Ebnet Castle

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Ebnet Castle is a baroque mansion in Ebnet , a district of Freiburg im Breisgau .

history

Farm building, chapel and main building
Driveway and gate, behind the chapel
Autumn (JC Wentzinger)

As early as 1113, the monastery of St. Peter in the Black Forest acquired property in Ebnet through an exchange of goods from Duke Berthold von Zähringen . As early as 1348, a knight Schnewlin von Landeck , a member of an influential family in Breisgau , was referred to as lord on Ebnet. Ebnet came into the possession of the Barons of Sickingen , a noble family from Baden , through the marriage of Anna von Landeck, the last representative of the Schnewlin von Landeck family, in 1568 .

They had a castle built in Ebnet in 1696 and used it as a summer residence. Your city ​​palace in Freiburg is now the seat of the regional court . The barons' lordship with the Breisgau was transferred to the Baden state in 1804 , to which the Sickingers also sold the castle in 1809. The grandson of Grand Duke Carl sold it to the Barons von Gayling von Altheim in 1811 , who still live there today.

The castle was built from 1748 on behalf of Baron Ferdinand Sebastian von Sickingen-Hohenberg based on a design by the architect Johann Jacob Fechter from Basel, because the previous building no longer met the client's requirements. For the artistic design, important baroque artists from the region were called in, in particular Christian Wentzinger , who created the human-sized sandstone sculptures in the castle park, the originals of which are now in the city ​​museum . The stucco work in the 14 rooms of the castle comes from the Wessobrunnner Hans Georg Gigl , the richly decorated stucco masks in the garden room from Wentzinger. The ceiling paintings, especially in the garden room, are mainly allegorical and date from 1750 and were made by the Allgäu painter Benedikt Gambs . The ceiling of the garden room is signed by the artist. After Gamb's death, the ceiling painting of the magnificent staircase was created by Johann Pfunner (* circa 1713/16 - † 1788), who came from Tyrol and lived in Freiburg.

The appearance before the renovation is documented on the high altar picture in the Ebnet parish church of St. Hilarius . The picture was painted by Franz Bernhard Altenburger in 1730 and shows Hilarius and the second patron of the church, St. Remigius, as they deflect the gifts of God down to Ebnet, whose view of the place is unfolded by angels. This view of the town shows the earlier appearance of the town and the castle.

The castle was not bombed during the Second World War , but the Volkssturm blew up the Eschbach Bridge in front of the castle and caused considerable damage. Numerous windows and parts of the roof were broken. The ceiling painting in the garden hall, which was later restored, was hit worst.

During the war, up to 100 refugees from the Ruhr area and Ludwigshafen, but also from Freiburg and the surrounding area, were housed in the castle and the outbuildings. The later Minister of Culture of Bavaria, Hans Maier , also spent the night of bombing on November 27, 1944 in the Ebneter Schlosskeller. The last refugees did not leave the property until 1950/51. The kitchen was originally in the basement and was only moved to the ground floor in 1958. The castle also served as one of the locations for the 1958 music and homeland film Schwarzwälder Kirsch .

The castle was extensively restored in the 1980s. In the castle park, the Theodor Egel Hall was built in place of a coach house, which now serves as a rehearsal room for the Freiburg Bach Choir . Today the castle is only open to the public for special cultural events such as the Ebnet cultural summer or on the day of the open monument .

In 1991/92 the historic riding hall, dismantled at the Rosenstiel riding club in Littenweiler, with a riding arena measuring 20 × 40 m, was faithfully rebuilt in the Ebneter Schlosspark. In the riding arena is the Holzingstube, which is named after Max Freiherr von Holzing-Berstett (1867 to 1936). Holzing-Berstett was a dressage rider and significantly involved in the international dressage rules that apply today. The “Ebnet Stork School” has also been in the room since 2006, where it permanently presents information about the life of the animals.

construction

The palace complex is of the "Hôtel entre Cour et Jardin" type - a palace between the courtyard and the garden. The building group consists of four parts: the porter's house, the farm building opposite, the chapel and the main building, which are grouped around a spacious courtyard. The main facade faces the garden. A forward central gable is adorned with the splendid coat of arms of the family and is emphasized by the balcony and the double flight of stairs. The builder was Simon Schratt (1714–1781) from Altstätten from Oberallgäu. At the other end of the garden are the outbuildings such as stables, coach houses and barns.

In order to be able to renovate and maintain the castle (estimated costs at least two million euros), the owners planned to build a holiday apartment resort in the riding arena and barn and a restaurant in the vaulted cellar of the castle. The German Foundation for Monument Protection will grant 100,000 euros for the roof renovation in 2020 .

Castle chapel

At the entrance to the left, opposite the gatehouse, is the Holy Cross Chapel. It was built in 1732, before the palace was built, and then became part of the palace complex. It was connected to the north wing of the castle during renovations around 1748 and served as a worship and prayer room for the castle rulers. From 1811 it was used as a castle kitchen, already deprived of its furnishings. After the castle kitchen was relocated to the main building, the chapel was used as a place of worship for the Protestant community in Dreisamtal from 1958 onwards. From 1979 to 1984 it was the Church of the Orthodox Congregation of John the Baptist . After renewed profanation and subsequent restoration, the Baron Gayling von Altenheimsche Gesamtarchiv was housed here. After the archive was taken over by the State Archives , the chapel was restored to its original purpose on October 29, 2017 as the Sickingen Chapel . However, it is now open to all faiths at the request of the host. A new bell was also cast.

literature

  • Baroque Gayling von Altheim'sches Gesamtarchiv Schloss Ebnet (Hrsg.): Baroque castle Ebnet near Freiburg i. Br. Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Munich and Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-7954-0468-1
  • Paul-René Zander: The rococo castle Ebnet near Freiburg i. Br. (= Schnell Art Guide No. 2256). Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7954-6007-7
  • Silvia Huth, Manfred Frust: Castles on the Upper Rhine. History and stories. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-87407-793-4 , p. 126 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden . Volume 6. Mohr, Tübingen and Leipzig 1904, p. [1] .
  2. ↑ Fabian manual Freiherr von Gayling'sche Fidei commis
  3. ↑ The family has been called von Gayling-Westphal since 1986
  4. ^ A b c Doris Huggel: Johann Jakob Fechter (1717–1797), engineer in Basel . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2004, ISBN 3-89870-147-6 ; Review by Adolf J. Schmid , in: Badisch Heimat 4/2004 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ Hermann Brommer : Freiburg-Ebnet. Catholic parish church St. Hilarius . Munich and Zurich, Schnell & Steiner 1981.
  6. ^ Adolf Schmid: Ebnet in the Dreisamtal. Schillinger Verlag, Freiburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-89155-246-9 .
  7. ↑ A flat cultural summer. Retrieved June 30, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Joachim Röderer: Gem with renovation backlog. Badische Zeitung, November 14, 2018, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
  9. ↑ BZ editorial team: Ebnet Castle receives 100,000 euros for the roof renovation. Badische Zeitung, August 28, 2020, accessed on August 28, 2020 .
  10. ↑ cf. Paul-René Zander: The rococo castle Ebnet near Freiburg i. Br.
  11. ↑ Jule Arwinski: Castle again with chapel - Freiburg Ost - Badische Zeitung. Badische Zeitung, November 2, 2017, accessed on November 2, 2017 .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 14 ″  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 6 ″  E