Holzgünz Castle

Holzgünz Castle

Holzgünz Castle is a former castle of the Memminger Kreuzherren in Holzgünz in the Swabian district of Unterallgäu .

history

Holzgünz has belonged to the Free Imperial City of Memmingen since the Middle Ages and to the Kreuzherren of the Memmingen Upper Hospital since 1444 . Today's castle with church was built as the summer residence of the hospital master of the Kreuzherren, Balthasar Mayer, in 1586. After the secularization in 1803, the castle was sold by the Bavarian state to the barons von Spitzel in 1809. It changed hands more often and served u. a. as a parsonage, brewery, school and hospital. During the First World War there was a prison camp in the castle. Today the south and east wings accommodate apartments, the west wing a restaurant with a former brewery, which dates back to 1680.

Building description

Four-wing system with three-storey east wing with hipped gable roof, bay window over profiled console, blind arch and tower with tent roof, two-story south wing with gable roof, blind arch and gate passage framed by pilasters and segmented gables. The western part is separated as a hipped roof building. Two-storey west wing with hipped roof, northern portico with arched arcades and tent roof extension. The associated castle church of St. Simon and Judas Thaddäus is a hall church and forms the north wing of the complex. It was rebuilt in 1586.

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of Holzgünz. At www.holzguenz.de, accessed on May 7, 2016
2. ↑ Bernd-Peter Schaul: Swabia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52398-8 .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 20.1 ″  N , 10 ° 15 ′ 35.5 ″  E