Herzogskasten (Ingolstadt)
The Duke's Box in Ingolstadt , also known as the Old Castle , is a Gothic secular building from the 13th century and today houses the city library .
history
The Duke's Box was built around 1255 by order of Ludwig the Strict as a palace in Ingolstadt, making it the oldest non-church building in the city that has been preserved. It was originally part of a more spacious complex with several outbuildings around a courtyard.
To the east there is a round city wall tower, also from the 13th century. The stepped gables with pilaster strips on the front sides were probably added in the 14th century . Broken bricks and bricks were used as building material for the building, which now has eight floors . Originally it had a different floor plan and a corresponding window distribution. The little choir on the western narrow side of the castle shows where the castle chapel was once located. When it was completed, the ducal box was an additional fortification at the southeast end of the first rectangular city wall that bordered the Schutter in the south . In contrast to the smaller buildings of the same name in Abensberg and Kelheim, the building did not initially serve as a granary, but until the completion of the New Palace in the 15th century was the palas (residential building) of the residence for the Ingolstadt dukes and their successors. The conversion to a granary probably only took place at the end of the 17th century .
Todays use
After its renovation, the old castle has been open to the public since 1974 . After the city of Ingolstadt bought the building back from the Bäko , the Ingolstadt city library has been located here since 1981 , which is named after both the building and the Ingolstadt writer Marieluise Fleißer = Marieluise Fleißer library in the Herzogskasten. The main office serves as a link between the branches of the school and district library south-west (Ochsenschlacht school center), the book bus and the school media center (SMZ) at the bridgehead. The Ingolstadt City Theater also has a studio in the Herzogskasten. From 1989 to 1998 the old castle also housed the municipal toy museum , which is now located in the city museum.
In 2006 the "Dehner House" attached directly to the Herzogskasten was demolished and replaced by a new building that is no longer attached to the old castle.
literature
- Mader, Friedrich (ed.), Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt: 1988, p. 11.
- Schnell, Hugo (ed.), Ingolstadt, Munich and Zurich: 1958, p. 5 ff.
- Hit, Gerd, Kleine Ingolstädter Stadtgeschichte, Regensburg: 2004, p. 27 f.
Web links
- City library Ingolstadt with information about the building.
- Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments via the Duke's Box
Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 49 ″ N , 11 ° 25 ′ 39 ″ E