Amerdingen Castle

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Front of Amerdingen Castle

Amerdingen Castle is in the valley of the Kessel on the edge of the Amerdingen community in the Donau-Ries district . It is owned by the zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg family and is normally not open to the public. In June every year concerts take place in the bel étage of the castle during the Rosetti Festival in Nördlinger Ries .

history

A local nobility, the Lords of Amerdingen, has been documented in Amerdingen since the 13th century. In 1333, the noble von Scheppach family acquired the manor . After the death of Veit von Scheppach in 1566 it passed to the Hans von Stauffenberg tavern. Amerdingen and the castle belonging to it were destroyed several times in the following centuries.

Johann Franz de Paula Schenk von Stauffenberg, the only surviving son of twelve siblings, had the current building built between 1784 and 1788 according to plans by Franz Ignaz Michael Neumann , master builder of the Baroque , Rococo and Classicism periods . When Neumann died in 1785, the Bamberg master builder Lorenz Fink took over responsibility for building the palace.

Building description

The castle consists of a three-storey, hip-roofed rectangular building, to which two single-storey, hip-roofed wing structures are attached and thus encompass the almost square courtyard. The slightly protruding central projection in natural stone facing with pilaster strips , arched portal and iron balcony divides the classicist facade , in the gable triangle of which the coats of arms of the von Stauffenberg and Zobel von Giebelstadt families , a Swabian-Franconian branch of the family, are carved.

The interiors were decorated by the Würzburg plasterer Materno Bossi , the wallpapers may come from the JB Réveillon manufactory in Paris, which was founded around 1776–1765, whose wallpapers, designed by important artists of the time, soon enjoyed general popularity and were also sold in foreign countries as far as America were. The stylish furnishing is combined with the wall decoration to form a harmonious ensemble . All main rooms of the representative country palace are oriented towards the park side:

The central room on the first floor is the 'Great Hall' above the garden hall. To the south follow the music room and the Johann-Franz-Salon, to the north the writing room and the former bedroom of the castle lady. Connected by double-leaf doors, the large hall and salons form an enfilade .

The grand building is one of the English-style landscaped landscaped garden surrounded, the conclusion of a small 1795 erected pillars temple with domed roof forms.

photos

  • View of the palace and park through the pillared temple

  • Garden front of the castle

  • Pillar temple at the end of the castle park

literature

  • Barbara Würmseher: From generation to generation. The history of Amerdingen Castle is old - that of the counts is older. Today Camila zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg is the lady of the castle. In: Donauzeitung, Thursday, August 18, 2016, p. 34
  • Wilfried Sponsel: Castles, palaces and residences in Bavarian Swabia . Typesetting and graphics partner, Augsburg 2006, ISBN 3-935438-54-0 , pp. 34–35.
  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 6 - Ostalb: Hiking and discovering between Ulm, Aalen and Donauwörth . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1995, ISBN 3-924489-74-2 , pp. 93-101.
  • Werner Meyer: Castles and palaces in Bavarian Swabia. A manual with 122 pictures and 8 color plates , Frankfurt / Main 1979, pp. 208-213.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Amerdingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Würmseher 2016, p. 34
  2. ↑ Meyer 1979, p. 213
  3. ↑ Günter Schmitt: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 6 - Ostalb: Hiking and discovering between Ulm, Aalen and Donauwörth , p. 101

Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 31.9 ″  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 1.7 ″  E