Jesuit castle

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The courtyard of the Jesuit castle
View from the Jesuit Castle towards Freiburg-Haslach

The Jesuit Castle is a stately home in Merzhausen near Freiburg im Breisgau , located on the north side of the Schönberg . From there you have a wide view of Freiburg, the Kaiserstuhl and the southern Black Forest, which is located immediately to the north .

The Jesuits , who taught at the Freiburg University from 1620 , received the estate from the Schnewlin- Bernlapp von Bollschweil family as a gift on February 10, 1635 . According to the plaque from 1901 above the entrance, the mansion was built in 1666, although there are justified doubts about this date. When the order was dissolved in 1773, the Schnewlin-Bernlapp, the barons of Bollschweil, bought their original castle back for 66,000 florins . The property then went to the Kageneck family . Most of the property was used as a noble residence and underwent many structural changes. In 1898 the Heiliggeistspitalstiftung acquired the complex and leased it.

Since 1985 the winery of the Freiburg Heiliggeistspitalstiftung, the foundation winery Freiburg founded in 1298, has been established in the property. Next to the winery there is a tasting room and a large hall. There is also a restaurant on the castle grounds with a view of Freiburg.

literature

  • Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 6: Freiburg district , Jacob Christian Benjamin Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen and Leipzig 1904, p. 313.

Web links

Commons : Jesuitenschloss (Merzhausen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustration of the board above the entrance
  2. ^ Alfred Graf von Kageneck, The end of the front-Austrian rule in Breisgau, Rombach & Co. Verlag, Freiburg 1981, ISBN 3-7930-0365-5 , page 36

Coordinates: 47 ° 57 ′ 59 ″  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 4 ″  E