Hopferau Castle

Hopferau Castle is a three-storey gable roof building with a three-storey extension with a hip roof in the neo-Gothic style . It is located in the resort of Hopferau in the Ostallgäu district .

history

The origins of the oldest castle in the Ostallgäu district go back to the year 1468, when the knight Sigmund von Freyberg zu Eisenberg had the building built. The three-story house was the center of a small new rule that was created through the division of inheritance. In 1504 the castle got a chapel. Today it functions as the village church.

The castle was rebuilt from 1830 to 1840. A wing was added to the eastern front and a neo-Gothic facade. The client was Domenico Quaglio . In 1838 the castle came into private ownership for the first time: the sisters Albertine and Pauline von Freyberg-Eisenberg zu Wellendingen sold the building to the postal dispatcher Michael Kolb. Just one year later it went to the Freiherr von Ponickau , whose descendants owned it until 1910.

In the following, the owners changed several times until the area was transferred to the Kultur-Stiftung Füssen eV in 1999 in order to ensure its long-term preservation. In 2011 Bernd Rath bought the castle. Today the castle, which is surrounded by a walled park, houses a restaurant and a conference and event center. The so-called staircase concerts for friends of classical music are now enjoying great popularity, far beyond the Ostallgäu district.

After the Second World War , Konrad Zuse put the Z4 into operation in the flour warehouse . The Zusesaal, a conference room in the castle, still reminds of this incident today.

Web links

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

47.61375 10.633138888889Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 49.5 ″ N , 10 ° 37 ′ 59.3 ″ E