New Kißlegg Castle

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New Kißlegg Castle, north view

The New Kißlegg Castle is a castle built at the beginning of the 18th century in Kißlegg in the Ravensburg district . Until the 1940s the castle was owned by the counts, and later by the princes of Waldburg-Zeil . Today the building is owned by the municipality.

history

Already in the 16th century there was a building built in 1523 on the site of today's New Palace, which was replaced by a three-story half-timbered building from 1687 to 1691. This served, among other things, as the widow's seat of Countess Maria Monika von Waldburg-Trauchburg, née. Countess of Königsegg. In 1721 Johann Georg Fischer from Füssen started a new building on behalf of Johann Ernst II von Waldburg Trauchburg after the old castle burned down in 1704. During the construction of the plastered building with two side elevations , remnants of Alt-Trauchburg Castle were used in part. In 1727 the castle was completed.

Until 1941 the castle was the seat of the Waldburg-Zeil-Trauchburg family. In the years 1943 to 1945 the castle housed the “Auslandsdeutsche Studentenheim” evacuated from Stuttgart, a boarding school for sons of German families living abroad, affiliated to the Hitler Youth. The air force hospital set up in the castle at the end of the war was rededicated as a district hospital in mid-1945. After its closure in 1957, the municipality of Kißlegg was able to purchase the castle cheaply in 1960. It was renovated and restored and initially set up as a school building. From 1960 to 1978 there was a secondary school in the castle, from 1980 onwards a school for people with learning disabilities moved there for five years. After the secondary school moved out, the palace was mainly rented from 1979 to 1992 by the Baden-Württemberg brass band as a training facility and instrument museum. The second floor of the castle has been used as a museum since 1993. Initially the “Museum of Expressive Realism ” was located there until 2004 , then in 2005 the “Museum Rudolf Wachter ” opened its doors to visitors. The rooms on the 1st floor are set up for private and public celebrations, conferences and meetings, especially for the meetings of the municipal council. Finally, on the ground floor are the club rooms of the “Kißlegger Hudelmale” fools' guild, the guest and citizen office of the Kißlegg community and the local history museum.

description

The castle is a three-story building with two side projections facing north. The main building has a gable roof, the two risalits each with a hipped roof . In addition, there is a dwarf house with a tail gable on each of the risalits to the north . The corners of the castle and the separation of the floors are structured by plastered blocks . There are two figures in a wall niche above the pilaster-structured portal of the main building. The stairwell inside the building is equipped with a tripartite staircase and eight sibyl figures by Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer . There are also some well-preserved rooms from the construction period inside, most of which contain stucco by Johannes Schütz and Francesco Solari and some frescoes by Johann Gabriel Roth.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X , p. 408.
  2. ^ Württembergisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (ed.): The art monuments of the former district of Wangen. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1954, p. 221.
  3. ↑ Dagmar Zimdars (arrangement): Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Baden-Württemberg II. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich, 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , p. 351.
  4. ^ Description of the Oberamt Wangen. Published by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau, Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1841, p. 260.
  5. ↑ The information for the period after 1941 can be found in the exhibition catalog "50 Years of the Kißlegg Citizens' Castle", ed. taken from the municipality of Kißlegg 2012.
  6. ^ Württembergisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (ed.): The art monuments of the former district of Wangen. P. 222.

Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 19 "  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 55.2"  E