasz in southern Germany and one of the largest private gardens he designed. There is also a dairy , a grassland and field cultivation company and a gardening company on the estate settled. The manor complex is a listed building as a whole .
history
The estate was originally a Schwaighof of the nearby Holzen Monastery . With the secularization at the beginning of the 19th century, the estate came to the Counts of Fischler-Treuberg .
After they got into financial difficulties, the property was sold to the " Guss- und Armaturenwerk Kaiserslautern AG" in 1918 . This company (made famous in West Germany after the Second World War for its widespread street drainage products, now part of the ACO Group ) was also an armaments company during the First World War and wanted to secure a possible alternative location here, as it was not foreseeable at the time whether after the lost war that Kaiserslautern on the left bank of the Rhine would have come to France.
The then director of the armatures, Kommerzienrat Carl Billand , bought a part of the property as a private residence. The estate is still owned by Billand's descendants, the Zeising family.
park
Initially, Billand commissioned the Augsburg architect Hans Schnell to remodel the estate and park (mansion 1918–24, first plans for the park in 1922), but these were not implemented with regard to the park. However, he quickly redesigned the manor buildings in the neo-baroque style. Instead, from 1925 onwards, Billand had the park designed by the renowned garden architect Harry Maasz from Lübeck over the course of several years; the local construction management for the seldom-present Maasz was entrusted to the Holzen-based garden architect Hans Ferner , who presumably designed parts of the park himself (e.g. his plan of a rhododendrontal valley has been demonstrably implemented; however, the rhododendrons have not been preserved).
Many plants (roses and others) and sculptural sculptures for the park were apparently bought from the anniversary horticultural exhibition that took place in Dresden in 1926 . Several sandstone figures and architectural ornaments were made by the stonemason company August Stößlein (Dresden and Grünsfeld). A central bronze figure in the park ("flute blower") comes from the much discussed and published exhibition garden of the important Berlin garden architect Gustav Allinger , who designed and directed the Dresden exhibition. Another bronze sculpture ("Tired Wanderer") was made by the important Dresden sculptor Selmar Werner . Double copies or second casts of some figures in the park can be found or, interestingly enough, were also found in Dresden (including the putti by Max Hermann Fritz in the Rosengarten and formerly also in a pavilion on Bautzner Strasse near the Brauhaus am Waldschlösschen , later moved to a children's playground in the Great Garden ) , as well as in Liegnitz ("Hirsch" by Arno Zauche on the Stadtparkwiese, former GUGALI site ), Aachen (" Flute Player " by Matthias Corr in the Elisengarten ), and other places. Other sculptures and smaller decorative reliefs on manor buildings were made by Burkhart Ebe . A wooden tea pavilion on the east wall and another wooden pavilion on the west wall of the park were designed by architect Philipp Spelger from Kaiserslautern.
Particularly typical for the design of Maasz are z. For example, the parabolic-shaped sunken garden behind the manor house with a framing pergola and arbor, the axis between the two pavilions, which was formerly accompanied by climbing walls and shrubs on both sides, with a circular water basin in the middle, a large rose garden (planting not preserved), a path only with white-flowered or white-barked plants, another oval sunken garden for summer flowers at the nursery (plants not preserved), the integration of sports, bathing and play facilities in the park, the integration of the surroundings through visual relationships and avenues, as well as the expansion of the design concept to the functional elements of the entire estate area. Harry Maasz has highlighted this design concept for Gutspark Schwaighof several times in his publications. The form of the so-called “Hirschwiese” and the “Rhododendrontal”, which is more like a landscape park, is probably due to the specifications of the client.
The former greenhouses of the then Bavaria-wide renowned estate nursery of the 1920s are still there , with the exception of a demolished palm house .
In recent years, with the support of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, various garden monument preservation measures have been carried out on the substance, which has been impaired by neglected maintenance since the late 1930s. The facility is only accessible as part of guided tours (regularly on the Open Monument Day ).
A curiosity to be mentioned is that one of the property's buildings (directly to the right of the entrance) was built around an existing tree in such a way that it is now rooted inside the building and only the crown of the tree is outside.
stud
With decades of breeding history, Gut Schwaighof (registration number of the insemination station: D-KBP 022-EWG) is one of the most traditional Trakehner studs in Bavaria. Since the early 1960s, the Zeising family built up a Trakehner breed on Gut Schwaighof, which is now mainly represented by the breeders Ulrich and Johanna Zeising. Breeding horses from the Schwaighof stud and their descendants have won numerous prizes at shows, licensing , performance tests and tournaments.
In 2018, the stud was one of the main locations for the youth film Immenhof - The Adventure of a Summer, which was released in German cinemas in January 2019 .
Others
The Via Claudia route runs not far to the east of Gut Schwaighof .
literature
- Sandra Reisser: The Schwaighof manor park near Nordendorf (Augsburg district): history, inventory, garden history classification . In: Historischer Verein für Schwaben: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Schwaben, Vol. 97, Augsburg 2004, pp. 253–288
- Sandra Menschen: The Schwaighof estate park: history, inventory, conservation concept for monument preservation , Bamberg, Univ., 1998
- Gerhard Richter: Harry Maasz's gardens at Gut Schwaighof in Allmannshofen . In: Erika Schmidt u. a. (Ed.): Garden, Art, History [Festschrift for Dieter Hennebo on his 70th birthday] , (Green series; 16), Worms: Werner, 1994, pp. 178–179, ISBN 3-88462-107-6
Web links
Allmannshofen with Hahnenweiler | Wood | Hermitage | Schwaighof