Schachenmeyersches estate

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The Schachenmeyer estate in Kempten, painted by Johann Balthasar Widemann around 1820/30
The Marienanstalt on a historical postcard

The Schachenmeyer estate was a patrician castle in Kempten (Allgäu) . It was demolished in 1972 to make way for modern housing.

history

The representative property, also known as the Upper Gut zu St. Leonhard , is shown for the first time on the oldest surviving painted cityscape from 1599. The residential building probably received the oriel towers that were still missing there in the early 17th century. In 1601 Tobias König's “Castle and Gueth to St. Lenhardt” is mentioned in a list of imperial city goods. In the 18th century, the estate was owned by the Praun family of lawyers and doctors . After the city physicist Otto Phillip Praun had sold the property with land for 4450 guilders to his son Jacob and the latter died, the mayor and long-distance trader Johann Christoph Bogner acquired it from Jacob Praun's heirs in 1795. Bogner already owned the Lower Gut at St. Leonhard . From the estate of his widow, the estate came into the hands of the wholesaler Leonhard Ferdinand Schachenmeyer. The Schachenmayer family who owned the paper mill remained the owners of the estate until 1863.

In 1879 the city chaplain Josef Landes initiated the establishment of the Marienanstalt for single, temporarily unemployed maids and factory workers of the nearby mechanical cotton spinning and weaving mill in Kempten and acquired the estate. The foundation established for this purpose acquired the building in 1879, expanded and converted it. The structural core, however, remained untouched. The institution was run by women from the Franciscan monastery in Kaufbeuren .

In 1972 the Marienanstalt was demolished to provide space for modern residential buildings. In the same year, the Marienheim senior citizens' center (Josef-Landes-Haus) of the non-profit foundation AllgäuStift was built on the site , where senior citizens have been offered assisted living since then .

painting

A small-format oil painting shows the estate as a stately, castle-like property with farm buildings, ornamental gardens and orchards. It probably comes from the Kempter master bleacher Johann Balthasar Widemann (1789–1845). Widemann, of whom there are several paintings of this genre, acquired basic skills in landscape painting as an autodidact.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wolfgang Petz: The Upper Gut zu St. Leonhard (Schachenmeyersches Landgut). In: Wolfgang Petz, Josef Kirmeier, Wolfgang Jahn and Evamaria Brockhoff (eds.): "Citizen diligence and prince-luster." Imperial city and prince abbey of Kempten. House of Bavarian History , Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-927233-60-9 , pp. 118ff.
  2. ^ Martin Kellenberger: City of Kempten. Book of memory. Dannheimer, Kempten 1937, p. 90.
  3. ^ Bernard Kühling: Allgäuer Künstlerlexikon . 1st edition. Kempten 2012, p. 392.

literature

Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 59.9 "  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 36.8"  E