Ammerland Castle

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Engraving by Michael Wening from 1701. The old castle and the castle chapel can be seen behind the New Castle.
Wilhelm von Kobell : Gathering thunderstorm over Ammerland Castle, watercolor over pen, 1798.
Max Joseph Wagenbauer: Ammerland Castle (colored lithograph, 1810); In the foreground the ship's hut and the utility building, in the background the New Palace.
The new castle today.

Ammerland Castle is located on Lake Starnberg in the Ammerland district of the Münsing community . The hidden old castle dates from the 16th century. The new castle with the two onion domes, located directly on the lake, was built in 1683/85 by Caspar Feichtmayr in the style of the Wessobrunn school . In 1990 it was renovated after it was close to decay. Today it is privately owned.

Castle owners and residents

The Lerchenfeld , who lived in the old castle, appear as the first owners of the noble seat, which was raised to Hofmark in 1596 . From 1681, Ammerland then belonged to three clergy princes from the Wittelsbach family in succession : Albrecht Sigmund (1623–1685), Bishop of Freising and Regensburg, was the builder of the New Palace . It was followed by Joseph Clemens (1671–1723), Archbishop of Cologne and Bishop of Regensburg, Freising, Hildesheim and Liège , and Johann Theodor (1703–1763), Cardinal and Bishop of Regensburg, Freising and Liège. After the death of the latter, the Hofmark reverted to the ruling house, which it lent to Foreign Minister Johann Joseph Graf von Baumgarten (1713–1772) and his wills heirs in 1770 . In 1815 the rule of law was lifted and Ammerland was declared the free property of the then fiefdom bearer Karl Graf von Baumgarten (1779–1834).

In 1816 - with the knowledge of King Max Joseph - Napoleon's loyal faithful , Count Lavallette (1769–1830), who had been sentenced to death , was hiding in the Old Castle .

Baumgarten sold the castle property in 1818 to the Swiss entrepreneur and revolutionary Hieronymus von Meyer (1769–1844). He and his brother Johann Rudolf (1768–1825) climbed the Jungfrau in 1811, making them the first people in Switzerland to climb a four-thousand-meter peak. In 1821 the estate passed into the possession of the lawyer Alois Ritter von Lengriesser, who sold it back to the crown in 1841.

King Ludwig I left Ammerland as a lieutenant general Fabrizio Graf von Pocci (1766–1844). His son Count Franz von Pocci (1807–1876) used it as a summer residence. The Punch Count made the castle a cultural center. In 1853 the painter Moritz von Schwind (1804–1871) was a guest at Ammerland Castle for a long time.

Max von Oppenheim (1860–1946) lived for a short time at the end of the Second World War with his sister Wanda von Pocci at Ammerland Palace.

In 1966 a Munich hotelier bought the castle.

In February 2016 Werner Döttinger, who acquired Ammerlander Schloss in 1988, received the Gabriel von Max Monument Prize for the extensive restoration of the castle.

literature

  • Georg Paula , Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.5 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-87490-573-X .
  • Lorenz von Westenrieder: Description of the Wurm or Starenbergersee. Munich 1784, pp. 80-82.
  • Heinrich Konrad Föringer: The Würmsee and its banks. Munich 1845, p. 21 f.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ammerland Castle at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed September 9, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geodaten.bayern.de
  2. ↑ Lavallette's escape from death row is mentioned by Stendhal in Le rouge et le noir (chap. 67, 71). Golo Mann describes it in: A true story, ed. by Peter Marxer, Kilchberg 1985. On the stay at Lake Starnberg cf. Mémoires et souvenirs du comte Lavallette (…), 2nd volume, J. Fournier jeune, Paris 1831, p. 334 ff. ( Digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fgallica.bnf.fr%2Fark%3A%2F12148%2Fbpt6k6504101d%2Ff344~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D ).
  3. ↑ Peter Genner: From Aarau to Bavaria. Emigration and decline of the Meyer entrepreneurial family. In: Aarauer Neujahrsblätter, 2011, pp. 36–69, 2012, pp. 97–143. Peter Genner: After the rule of the monastery - Swiss revolutionaries in the Pfaffenwinkel. In: Der Welf, Yearbook of the Historical Association Schongau, 2013, pp. 69–192 ( digitized version http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F27650986%2FAfter_dem_End_der_Klosterherrschaft_Schweizer_Revolution%C3%A4re_im_Pfaffenwinkel%3D%3D%3D~IA%3ZD%3D%3D%3D~IA%3D%3D~MD 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D).
  4. ^ Helmut Wiechert: Fünfseenland. 36 bike tours around Lake Starnberg, Ammersee, Pilsensee, Wörthsee and Weßlinger See . Bergverlag Rother , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3763350025 , p. 120 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Michael Dirrigl: Maximilian II. Part 1. ISBN 978-3880341821 , p. 1181.
  6. ↑ Gabriele Teichmann, Gisela Völger (Ed.): Fascination Orient. Max von Oppenheim, researcher, collector, diplomat . DuMont, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3832158491 , p. 93 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Website of the Protection Association for the Eastern Shore of Starnberger See e. V.

Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 19 ″  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 3.6 ″  E