Biederstein Castle

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New (left) and old Biederstein Castle (right) around 1830, aquatint by Carl August Lebschée
Biederstein Castle, watercolor by Heinrich Adam , Munich, State Graphic Collections
Aerial view of the old castle, 1890

The Biederstein Castle was a castle in the Munich district of Schwabing in today Biedersteiner street / Biedersteiner tunnel north of Kleinhesseloher lake . It consisted of two different old buildings, the so-called Old Castle and the New Castle .

history

At the beginning of the 18th century, a first, simple mansion with two floors was built. It had a hipped roof and was divided into five axes by windows. Elector Karl Theodor von der Pfalz-Sulzbach gave it in 1784 as a knightly fief to the Privy Councilor Baron Stephan von Stengel .

In 1803, King Max I of Bavaria acquired the building and gave it to his wife Karoline as a country house. According to plans by the court architect Franz Thun , it was redesigned in 1804 before five-axis extensions were added on both sides in 1825. Queen Caroline used the palace complex as a widow's residence after the death of her husband.

In the period from 1826 to 1830, the neo-classical New Palace was built very close to the plans by the architect Leo von Klenze . In the palace park , which is no longer preserved , there was also a belvedere by Karl von Fischer .

The SS riding school was housed on the grounds of the New Palace , which was demolished in 1934, until 1945.

The old castle was destroyed in the Second World War (1944). In 1945 its ruins were removed. Duke Luitpold Emanuel in Bavaria sold the Biederstein Castle property. From 1951 to 1955, a student housing estate was built in its place by the architects Otto Roth and Harald Roth with the assistance of Charles Crodel .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Munich streets and squares and their origins . In: Biederstein Castle and Park, Munich-Schwabing . No. 8, October 2006, p. 12.
  2. ↑ Ilse Macek (Ed.): Marginalized - disenfranchised - deported. Schwabing and Schwabinger fates 1933 to 1945 , Volk Verlag (Munich) 2008, p. 288.
  3. ↑ Ceramic wall for House 4 ( Memento from March 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

literature

  • Werner Meyer: Castles and palaces in Bavaria . Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1961.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '54 "  N , 11 ° 35' 48"  E