Ellingen residence

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Steel engraving of the castle from 1870

The Residenz Ellingen is a castle in Ellingen in the Middle Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .

Building history and building description

From 1216 to 1789 Ellingen was the residence of the Landkomturs of the Ballei Franken of the Teutonic Order . The current palace complex, which was built from 1708 to around 1760, was preceded by several medieval buildings and a Renaissance structure. Today's main building was built between 1717 and 1721 by the architect Franz Keller according to plans by Wilhelm Heinrich Behringer under the direction of Karl Heinrich von Hornstein . Various ceiling paintings, wall paneling and floors, but also stucco by Franz Joseph Roth, have been preserved from this period. The colonnadesin the inner courtyard were created by Pierre Michel d'Ixnard around 1775. In 1815 King Maximilian I Joseph handed the palace over to his field marshal Prince Carl Philipp von Wrede , who had some rooms decorated with silk and paper wallpaper as well as furniture, glass and bronze figures from Paris . Around 1939 the von Wrede family sold the castle to the Bavarian state . Today it is maintained by the Bavarian Palace Administration, which carried out many maintenance measures around 1990 such as gutting the attic floors and renovating the foundations.

  • Access from the east

  • Main facade

  • Main facade

  • Access from the west

  • Castle church from the inner courtyard

  • Tower of the castle church

use

Contemporary showrooms are housed in the main wing and part of the east wing of the palace. The castle church, which is essentially Gothic and which was thoroughly baroque in the 18th century by Franz Keller , Franz Joseph Roth , Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer and Matthias Binder, has around 300 seats, and the inner courtyard is used several times a year for concert performances . The church can be rented for weddings.

Scilla blossom in the castle garden

The other part of the east wing is uninhabited; the descendants of the former owner Carl Philipp von Wrede have rights of residence there. In the estate behind the castle is the rent office, from which the castle brewery Ellingen , the land and the tree nursery of the von Wrede family are managed. Some of the stables are used for horses, a painting school has been set up in some rooms and Sophie Baronin and Erwein Freiherr von Aretin, the senior citizens of today's von Wrede family, lived in the building next to the Brühltor, which was destroyed in World War II.

The west wing is home to the East Prussia Cultural Center with its permanent exhibitions and special shows.

A view of the Ellingen Castle Park from 1726 shows the ideal image of a baroque garden. In the 19th century it was transformed into an English landscape garden, numerous species of trees were planted and a garden pavilion was built. It was partially destroyed in the Second World War, and today only a balustrade remains as a park architecture . In addition to the old and species-rich trees, including a 200-year-old ginkgo , the flowering of the blue starlets ( Scilla siberica ) at Easter is remarkable. The park is now three hectares and is maintained by the Bavarian Administration of Palaces, Gardens and Lakes .

  • Farm yard of the residence.

  • Former riding arena.

  • North access from the Hofgarten.

literature

  • Christoph Graf [von] arrow: Residence Ellingen. Official leader. 8th revised and redesigned edition. Bavarian Palace Administration , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-932982-59-2 .
  • Wolfgang Wüst : Ellingen, the Ballei Franken and the Teutonic Order - cultural and political model of a lost world in the region? In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research. 69, 2010, ISSN  0446-3943 , pp. 155-172.

Web links

Commons : Residenz Ellingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 39 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 56 ″  E