Haimhausen Castle

View from the west

Organ in the castle chapel

The Haimhausen Castle stands in the town of Haimhausen in the district of Dachau . The complex was first mentioned as castrum in 1281.

history

The castle was rebuilt after a fire in the Thirty Years War in 1660 and has been constantly expanded since then. Under Imperial Count Karl Ferdinand Maria von und zu Haimhausen, a major renovation was carried out from 1743 to 1749 by François de Cuvilliés the Elder . Since then, the late Baroque Salvator Mundi palace chapel with stucco work and altars by the Flemish artist Egid Verhelst and his sons as well as the ceiling painting by Johann Georg Bergmüller , which was made in 1750 , has been a special gem within the palace .

At the end of the 18th century, the property and castle passed to the Counts of Butler-Clonebough (later Butler-Haimhausen) through female inheritance. Viktorine von Butler-Haimhausen founded a poor girl's house here in 1861, but moved it to Schönbrunn Palace in 1863 . The last male heir from her line was childless and shortly before his death in 1892 sold the property to the - later ennobled - local industrialist family Haniel . Eduard James Haniel had the old Rococo castle expertly renovated and converted into an English country house by the architect of Prince Thurn und Taxis , Max Schultze . In 1997 the Bavarian International School bought the castle.

Haimhausen Castle is not open to the public, but Protestant services are held regularly in the castle chapel.

organ

The organ of the castle chapel was built in 1736 as an organ positive by the organ builder Quirin Weber (Dachau) and, with the exception of one register, is original. Rocaille carvings were added to the organ prospectus in 1750. The purely mechanical instrument has 8 manual registers (covered 8 ′, gamba 8 ′, principal 4 ′, flute 4 ′, octave 2 ′, quint 1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′, mixture III 1 ′) and a sub bass 16 ′ as pedal register.

literature

Max Frankenburger : On the history of Haimhausen Castle . In: Upper Bavarian Archives for Patriotic History 68, 1931, pp. 25–54.

Web links

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

Castle history (English)
Description of the castle chapel

Remarks

↑ Church services in the castle chapel
↑ Information on the organ
↑ The Jewish art historian Max Frankenburger was the father-in-law of Edgar Haniel von Haimhausen , owner of the castle , through his daughter Hedwig .

48.312977327778 11.545772552778Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '46.7 " N , 11 ° 32' 44.8" E

[1] Church services in the castle chapel

[2] Information on the organ

[3] The Jewish art historian Max Frankenburger was the father-in-law of Edgar Haniel von Haimhausen , owner of the castle , through his daughter Hedwig .