Eppishausen Castle

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Eppishausen Castle
Eppishausen Castle

Eppishausen Castle is the name of a castle in Eppishausen in the municipality of Erlen , Canton Thurgau , Switzerland .

The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1190. In 1405 it was destroyed by the Appenzeller, the owners at that time were the lords of Helmsdorf and Bernhausen . In 1698 the Benedictine monastery Muri bought it . In the same year the St. Albans Chapel was rebuilt. Between 1760 and 1763 the castle was redesigned in the baroque style.

From 1813 to 1837, Eppishausen Castle was owned by the Germanist and writer Joseph von Lassberg , who was supported in the acquisition by Elisabeth zu Fürstenberg , who lived there with him for a time. During this time Lassberg called himself Master Sepp von Eppishusen and received many famous contemporaries in his unique library, including the poet Ludwig Uhland , the German scholars Jacob Grimm and Karl Lachmann as well as the historians Johann Pupikofer and Johann Caspar Zellweger . During a visit, Werner von Haxthausen brokered Lassberg's marriage to Jenny, b. Baron Droste zu Hülshoff , whose twin daughters Hildegunde and Hildgarde were born at Eppishausen Castle in 1836. The poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff lived with them in 1835/36, during their so-called "Swiss Year" .

Her cycle of poems Der Säntis and the most eloquent of her letters , for example, with descriptions of the Alpine landscape, were written in the palace gardens. In other letters she described her excursions in the area and visits to Count Thurn-Valsassina at Berg Castle TG . Due to political changes in Thurgau, Lassberg sold the castle in 1837 and acquired Meersburg Castle as the new seat .

From 1853 Colonel Salomon Hegner resided at Eppishausen Castle. In 1961, the order of the Bonitas Dei Sisters acquired Eppishausen Castle as the mother house, which has served as an old people's and nursing home under the direction of the sisters since 1962.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff : 900 years Droste zu Hülshoff . Verlag LPV Hortense von Gelmini, Horben 2018, ISBN 978-3-936509-16-8
  2. ↑ Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff : Annette von Droste-Hülshoff in the field of tension between her family , CA Starke-Verlag, 1997
  3. ^ Thurgau yearbook: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff at Eppishausen Castle. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  4. ^ Albert M. Debrunner: "Thurgau Literature Guide". Verlag Huber 2008, p. 129 ff.
  5. ^ Verena Rothenbühler: Eppishausen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '42.1 "  N , 9 ° 14' 15.3"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and thirty-five thousand four hundred and twenty-one  /  two hundred sixty-seven thousand five hundred eighty-six