Jagdschlösschen (Polling Monastery)

Former servants' house of the Polling monastery near Weilheim, also known as the Jagdschlösschen, in 2009

The hunting lodge of the Polling monastery is a hunting pavilion next to the Polling monastery near Weilheim .

history

It was built in 1746 according to plans by the Munich architect Johann Michael Fischer during the transition from late baroque to rococo. The builder was the abbot of Polling Monastery, Franz Töpsl , who significantly enriched the existing monastery complex with both sacred and profane buildings. The construction costs for the building amounted to 2,170  fl.

The "Jagdschlösschen" served as a hunting lodge for the large hunting parties, in which almost the entire aristocracy of old Bavaria took part in the heyday of the monastery. The kitchen and dining rooms were on the ground floor, including a smaller round room with a flat domed ceiling, which was reserved for the abbot and special hunting guests. There were several guest rooms on the upper floor.

In 1800 the first elementary school in Polling found its place in the "Jagdschlösschen". In 1952, after considerable devastation in the post-war period, the building was expanded by one storey and the roof. Since 1976 the house has been used as an integrative kindergarten by Kinderhilfe Oberland eV for around 80 children from Polling and the surrounding area.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz: Fischer, Johann Michael. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990
2. ^ A monastery village full of art, Kulturstiftung der Länder, Vol. 14, 201
3. ↑ Töpsl diary, BSB, clm 26461.
4. ↑ Brigitte Angelosanti: Pollinger Pröpste as builders, Polling 2004

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 45.3 "  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 53.3"  E