Hofen Castle
| Hofen Castle | ||
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 Schlosshofen exterior view with extension 2017 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Neu-Hofen | |
| Creation time : | 16th Century | |
| Place: | Lochau | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 32 '9.6 " N , 9 ° 45' 28.1" E | |
| Height: | 448 m above sea level A. | |
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Schloss Hofen (or Neu-Hofen) is a castle-like Renaissance residence from the 16th century near Lochau on the shores of Lake Constance .
history
prehistory
The court or tower to Hofen had been the seat of the Counts of Montfort since 1218 and at the same time the seat of the Burgmanns of Lochau Castle (Alt-Hofen) above Hofen and remained in Montfort until 1451 .
Alt-Hofen
In 1452 Alt-Hofen Castle was destroyed by invading troops from the Swabian League of Towns and in 1456 it went to Jos Mündelin as an Austrian fief . Alt-Hofen still exists today as a ruin on a wooded knoll north-east of the village of Lochau above Schloss Hofen.
15th and 16th centuries, Lords of Raitenau
From 1467 to 1658 the lords or imperial lords and counts of Raitenau (Reitnau) were in Lochau.
Hans Gaudenz von Raitenau received the "Burg Hofen" in 1562 and left the "Schloss Hofen" (Neu-Hofen) located between Lochau and Eichenberg at this point in 1584/85, following on from what was probably built before 1496 by Hans Werner II. St. Oswald chapel (former house chapel, later Holy Cross) built by Raitenau.
Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau (1559-1617) was born in 1559 as the son of the Imperial Colonel Hans Werner von Raitenau and Helena von Hohenems at Hofen Palace - he was later Archbishop of Salzburg (1587-1612).
17th and 18th centuries
The building was completed around 1616 by Hans Werner IV. Von Raitenau.
After a siege of Lindau was successfully repulsed during the Thirty Years' War , the Swedish field marshal Karl Gustav Wrangel captured Hofen Palace in 1646 and set up his headquarters here on January 3, 1647.
In 1659 the castle passed to the Lords of Königsegg-Rothenfels , in 1680 to the Barons of Stotzingen and in 1733 to Franz Joseph Maria von Debern .
Under Joseph Benedikt von Clavell and his descendants (1757–1848), the building was adapted as a brewery.
19th and 20th centuries, eventful history
Since the middle of the 19th century there has been a rapidly changing succession of first noble and from 1898 bourgeois owners ( allodification in 1875).
During the First World War , the palace building served as a reserve hospital, then as a rest home for soldiers, in which courses for disabled people were also held.
The order of St. Vincent von Paul in Zams acquired the castle in 1908 and ran a home for mentally handicapped children in it. Even after it was bought by the state of Vorarlberg in 1929 and made available to the children's rescue organization for the purpose of setting up an educational institution for girls, this was still run by the Sisters of Mercy before the girls were moved to another home in 1936. The sisters had to leave the castle in 1940.
During the Second World War , the castle was used as a military hospital and office for the German Wehrmacht .
In 1951 Schloss Hofen was sold by the state to the Chamber of Commerce , which opened a vocational school for the hospitality industry with an attached boarding school in 1952.
In 1972 the state of Vorarlberg bought it again, which, after extensive general renovation and adaptation, opened a state education center on November 28, 1981.
Todays use
In 1991 the castle was spun off into a non-profit company and the training center has existed since then as a “center for science, training and further education”.
architecture
After the Hohenems Palace, Hofen Palace is the second important Renaissance building in Vorarlberg. The difference between these two buildings is already clear from the names "Schloss" (Hofen) and "Palast" (Hohenems).
The topographical structure of the unobtrusive palace structure can be seen as the overall picture of the medieval architecture of Vorarlberg.
The three-storey residential wing has the shape of two butt-angled wings. After extensive renovations and restorations since 1951, only the outer walls of the residential wing on the west side of the farm building remain. As part of a general renovation that was completed in 2016, two rear extensions from 1908 were removed and replaced by two new, free-standing access towers.
A coat of arms stone of the Raitenau is visible above the outer entrance - bez. 1585.
Schlosshofen exterior view 2017 front towers
Schlosshofen exterior view 2017 through the lower archway
Schlosshofen exterior view 2017 Raitenauerhaus inner courtyard
Schlosshofen exterior view 2017 rear side entrance tower
Schlosshofen exterior view 2017 from the interior parking lot
Schlosshofen exterior view 2017 rear side of the tower
literature
- Alois Niederstätter : The Vorarlberg castles . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2017, ISBN 978-3-7030-0953-2 , pp. 127–129.
Web links
- Science and further education - Schloss Hofen - FH Vorarlberg
- Entry via Schloss Hofen to Burgen-Austria
swell
- ^ Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau
- ↑ Family tree of the Raitenau family
- ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau, published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p 59th
- ↑ Michaela Ralser, Anneliese Bechter, Flavia Guerrini, Carmen Sulzenbacher: History of the Tyrolean and Vorarlberg educational homes and welfare education regimes of the 2nd Republic - a preliminary study . Ed .: Institute for Educational Science on behalf of the states of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Innsbruck 2012, p. 41 ( PDF ).
- ↑ The work is going well: Hofen Palace becomes a state-of-the-art education center. In: vol.at. Retrieved April 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Dehio-Handbuch, Vorarlberg; ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 .