Bedernau Castle

The Castle Bedernau located in Bedernau , in the municipality of Breitenbrunn in the district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria . In the 12th century Bedernau was named as the seat of a Guelph ministry. The first mention of a castle took place in 1453. The palace complex that exists today is probably based on the main features of the 16th century and was last renovated in 1966–1968. The interior of the castle was heavily redesigned and renewed.

history

Heinrich von Bedernau as the Welf Ministerial is mentioned in Bedernau for the period from 1160 to 1172. From the middle of the 13th century, the lords of Mindelheim ruled Bedernau, and in the late 13th century the canons Heinrich and Walter von Hochschlitz from Augsburg . Eitel von Burgau, who had rulership in the middle of the 14th century, sold it to the dukes of Teck , who in turn gave the rulership in 1401 as a fief to the rule of Mindelheim an der Lichtenau. In 1453, the year a castle was first mentioned, it was owned by the Stebenhaber family in Memmingen.

The castle fell into disrepair during the Thirty Years' War and was renovated again in the middle of the 17th century. In 1665 rule passed to the Counts of Muggentahl. Elector Maximilian III. Joseph von Bayern acquired this in 1763 and enfeoffed his court chamber councilor and court paymaster Joseph Iganz von Kretz with it. In 1764 and 1765 he had the castle, which was very dilapidated, and the outbuildings completely renovated. As early as 1766, the castle of Elector Maximilien III. bought back. Elector Karl II. Theodor gave the castle as a fief to the secret State Councilor Joseph Sebastian Baron von Castell. His descendants subsequently inhabit the castle.

Building description

South side of Bedernau Castle

The castle, which is located northwest of the St. Georg Church , is a cubic building with three floors. It consists of five to four axes and is covered with a pyramid roof. Both on the ridge and to the north of it there are chimneys with profiled cornices. The main entrance to the castle can be reached on the south side via a bridge with a neo-baroque stone balustrade from the end of the 19th century. Both the rectangular entrance door and the two windows to the right and left of it are surrounded by modern stone frames with keystones from 1966 . The stairwell is housed in a rectangular risalit on the north side . At the castle corners on the north side there are free-standing, cylindrically shaped towers with conical roofs . The upper floors of the tower are connected to the first floor of the castle itself by means of a covered walkway. The transitions are with a gable roof covered and each resting on a sheet. Such towers were also formerly on the south side. The location of the southern towers can be recognized by the renewed surrounding wall, which protrudes like a roundabout at the corresponding point. A corridor leads to the church of St. George over a small bridge from the south-eastern roundabout to the rule oratorio in the church.

The interior of the castle was heavily renovated. Two basement rooms with barrel vaults are on the east side. Arched stairs lead up between these. There is a flat ceiling over the throat in the middle corridor of the castle, at the north end of which there is a two-flight staircase. Groin vaults are attached over the runs and platforms of the stairs . On the second floor there is a hall with three to two axes. The collar beam roof probably dates from around 1764.

literature

Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district - Bavarian art monuments . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Res. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 84, 85 .

Web links

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

48.11763 10.3909Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 3.5 ″ N , 10 ° 23 ′ 27.2 ″ E