Girsberg Castle

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Girsberg Castle in Emmishofen

Girsberg Castle or Mittel-Girsberg is located in Emmishofen , a formerly independent municipality, part of Kreuzlingen since 1928 .

history

15th to 17th centuries

When, after 1363, a little above Alt-Girsberg, today's Brunegg Castle , another estate was built, it was called Ober-Gyrsberg. This later led to confusion of names when an even higher "Ober-Girsberg", today's Ebersberg Castle , appeared.

The castle, known today as Girsberg, was first mentioned in a document in 1473. At that time it belonged to Konrad Kupfermann. Then it went to Peter Breunli, then to Hans Lewenberg zu Altiken. Ulrich von Wengy, a doctor in Constance, bought it in 1518. In 1539 it was bought by the Constance citizen Nicolaus de Gall. He came from the Comask merchant family de Galis de Cermenate and is also an ancestor of the Hessian von Gall family . A record of the Diet of Baden of August 26, 1539 provides information about the acquisition of the property and Nicolaus de Gall's request to the lower jurisdiction .

Girsberg later went to Junker Hans Nythart, whose widow sold it to Georg von Knöringen . His widow in turn left the property to the Kreuzlingen monastery , which soon afterwards built a chapel . In 1567 the monastery was sold to Canon Sebastian von Herbstheim, who had owned the old Girsberg since 1565. He was in 1582 by the Confederates to Central Girsberg patio explained.

The Mayer brothers from Stein am Rhein took over from Herbstheim's heirs in 1588 and sold the castle in 1594 for 10,500 guilders to the canon Paul Albert , who later became the bishop of Breslau . After his death the estate passed into the possession of the diocese of Breslau, which gave it to Emperor Rudolf II . This authorized the Bishop of Constance Johann Georg and Maximilian Schenk von Staufenberg, city governor in Constance, to sell the castle. The imperial abbey Petershausen in Constance bought it at auction . After fifty years, the monastery ran into financial difficulties and sold Girsberg to Junker Johann Anton Würz von Rudenz. In 1679 his heirs sold the castle to the Zwiefalten monastery for 15,500 guilders .

Zwiefalten Monastery, owner from 1679 to 1803

The condition of Girsberg Castle at that time is documented in the contract. The seat of jurisdiction in Mittel-Gyrsberg comprised the “well-built” two dwellings valued at 2,000 guilders, including furniture, with four rooms, three kitchens, a writing room, pantries, eight chambers, three vaulted and one non-vaulted cellars, including the large ones almost new storage barrels, a torkel with all accessories, distant barn, double stables, well-known "Schüttinen" and a "beautiful, free-standing, medium-sized church". All of this summarized in a wall. " Outside stood the Bakehouse and Schopf. The property also included the 10 Jucharten vines, 50 mowing meadows, 38 Jucharten arable fields, 5 Jucharten forest, half an Emmishofer Schuppis, valued at 12,250 guilders . The manor had all the rights and justice like other rulers and courts in Thurgau.

In 1790 the monastery demolished the old castle, built a new one and made it a governorship . In the chapel to the east of the castle, which was demolished around 1840, there was a bell with the inscription: A fulgure, grandine et mala tempestate libera nos Domine and S. Blasi, ora pro nobis . In addition, the inscription "I flowed through celebration and heat, Leonhard Rosenlächer poured me in Constanz in 1762 in honor of God". This bell is now in the castle's turret today.

19th and 20th centuries

In the course of secularization , the castle fell to the House of Württemberg in 1803 as compensation for the loss of the county of Montbéliard . Friedrich II. , Later the first king of Württemberg, had the palace auctioned in 1803. The Geneva manufacturer and banker Jacques Louis Macaire de L'Or , who had settled in Constance , bought it for 26,000 guilders and leased it the following year to Salomon Högger in Bischofszell . Later son David Macaire inherited the castle. One of his daughters, Amélie (1816–1852), married Count Friedrich von Zeppelin (1807–1886), son of the Württemberg Minister Ferdinand Ludwig Graf von Zeppelin (1771–1829). The couple received the Girsberg in 1840 as a Christmas present and took up residence there with their children Eugenia, Eberhard and their first-born son Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (1838–1917).

Ferdinand, the famous airship driver, was the sole owner of Girsberg from 1870 and he spent a lot of time on his estate, mainly in the summer months. Especially his seventieth birthday on July 8, 1908, when almost the whole village marched with a torchlight procession to the Girsberg in the evening and fireworks from the village's own fireworks factory Alois Müller was set off, remained in the memory of the Emmishofers for a long time. After Ferdinand von Zeppelin's death, his daughter Helene (Hella) Countess von Brandenstein-Zeppelin (1879–1967) inherited the Girsberg. In 1960 she gave it to her daughter Alexandra (Alexa) Baroness von Koenig-Warthausen (* 1911, sister-in-law of Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen ), who lived in the castle until her death in 1997. Already in 1983 she had sold the property to the befriended couple Kurt and Jolanda Schmid-Andrist on condition of a lifelong right of residence. Between 1985 and 1987 they had various renovation measures carried out at Girsberg Castle and, in 2002–2003, converted the farm barn, which was no longer used for agriculture, into a “culture barn”. Since then it has housed a doll museum and a memorial room for Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Girsberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Peter Erni / Alfons Raimann: "Die Stadt Kreuzlingen", Volume 7 from the series "Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Thurgau", Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte GSK (Ed.), Bern 2009, pp. 265–272., ISBN 978-3- 906131-90-0
  • Hermann Strauss: Gyrsberg Castle. In: Contributions to the local history of Kreuzlingen. Book IX. Kreuzlingen 1955. pp. 26-45.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Kindler von Knobloch, Oberbadisches Gender Book
  2. ↑ After Peter Erni and Alfons Raimann: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Thurgau . Volume VII: The Kreuzlingen District I - The City of Kreuzlingen . ISBN 978-3-906131-90-0 , p. 266 the Girsberg estate was sold by the diocese of Breslau to Emperor Rudolf II.

Coordinates: 47 ° 38 ′ 44 "  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 0"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred twenty-eight thousand five hundred and eighty-five  /  278 613