Eisenburg Castle
The Iron Castle is under monument protection standing castle in Upper Swabia Vas , a district of Memmingen . It was the main seat of the Eisenburg rule until the secularization .
location
The lofty palace complex is located on the western edge of the village of Eisenburg in the so-called Oberdorf. It is cut off to the west, east and north by a ditch and can only be reached by a bridge in the east. Below the castle is a larger abandoned swimming pool with a working fountain. From the castle there is a good view in all directions except north. When the visibility is good, the Alps are easy to see from there. Numerous single-family houses in the Eisenburg district have been built on the Schlossberg since the early 1980s .
history
The rulership was originally owned by the Ottobeuren monastery , but was given to the empire around 972. Presumably it was used to pay for military service. The castle was probably built in the Staufer period and at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries became the center of the Eisenburg rule . The castle was first mentioned in 1208. The last knight of Eisenburg sold the castle and the remaining rule to the Memmingen patrician Settelin . As a result, ownership changed several times until the Unterhospitalstiftung Memmingen sold the castle to the Ulm patrician Neubronner in 1601 . During the Thirty Years' War the castle was destroyed in 1635 by a Swedish occupation of the imperial city of Memmingen. The new castle was built in 1656. It consisted of a two-wing complex with two polygonal towers drawn up to eaves height with two curved domes at the two eastern corners. The Neubronner family twelfth ownership in 1671 when an inheritance was divided.
The castle remained the seat of the Eisenburg rule until 1805 and the seat of the local patrimonial court until 1848 . After the death of the last landlord in 1864, the owners changed several times until the castle was sold in July 1888 to the former manufacturers - and now the Forster family. Previously, this acquired approx. 279 hectares of forest area so that the Eisenburg estate extended to almost 335 hectares after the sale. From 1893 the castle estate with its fountains and forests formed the core of the water supply in the former rulers. In 1894, the palace courtyard and palace park were architecturally connected, and a Gothic redesign took place in 1895. In 1886 and 1910 the foundation walls of the castle, which had been destroyed in the Thirty Years War, came to light when landslides. In 1914, electric light shone for the first time at Eisenburg Castle. After a fire on New Year's Eve in 1926, which destroyed the entire 2nd floor and the roof structure of the castle, it was restored to its original appearance in 1927. There are groin vaults in the basement of the east wing. In the 1960s the castle housed a housekeeping school and a boarding school (" daughter's home "). Until the second half of the 20th century, the castle estate included numerous lands and properties, such as the forester's house and the restaurant. Today one wing also serves as living space for several tenants, the castle is privately owned.
literature
- Karl Bosl (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 7: Bavaria (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 277). 3. Edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-520-27703-4 .
Web links
- Entry on Eisenburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".
Individual evidence
- ^ Eisenburg Castle in flames . In: Vossische Zeitung . January 3, 1927, morning edition, p. 3.
Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 59.2 " N , 10 ° 12 ′ 35.2" E