Bissingen Castle

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Bissingen

Bissingen Castle is a three-storey, gable-roof-covered rectangular building with a volute gable and square oriel towers that merge into the octagon on the third floor. It is located in the Bissingen market in the Dillingen district on the Danube . Castle and church tower over the place and can be seen from afar.

history

South front of the castle
Eastern front of the castle

Around 1140 first documentary evidence of a local nobility with Ruodbert von Bissingen. After a checkered past, Bissingen came across that u. a. owned by the Counts of Oettingen, who was Mr. Schenk von Schenkenstein , in 1557 to the Augsburg Landsknechtsführer and city governor Sebastian Schertlin von Burtenbach , who had the castle built there for his son Hans:

“ The project was completed in 1560 and secured with a wall a few years later. The representative building characterized Bissingen as the central location in the Hohenburg-Bissingen dominion "

- District and Stadtsparkasse Dillingen 2003, p. 9.

Just eight years after the palace was completed, Baron Konrad von Bemelberg the Younger acquired in 1568 after the death of his father Konrad von Bemelberg the Elder. Ä. 1567 the small lordship of Hohenburg-Bissingen . In 1661 it came back into the possession of the Counts of Oettingen-Wallerstein , who had ruled there 200 years ago. The castle was several times the widow seat of Oettingsch princesses. Until 1971 it housed the Fürstlich-Wallersteinische Forstamt .

From the palace complex of the 16th century there is still the palace structure, the palace courtyard with some outbuildings and two towers, the so-called Schertlin towers, which probably served as the corner towers of the palace courtyard.

Today the castle is privately owned. Concert events with international artists have been held since 2013. The new series is called punkt5 .

Award

In 2015 the castle was awarded the Swabian Monument Prize.

literature

Web links

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

Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 59.7 "  N , 10 ° 37 ′ 11.5"  E