Bonndorf Castle

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Bonndorf Castle, view from the Upper Castle Garden
Back with staircase extension

The Bonndorf Castle is a castle in the city bonndorf in the district of Waldshut .

history

The beginnings

At the site of the current palace building there was probably a previous building at the end of the 13th century, a »Säßhaus«, after a castle had previously been located on the Lindenbuck . The "Säßhaus" was probably owned by the Lords of Wolfurt from Wolfurt in Vorarlberg (where their ancestral castle Wolfurt still stands), which had been destroyed by a fire in the fireplace .

The von Wolfurt family owned Tannegg Castle and the Birkendorf rulership. They founded the Pauline monastery in Bonndorf in 1402 and occupied it with Pauline monks from the Pauline monastery in Tannheim . After the Wolfurtern, this previous building came into the possession of the von Falkenstein family and, via the knight Hans von Rechberg, to the Counts of Lupfen . During their reign, Bonndorf was captured by the Confederation in the Waldshut War in 1468 and the Peasants' War in 1524/25: "We do not know whether the aforementioned Säßhaus was damaged during these events, but this can be assumed." With the death of Heinrich von Lupfen In 1582 the family died out and the county of Bonndorf was to fall to Conrad von Pappenheim . However, since he appropriated this too quickly, the emperor punished him, and the rule came first to Karl von Zollern and then to Baron Peter von Mörsberg . “In addition, the Pappenheimers had to pay Joachim Christoph von Mörsberg, the son of Peters von Mörsberg, the sum of 300,000 fl.” The Säßhaus burned down in 1592. "Peter von Mörsberg decided (unfortunately as the sources say) to build a representative new castle on the same building site, in line with contemporary tastes."

New construction and renovation

Depiction of the castle on a processional flag from Bonndorf: with stepped gables but without a castle chapel

Peter von Mörsberg († around 1594) and his son Joachim Christoph von Mörsberg probably built today's castle as a moated castle in the Renaissance style. The construction costs of the building erected between 1592 and 1595 were so high that Joachim von Mörsberg was forced to sell in 1613. The von Mörsberg family descends from the Morimont line . In 1686 Ulrich von Mörsberg was the last of his tribe. The Bonndorf rulership was acquired by Abbot Martin I for the St. Blasien monastery for 150,000  guilders .

Abbot Blasius III. had the property converted into a baroque country palace from 1723 to 1727 and added two towers, a portal with an outside staircase and a staircase extension on the south side. The building was completed under Abbot Franz II. Schächtelin, with the ballroom on the upper floor only being completed with a mirror vault under Abbot Martin Gerbert . The stucco mirror vault is decorated with a fresco by Franz Josef Spiegler . The main fresco shows Christ and the disciples. In the four corner spandrels there are allegories of the four continents and in four cartouches in the center of the sides putti with symbols that refer to the builder of the castle, Abbot Blasius III. Notify Bender. In the numerous rooms there is stucco by the Freiburg plasterer Franz Joseph Vogel with tendrils and bands.

description

Portal coat of arms of Blasius III. Bender

The building is three-story and nine axes wide, the main front faces north. The strong facade painting includes gables , pilasters , shell work , tendrils , scrollwork and volutes . The copper roofs of the towers have bizarrely shaped onion domes with spikes. On the hipped roof there are dragons made of sheet copper as gargoyles . The rooms on the ground floor contain groin vaults . The baroque portal is crowned by the coat of arms of Abbot Blasisus III. Bender.

The palace chapel moved to the city garden

Until the renovation by Abbot Blasius III. Bender had a small chapel in the castle. In 1727, a free-standing baroque castle chapel, the St. Nicholas Chapel , was built from red sandstone north of the castle . After secularization , when the castle came to the Grand Duchy of Baden , the castle chapel was no longer used, which is why it was moved to the new cemetery, which later became the city garden, at the beginning of the 19th century. The frescoes created by Spiegler were lost.

The castle is surrounded by two park- like gardens , the Upper and Lower Castle Gardens. Both gardens are delimited by a fence, with a wrought-iron gate leading into both the upper and lower palace gardens.

use

With the secularization , the castle came to the Grand Duchy of Baden and is now owned by the Waldshuts district . For a few years after the Second World War, the castle housed an arts and crafts school and a trade school. The notary's office , the district court and, until the construction of the education center, two school classes were housed in the castle. After extensive renovations in the 1970s, the castle is now used as a venue for concerts, readings and exhibitions. It also houses the city library, the notary's office and the palace jesters rooms. The Schlossnarrenstuben on the ground floor and basement show over 400 carnival miniature figures in 15 rooms, presentations of various fools' associations, historical exhibits and fool's robes.

International concerts and readings by authors take place in the ballroom of the palace. Exhibitions on classical modernism and contemporary art take place in the adjoining halls.

The most important Bonndorf exhibitions in recent years have focused on the works of Horst Antes , Max Beckmann , Christo and Jeanne-Claude , HAP Grieshaber , Erich Heckel , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Käthe Kollwitz , Emil Nolde , Richard Ziegler , Oskar Schlemmer and Franz Xaver Winterhalter .

Among others, the Mandelring Quartet , the pianist Angela Hewitt , the Leipzig String Quartet and the Cuarteto Casals could be heard . Literary guests were u. a. Peter Bichsel , Durs Grünbein , Peter Härtling , Thomas Hürlimann , Adolf Muschg , Arnold Stadler , Urs Widmer and Navid Kermani .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bonndorf in the Black Forest (Altgemeinde-Teilort) - detail page. leo-bw.de, accessed on January 17, 2016 .
  2. ^ Rudolf Metz : Geological regional studies of the Hotzenwald . Lahr 1980, p. 914.
  3. ↑ Judith and Hans Jakob Wörner: The former princely castle in Bonndorf , special edition from the series "Heimat am Hochrhein" of the Hochrhein history association, Waldshut-Tiengen 1977, p. 5.
  4. ↑ As a result of the entanglements that had arisen, the son Maximilian von Pappenheim later saw himself compelled to sell extensive property (Blumenegg, Gutenburg, Bettmaringen, Birkendorf, Grafenhausen and the Berau Bailiwick) to the St. Blasien monastery.
  5. ^ Judith and Hans Jakob Wörner: The former princely castle of Bonndorf , p. 6.
  6. ^ Rudolf Metz: Geological regional studies of the Hotzenwald . Lahr 1980, p. 914 ff.
  7. ^ Judith and Hans Jakob Woerner, 1977, Heimatbuch für den Waldshut district , 2nd edition 1979, p. 149.
  8. ↑ Information on the Bonndorf City Library , accessed on December 17, 2015

Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 8.7 "  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 29.5"  E