Aspenstein Castle

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Aspenstein Castle with the Georg von Vollmar Academy guest house in the foreground
The rose terrace of Aspenstein Castle with a view of the Kochelsee
Aspenstein Castle in Kochel am See

The Aspenstein Castle (Aspensteinschlössl) in Kochel am See was originally built on behalf of the Benediktbeuern Monastery when Kochel was still part of the Benediktbeuern monastery . After secularization in 1803, it changed hands several times - including Reich youth leader Baldur von Schirach . Today it houses the Georg von Vollmar Academy , which operates its educational establishment here as a permanent place of learning with seminars on political education and a conference center for external providers.

history

Castle Aspenstein was from 1675 to 1694 as a two-storey Walmdachbau with attached private chapel for the monastery built Benediktbeuern and served until the secularization in 1803 as a summer residence for abbots and as a retirement and convalescent home of the Benedictine monks of the monastery Benediktbeuern.

As part of the secularization, the Aspensteinschlössel passed into the possession of Bavaria in 1803 and was acquired in the same year by the Bavarian Finance Councilor Georg Freiherr von Stengel . From 1815 to 1836 the wine owner Ignaz Huber owned the castle. Subsequently it was acquired by Georg von Dessauer ; The castle remained in the possession of the Dessauer family until 1936. On March 12, 1936, the rather dilapidated baroque castle Aspenstein passed into the possession of Baldur von Schirach , the Reich youth leader and later NSDAP Gauleiter in Vienna . The Schirach family renovated the house and lived in it until 1940, after the war the house was expropriated.

In 1945 the Aspensteinschlössl fell to the Free State of Bavaria . Initially, however, the headquarters of the 10th US Armored Division was located here , until it provided accommodation for so-called Displaced Persons (DPs) in 1946 .

After it lost this function again in 1948, the American military government handed it over to the Bavarian SPD as a training home, named after the politician and first chairman of the Bavarian SPD Georg von Vollmar , the Georg-von-Vollmar-Schule, which was founded in 1968 in Georg- von Vollmar Academy was renamed. The Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie - with additional guest houses and seminar rooms - is housed here to this day.

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 .
  • Josef Hemmerle : The Benedictine monasteries in Bavaria (= Germania Benedictina , Volume 2), Munich 1970, pp. 61–67.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '22.3 "  N , 11 ° 21' 33.3"  E