Holdereggen Castle

Hermann Näher (around 1890)

Architect Georg von Hauberrisser (around 1890)

Holdereggen Castle is a stately mansion with a park in the Lindau district of Aeschach .

architecture

The Castle in the neo-Renaissance style with English Norman character was in the years 1887 to 1890 according to plans of the German-Austrian architect Georg von Hauberrisser from Munich for the entrepreneur Hermann Closer built. It is a two-storey building made of red sandstone from a quarry near Landstuhl. It has two towers, bay windows and a terrace with an outside staircase .

history

The area of today's castle was first mentioned in 1497 under the name "Holderegk".

Hermann Näher (1838–1908), born in Aeschach, who had become wealthy on Sumatra through tobacco and aromatic plant cultivation as well as ivory and precious wood exports , returned to his homeland in 1879. In 1881 he married Louise von Gonzenbach and bought the Holdereggen site in order to have a castle-like villa built on it. The Villa Diehl was previously on the site .

Hermann Näher, meanwhile awarded honorary citizenship of Lindau on May 18, 1902 because of his generosity towards the general public, could not stay with his wife in the castle for long, because he got into economic difficulties through unfair machinations of business partners Sensational bankruptcy resulted. The castle became part of the bankruptcy estate, Näher died during the proceedings in 1908 and in May 1910 Privy Councilor Adolph Brougier (1844–1934) became the new owner. Brougier was a co-owner of Franz Kathreiner's successor and Kathreiner's malt coffee. He made the castle available as a hospital during World War I. It later became the property of his son-in-law Ludwig Seisser's family . The royal councilor Ludwig Seisser came from an old Bavarian merchant family and worked for his father-in-law's company. His son, the entrepreneur Erich Seisser, was killed by the National Socialists during the Holocaust. A stumbling block in front of Holdereggen Castle has been a reminder of him since 2012.

The Seisser family sold the castle under pressure from the NSDAP. In 1937, the city of Lindau acquired the villa and the property and had it converted into a boarding school for the Higher Evangelical Daughter School. The name “Jungfernburg” , which is still used in Lindau today, dates from this time . The town's music school has been based in the building since 1951. From 2001 to 2010, there was also a special educational support center, the Holdereggen special school , a branch of the Antonio Huber School in Lindenberg .

The annual children's festival for the Aeschach district takes place in the castle park .

origin of the name

The area is said to have belonged to a Lienhard Holderegk in the 15th century . Derived from this name, the name "Hölderecken" appeared in 1626 and "Holdereggen" in 1653. Another explanation points to elderberry cultivation in the Middle Ages.

Web links

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

www.musikschule-lindau.de

literature

Christoph Hölz, Markus Traub: Wide views. Country houses and gardens on the Bavarian shores of Lake Constance . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-06800-1 .