Alteglofsheim Castle

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Exterior view of Alteglofsheim Castle
Castle courtyard
Alteglofsheim Castle after a copper engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

The Alteglofsheim Castle is located in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Alteglofsheim in the Regensburg district in Bavaria .

The imposing former manor house , which to a high medieval castle , the Castrum Egelofsheim from 1240, goes back, is within the village some of the main road.

history

The name comes from the Eglofsheimer family. Since the 10th century there has been a moated castle with an associated Hofmark . The castle has been rebuilt and expanded several times over the centuries. After frequent changes of ownership, Johann Georg Freiherr von Königsfeld bought Gut Alteglofsheim in 1659. In 1685 he became an imperial count . Michael Wening reports about him that he "added a new wing to the castle and furnished it with decorative elements, pleasant paintings and other delicious rarities".

In 1694 he left the estate to his grandson Hans Georg Joseph Anton Maria Graf von Königsfeld . He was State and Conference Minister of Elector Karl Albrecht and First Minister during his time as Emperor. From 1728 to 1734 he had the castle expanded and refurbished again considerably. His successor, Count Christian Johann August von Königsfeld, electoral ambassador in Vienna, built the north wing of the palace with the magnificent dining room (oval hall) in 1780. In 1810 the Königsfelder family died out. The Barons von Cetto followed as owners, and Prince Maximilian Karl von Thurn und Taxis acquired the castle in 1835 . The princes of Thurn and Taxis sold it to a pastor in 1939, and later it was passed on to his housekeeper.

The war and the post-war period led to the palace being misappropriated and deteriorating more and more. The Free State of Bavaria acquired it in 1973 and made it available to the University of Regensburg in 1980 . In 1989 the castle was set as the location for the third Bavarian music academy. Construction work began in 1992. In June 1999, the music academy started operations here. After the alterations and renovations totaling 55 million marks in September 2000 by the Minister of Culture, Hans Zehetmair, the castle was given its new purpose. The renovation of the palace park, which was completed in spring 2002, cost a further 1.3 million marks. A tour of the castle is only possible for groups by appointment.

Building description

The late Gothic core with the 35 meter high keep in the west dates from the beginning of the 14th century. It towers above the high gable of a building with two round flanked turrets from the early 17th century. Around 1680, a wing with the two-nave chapel in the basement was leaned against it in the south . Around 1730 it was extended to the west after the wing, oriented from south to north, had started at right angles to it.

The staircase in the old wing was furnished in the Rococo style around 1730 . The ceiling fresco by Nikolaus Gottfried Stuber , which was framed by stucco and later destroyed, was located here , depicting the heaven of the gods. François de Cuvilliés the Elder was a co-designer of the main floor, one of whose two bay rooms one of the two bay windows has a painting Endymion and Diana by Cosmas Damian Asam . In the next room there are several ceiling paintings, the middle of which is about the judgment of Paris .

This is followed by the eight so-called beautiful rooms on the south side of the palace: reception hall, audience room, bedroom, cabinet, salon, library, dining room and tea room. All rooms have elegant stucco ceilings designed by Cuvilliés and designed by Johann Baptist Zimmermann .

The ceiling fresco by Cosmas Damian Asam

The ceiling painting of the Red Chamber shows Hermes , the Jupiter and Jo the head of the Argos brings the Green room goddess Venus , the Amor lulls, awakens and equips with a quiver. In the Imperial Hall , Emperor Leopold and his wife, surrounded by the other imperial princes, sit on an eagle. The birth of Venus, Venus and Mars , Boreas and Orithya, and Rinaldo and Armida can be seen on four smaller paintings .

In the other wing is the two-storey oval hall (Asam-Salettl) designed by the Asam brothers , to which a festive staircase leads. Cosmas Damian Asam's ceiling painting with Apollo on the sun chariot rises above lavish decorations and paintings with still lifes and hunting pieces . The powers of the night flee from him, Mars and Venus can be seen above him. Asam immortalized himself as a hunter with a raised glass of beer on the edge of the picture.

literature

  • Andreas Boos : Castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate - the early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area . Universitätsverlag Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-930480-03-4 , pp. 91-98.
  • Peter Morsbach: The pleasure garden of Alteglofsheim Castle. At the beginning of French garden art in Bavaria . In: Die Gartenkunst 6 (1/1994), pp. 69–88.

Web links

Commons : Alteglofsheim Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual proof

  1. ^ Herbert Schindler : Castles in the Danube Country. In: Unknown Bavaria. 1960, reprinted October 1976, p. 94

Coordinates: 48 ° 55 ′ 6 ″  N , 12 ° 12 ′ 17 ″  E