Emmenhausen Castle

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Emmenhausen Castle
Emmenhausen Castle.jpg
Creation time : New building in 1474
Conservation status: Wall partially preserved
Standing position : Patrician
Place: Emmenhausen
Geographical location 47 ° 59 '44.4 "  N , 10 ° 48' 16.9"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '44.4 "  N , 10 ° 48' 16.9"  E
Emmenhausen Castle (Bavaria)
Emmenhausen Castle
Wall around Emmenhausen Castle (1973)
Wall around Emmenhausen Castle (2013)

The so-called Schloss Emmenhausen stood in Emmenhausen , a district of Waal .

description

Emmenhausen Castle was on the hill about 300 meters southeast of the parish church. The illustration is a replica from the Kaufbeurer country table in the Kaufbeuren city museum . This is dated between 1600 and 1650. After that, the "castle" consisted of a high residential tower with a high watch and farm buildings. The complex was fenced in with a wall. It is not known whether the picture corresponded to reality.

Today only a formerly roughly square wall can be seen to the south and west, which is about 3 meters high. It had a side length of about 70 meters. When it was raised is unclear. The illustration of the country table does not show it, but it is entered in its entirety in the Bavarian first recording sheet from 1811. Here you can also see the floor plan of a building with a length of 24 meters and a width of 11 meters that stood in the "castle garden". It was probably the so-called Zehentstadel (old house number 40).

history

After the old Burgstall Emmenhausen was given up as a residential building, the local lords Ulrich, Anton, Hans and Peter Honold began to build a castle "from scratch" at great expense. According to another interpretation, this happened around 1480. In 1482 and 1484, two children of Anton Honold were born in Emmenhausen.

After the Emmenhausen estate was sold by the Honolian heirs in 1609 to the Holy Cross Monastery in Augsburg , the latter appointed so-called bailiffs in the new acquisition , who may initially still have their residence in the castle. For 1698 it is then handed down that the castle is an "ancient building". At this point in time, the bailiffs probably lived in the castle's property no. 39 outside the northern wall, but certainly the last bailiff and later royal Bavarian forest hunter Nikolaus Früholz, who is remembered by a plaque in the parish church of Emmenhausen. Früholz suffered great damage when Napoleonic troops looted Emmenhausen in July 1800 . He stated that he personally suffered a loss of 482 guilders. The French had also penetrated the "stately castle". They would have blown open doors and boxes and stole bedding and a large pendulum clock . It can therefore be assumed that rooms in the castle were still habitable, although it is reported that a gradual decline took place there from 1780.

In 1826, Emmenhausen Castle was demolished.

Castle chapel

From the preaching books of the parish of Emmenhausen it is clear that there was a chapel in the castle. She had her patronage on August 5th ( Maria zum Schnee ). Holy mass was held there in 1774 and 1793. In 1794 there was a procession to the "capella Arcis", where a rosary was prayed. The chapel is last mentioned in 1801 when the pastor held a weather mass there for the community.

After secularization in 1803, bailiff Früholz (1750–1833) took all of the furnishings, only the missal was given to the local pastor for a fee. In 1832 church equipment was auctioned in the rectory, presumably also from the castle chapel.

With the demolition of Emmenhausen Castle, the chapel there also disappeared.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical notes in the file Kloster Hl. Kreuz Augsburg Lit. A B3 / 1 No. 71/3 (1973 in the Main State Archive Munich)
  2. ↑ Steichele, p. 59
  3. ↑ Chronicle of Honold von Luchs in the Protestant Church Archives in Kaufbeuren
  4. ↑ Kloster Hl. Kreuz Augsburg Lit. A No. 71 (1973 in the Main State Archives Munich)
  5. ^ Bertold Pölcher: House Chronicle of Emmenhausen, Vol. II, p. 42
  6. ↑ List of the damage caused by French troops in 1800 , in the Waal municipal archive
  7. ↑ Steichele, p. 59

literature

  • Anton von Steichele: The Diocese of Augsburg , Vol. 6, 1883
  • Christian Frank: Deutsche Gaue 1899, Volume I, p. 42