Harmating Castle

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Harmating Castle
Harmating Castle around 1700

Harmating Castle is located in the hamlet of the same name in the Upper Bavarian municipality of Egling on a moraine hill on the edge of the Isar valley, which at this point widens slightly to the northeast . The oldest parts of the castle are believed to date from the 13th century, and it was given its current Renaissance style in the 16th century. As an architectural monument , it is of particular importance, as it is essentially still in its original state, both inside and out.

history

The medieval noble seat was built as a tower castle in the 13th century by the Lords of Harmating, who were first mentioned around 1140 . Around 1300 it was owned by the Counts of Hohenwaldeck . The other owners were the gentlemen von Egling, the gentlemen von Ross and the Tyrolean family of the Tänzl von Tratzberg . In 1531 at the latest, Harmating came into the possession of the Munich patrician family Barth, whose members Emperor Rudolph II granted noble freedom together with the lower jurisdiction in 1596 . In 1681 they were raised to the rank of baron . The Barth family , who added that of the palace to their name, included the Munich mayor and landscape chancellor Ferdinand Barth, who owned the palace from 1689 to 1705. Hermann von Barth (1845–1876), who became known as an alpinist and explorer and who made outstanding contributions to the exploration of the Allgäu Alps , Wetterstein Mountains and Karwendel , spent his childhood at Harmating Castle.

In 1941 the von Schirnding family came into possession of the castle through inheritance. Today the writer Albert von Schirnding lives there with his family.

The last comprehensive renovation of the castle took place in 2002.

Architecture and equipment

Harmating Castle is a three-storey rectangular building with a striking, steep hipped roof and a chapel attached to the east facade . It received the bay window on the south side and the design of the rooms in the 16th century. Doors, furniture and stoves from the Renaissance have been preserved. The most important rooms in terms of art history are on the first floor. There is a spacious room in the south-east of the building with a field ceiling from the early 19th century, which is decorated with medallions on which the names of all Barths from 1324 to 1758 are attached. Numerous family portraits hang in a room called the Eurasburger Zimmer . The Barth family had a connection to the not far away Eurasburg from around 1700 at the latest when they came into possession of the castle there. In the chancellor's room, named after Ferdinand Barth's office, there are valuable ceiling paintings, which may have come from Melchior Steidl . In the bay window there are frescoes with coats of arms of the Barth and Ligsalz families .

Numerous trophies in the building show that it was once used as a hunting lodge . The inventory also includes over 15,000 books owned by the von Schirnding family.

A late Gothic chapel was replaced in 1630 by the castle chapel consecrated to the Holy Cross . The one- nave building with three yoke groin vaults was renewed around 1708 and changed somewhat in the process.

The castle is not open to the public and cannot be visited.

literature

  • Dietmar Hundt, Elisabeth Ettelt: Castles and palaces in the Bavarian Oberland. Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1984, ISBN 3-7897-0120-3 , pp. 22-23.
  • Hermann Hoffmann (arrangement): Schlossarchiv Harmating. Publishing house Bayerische Heimatforschung, Munich-Pasing 1955.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Harmating  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietmar Hundt, Elisabeth Ettelt: Castles and palaces in the Bavarian Oberland. P. 22.
  2. ↑ List of protected buildings in the municipality ( Memento from January 11, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Klaudius Henke ( Memento from November 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Schloss Harmating ( Memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '17 "  N , 11 ° 32' 29.4"  E