Fürstenstein Castle (Berchtesgaden)

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left: Fürstenstein Castle with the spire of the chapel; right: the Maierhof belonging to it left: Fürstenstein Castle with the spire of the chapel; right: the Maierhof belonging to it
left: Fürstenstein Castle with the spire of the chapel; right: the Maierhof belonging to it

The Książ was 1758 Prince Provost Michael Balthasar of Christalnigg (1710-1768) halfway up the calf stone near the center of the market Berchtesgaden building, which also includes a chapel and other buildings such as a Meierhof belonged. Shortly before his death, the prince provost gave the castle to his monastery chapter and the Augustinian canons of the prince provost of Berchtesgaden on March 17, 1768 . The castle is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments. Today's postal address of the castle is Fürstensteinweg 14, 83471 Berchtesgaden.

history

Castle entrance with the coat of arms of its first owner, Prince Provost Michael Balthasar von Christalnigg

lock

A. Helm listed the castle as the " Lustschloß ", and according to him, the Kälberstein was still called Georgenberg when it was built in 1758 . The castle is a three-storey gable roof building with a dwelling and a classical plaster structure, which was structurally changed at the end of the 18th century and in 1916.

Prince Provost Michael Balthasar von Christalnigg had already acquired the building land for his Fürstenstein Castle in 1751 and paid for it out of his own pocket. When, a few months before his death, he bequeathed the castle with all the outbuildings and the entire inventory to his monastery chapter, this was done with the stipulation that the calvary , which was part of the castle and was also furnished by him, was to be maintained. But already on December 2, 1795, the monastery chapter sold the castle for 600 guilders to the “Princely Court and Government Councilor , Land Care Court Commissioner ” Johann Baptist Hasel, a great-grandfather of Mauritia Mayer (1833-1897), who subsequently became “Edler von Hasel Fürstenstein ”. The sale by the last prince provost Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg-Mös was, however, very likely also under the sign of at least paying off some of the immensely high debt of the prince provost that had accumulated over the centuries.

After the prince-provosty was abolished in the course of secularization in Bavaria , a Michael Pirngruber became the owner of the property in 1803 and set up the "first pharmacy" in Berchtesgaden and maintained it in the building until around 1825. The next known owner was the Bavarian Teachers' Association ( BLLV), who acquired the property piece by piece between 1909 and 1930 and then made it available to teachers for their holidays until the 1980s. In the 1990s, after a partial renovation, part of the property was permanently rented and six “well-equipped” holiday apartments were set up. In 2017 the property was sold by Max Aicher to the Freilassing group of companies, which, in contrast to the private initiative “A Castle for Everyone”, which had planned a mixture of private housing project and opening of the castle as a location for cultural events, also for the renovation and Maintenance of the houses could bear the necessary costs of 2 to 4 million euros.

chapel

While the castle became a modestly furnished retirement home for Christalnigg, he had the former St. Mary's Chapel lavishly furnished so that it is still considered an “art-historical gem” today. It is run by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as an "attached rococo building with a gable roof and turret with onion hood ". The frescoes on the outside and the rococo furnishings inside the chapel are by the Salzburg painter and plasterer Benedikt Zöpf . In 1800 the chapel was expanded to include the adjoining dining room. In 1913 it was profaned .

literature

  • Manfred Feulner : Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger , Berchtesgaden 1986 ISBN 3-925647-00-7 , p. 182.
  • A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Berchtesgadener Anzeiger publishing house and Karl M. Lipp publishing house, Munich 1973. P. 8, 99.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Manfred Feulner : Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 182
  2. ↑ a b c d A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . P. 99.
  3. ↑ a b c d List of monuments for Berchtesgaden (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-1-72-116-46
  4. ↑ a b c First summer seat for the prince provost, then teacher's home , short report from March 10, 2020 in Berchtesgadener Anzeiger , online at berchtesgadener-anzeiger.de
  5. ↑ A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . P. 8.
  6. ↑ a b Ulli Kastner: A castle to kiss awake , report from November 30, 2016 in Berchtesgadener Anzeiger, online at berchtesgadener-anzeiger.de
  7. ↑ Patrick Vietze: A castle to kiss awake , report of April 7, 2017 in the Berchtesgadener Anzeiger, online at berchtesgadener-anzeiger.de
  8. ↑ Schloss Fürstenstein Berchtesgaden , report in Stiftungsleben - employee magazine of the Max Aicher Foundation from 2018, PDF file, p. 36 of 44 pages, online at lech-stahlwerke.de

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Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '54.7 "  N , 12 ° 59' 50.5"  E