Hacklberg Castle

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Hacklberg Castle

Hacklberg Castle is a castle in the independent city of Passau .

location

Hacklberg Castle is located in the Hacklberg district on the left bank of the Danube about a hundred meters southwest of the Hacklberg brewery .

history

In 1307 a small episcopal fiefdom and bathing room were built here. In 1358 the building already had two towers and was the scene of a large tournament with no fewer than 160 knights taking part. The occasion was the celebration of the marriage of Meinhard III in Passau . with a daughter of Duke Albrecht II of Austria.

The plans for further expansion met with resistance from Passau's citizens. In 1410 they agreed with Bishop Georg von Hohenlohe that Hacklberg should not receive any fortifications and should remain a pure summer palace.

Bishop Wolfgang von Salm had it transformed by Bernardino into his "tusculum" in 1544, a villa surrounded by gardens and colonnades. In 1675, Prince-Bishop Sebastian von Pötting moved the Hochfürstliche Bräuhaus here and connected it with the summer rooms.

Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp von Lamberg had the complex expanded monumentally in almost twenty years of construction, so that Hacklberg Castle was now one of the most important summer castles in southern Germany. In the vicinity of the main building orangery , fig, plum and pineapple house, cavaliers and servants' wings, fountains and arbor wings are grouped together. The foxhole adjoining to the north was characterized by a four-way staggered water terrace parterre with winged pavilions.

Prince-Bishop Joseph Franz Anton von Auersperg had the French gardens converted into English after 1786. In 1796 his successor Thomas Johann von Thun und Hohenstein turned it into a large beer storage cellar. After secularization , the Bavarian administration only showed interest in the brewery, from which the Hacklberg brewery emerged. The castle tracts and gardens deteriorated. In 1897 the castle and the brewery were acquired for the Bishop of Passau . In 1913 the brewery moved to a new building in the castle park in Fuchsloch. In April 1945 parts of the former brewery were destroyed by a bomb attack, the ruins have been partially preserved. On May 26, 2003, the extensive restoration work on the still-preserved ballroom was completed.

description

The existing building dates back to between 1690 and 1700. The ballroom of the main building, dated 1692, was designed by the stucco plasterer Giovanni Battista Carlone and the painter Giovanni Carlone . It contains a lavish stucco decoration with coat of arms and signature of the builder Johann Philipp von Lamberg, shell niches with figures of the seasons and the elements as well as a painted heaven of gods in the middle of the likewise painted continents. Of the gardens from that time, only a grotto rear wall has been preserved. The walling and the classicistic pavilion date from the late 18th century.

literature

Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 34.6 "  N , 13 ° 26 ′ 36.7"  E