Dennenlohe Castle

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Dennenlohe Castle

Dennenlohe Castle is a castle from the 18th century in the village of Dennenlohe , a district of the Central Franconian community of Unterschwaningen in the district of Ansbach . It has a historic landscape park and a landscaped park that has been newly created since 1990.

Geographical location

The castle is located in the northeast of the village. The associated large park is located to the north and east of the residential palace . To the south of the privately used castle is the baroque farmyard, called "Gutshof".

history

The facility emerged from a moated castle . The oldest known owner was Hartwig I. von Lierheim , Bishop of Augsburg , who is named as lord of the castle in 1167. In the course of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period , the complex came into the hands of different families one after the other through marriage and purchase: von Truhendingen , von Leonrod and Schenk von Castell . It is possible that the Lords of Merkingen also owned the castle in the 14th century. The moated castle was abandoned and fell into disrepair, the area was still used as a manor .

In 1711 the banker Paul Martin von Eichler, Baron von Auritz, bought the facility from those of Castell and had it expanded in the following years. From 1734 he had Leopoldo Retti , court architect of the Margrave of Ansbach , build the baroque palace complex, which consists of the residential palace in early Rococo and associated economic facilities. In 1750, work on the orangery was completed. In 1773 Johann Graf von Fries acquired the complex and subsequently had the baroque garden transformed into an English landscape garden. In 1802 Karl Theodor von Pappenheim (1771-1853) bought the property as a residence for his wife, Lucia Anna Wilhelmine Christina Countess von Hardenberg-Reventlow (1776-1854), daughter of the royal Prussian state chancellor and Prince Karl August von Hardenberg . The marriage was divorced in 1817 and she married Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau for the second time . The divorced husband paid her 45,000 guilders in exchange for the castle - around 4,500,000 million euros today. The newly wed Pückler couple financed the Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau , now a UNESCO World Heritage Site . In 1825 Johann Gottlieb Süsskind, who in 1821 was raised to the status of a baron by the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph and named "Royal Bavarian Chamberlain", bought the castle in order to represent his elevation to the outside world . Since then, the castle has been owned by the family, who still use the residential building privately today.

investment

Dennenlohe Castle Park

The residential palace is a baroque three-wing complex. The front looks onto a courtyard of honor , which is flanked on both sides by a one-story cavalier's house with a mansard roof . The central part of the main building has seven window axes facing the courtyard. The three middle ones are highlighted in a gabled risalit in which the main entrance is located in the middle of the ground floor. The two side wings are relatively small with two by two window axes. The garden facade has 11 window axes. Here, too, the three middle ones are highlighted in a gabled risalit. The building is also covered with a mansard roof.

The baroque farmyard, known as the “Gutshof”, adjoins it to the south of the residential palace. The former stables, the stables in which horses were bred for the cavalry , a riding hall and a barn from 1700 are grouped around a longitudinally rectangular courtyard. The buildings are now used for gastronomy and exhibitions, including a vintage car museum. A brewery and a schnapps distillery used to be located here.

The neo-Gothic chapel in the south-west corner of the complex is an addition to the ensemble from 1868, but has an older tower from around 1490.

The complex is a cultural monument due to the Bavarian Monument Protection Act and was extensively renovated from 1994 to 1998 with the support of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

use

Today there is a vintage car museum in the estate , a restaurant in the former stables, a castle café in the orangery, a gift shop in the former pigsty and a gallery in the historic riding school.

Since 2013 there has been an international garden book library in the “Gutshof” of the castle. The books submitted for the garden book prizes are stored and archived here.

Castle Park

The castle park has the basic shape of an English landscape park and has been continuously expanded since 1980. The largest rhododendron park in southern Germany is located here, currently (2019) 26 hectares. It is recognized as a botanical garden . The landscape park is still being expanded. Much of the work should be completed by the Bavarian State Garden Show 2019, which will take place here.

Garden book prices

Awarding of the German Garden Book Prize 2018

The German Garden Book Prize has been awarded annually by and in Schloss Dennenlohe since 2006. With it, newly published books on topics related to the garden are honored, the prizes are awarded at a festive event at the castle. The award is the only such award in the German-speaking area. Over the years, the categories in which the prize is awarded have gradually increased. Today (2018) books are awarded in the following categories: illustrated book , travel guide , guide , garden or plant portrait , garden history , garden prose or poetry , children's book , garden blog , garden cookbook and garden book series .

The European Garden Book Prize has been awarded in the same context since 2011. It is awarded to books from non-German-speaking countries in Europe, to corresponding books published under license in Germany, or to books whose authors are based abroad but whose work has been published in Germany.

In 2013 the European Garden Photo Award was added. It is awarded and judged together with the British International Garden Photographer of the Year to promote garden photography.

In addition, in 2018, a sponsor of the prize awarded three special prizes for exceptional achievements with € 5,000, € 3,000 and € 2,000. The jurors include internationally known garden architects, garden experts and photographers.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dallhammer
  2. ^ Dehio: Handbook , p. 214
  3. ↑ Süsskind: Schlosspark , p. 7.
  4. ↑ Cf.: Matuschka: Adels Gardens , p. 15
  5. ^ Dehio: Handbook , p. 214
  6. ^ Matuschka: Adels Gardens , p. 11
  7. ^ Süsskind: Schlosspark , p. 87.
  8. ^ Süsskind: Schlosspark , p. 82
  9. ↑ Süsskind: Schlosspark , p. 7
  10. ^ Dehio: Handbuch , p. 215
  11. ↑ Monument No. D-5-71-208-19. See: List of architectural monuments in Unterschwaningen
  12. ↑ Süsskind: Schlosspark , p. 7
  13. ↑ https://www.gartenbuchpreis.de/
  14. ↑ German Garden Book Prize 2008 awarded . In: Börsenblatt dated April 21, 2008, accessed on March 7, 2018; Excellent for garden lovers . In: Börsenblatt of April 27, 2009, accessed on March 7, 2018; Award-winning gardening books . In: Börsenblatt dated February 21, 2011, accessed on March 7, 2018; "German Garden Book Prize 2008" awarded . In: Book Market of April 22, 2008, accessed on March 7, 2018; “German Garden Book Prize” awarded for the third time at Dennenlohe Castle . In: Book Market April 28, 2009, accessed March 7, 2018; Winner of the German Garden Book Prize chosen . In: Buchmarkt from February 18, 2011, accessed on March 7, 2018;
  15. ↑ a b The winners of the German and European Garden Book Prize 2018 have been announced! ( Memento of March 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ NN: It doesn't get any greener . In: boersenblatt.net of March 5, 2018, accessed on March 7, 2018
  17. ↑ NN: It doesn't get any greener . In: boersenblatt.net of March 5, 2018, accessed on March 7, 2018
  18. ↑ International Garden Photographer of the Year .

Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 48.3 "  N , 10 ° 36 ′ 36.1"  E