Inching Castle

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Inching Castle

Inching Castle is a small baroque castle in Inching in Upper Bavaria . It is located on the Altmühl , 100 kilometers north of Munich, built at the beginning of the 18th century as the summer residence of the Eichstätt canons and auxiliary bishops . The small castle still forms a unique historical ensemble on the Altmühl with the Martinskirche and the outbuildings .

description

The castle in its present form was 1710-1720 by from Grisons originating Eichstätter Hofbaumeistern Jakob Engel (1632-1714) and Gabriel de Gabrieli created (1671-1747). From the original house, which was probably built in the 11th or 12th century, there are still some remains on the ground floor of the part facing the street. Jakob Engel erected a square building facing the Altmühl around 1710 with a corner bay extending from the floor and the flat roof of a Jura house .

Gabriel de Gabrieli replaced a large part of the top floor with a baroque hall with a bay window and side cabinets, thus creating the unique design. Only the four corner surfaces remained of the original roof; they contain three chambers and the stairwell.

"The three-story castle with a kind of garden makes a pretty front to the Altmühl" can be read as early as 1801 in the Geographical Lexicon of Franconia.

The stucco ceiling in the semicircular bay window of the Gabrieli Hall is adorned with the coat of arms of the client Ignatz von Pfürdt. Noteworthy and described by art historians as unique are the free-hanging stucco festoons with roses that visually connect the hall and bay window. The two side cabinets with flat dome and skylight show acantus tendrils and ribbon work around 1715.

The salon in the southeast corner of the first floor contains stucco ceilings from around 1710. The walls are covered with canvas wallpaper, which shows a latticework of ornaments - so-called rocailles - made of shells and plant tendrils on a light background. It is still in its original condition and probably comes from the same time as the cast iron stove from Obereichstätt (cast in 1805). The salon has been furnished with original Biedermeier furniture since the middle of the 20th century .

The rustic, former manager's apartment on the ground floor is now used as a holiday apartment. From the above already mentioned "like garden" with a preserved small Rococo - Pavilion perform a few steps down the Altmühl.

history

Inching - still a small village with around 100 inhabitants in the Altmühltal - was mentioned in a document as early as 1055. At that time, Emperor Heinrich III. the Eichstätter Church the viticulture right between Rebdorf and Inching. A noble Adalbert von Inchingen was named in 1166.

As early as 1260, the then Bishop of Eichstätt, Engelhard von Tollingen , transferred the church of Inching to the Eichstätter cathedral chapter , which ruled the village and parish until the secularization in 1806.

Panorama inching

As the owner of the castle estate, cathedral dean Rudolf Dietrich Freiherr von Freyberg sold his “Fischgut zu Inching with gardens, meadows, fields and fishing waters ” to the Eichstätter canon Freiherr Gottfried Ignatz von Pfürdt in 1714. Its magnificent epitaph can be admired in the cloister of the Eichstätter cathedral . There are tombs of other spiritual owners there. Later owners are u. a. the cathedral provost Franz Heinrich Freiherr von Kageneck , the canon Heinrich Benedikt von Andlau and as the last princely owner before the secularization canon Maria Casemir Graf Schenk von Castell. Count Schenk von Castell's epitaph hangs in the Eichstätter cemetery chapel.

After that, the castle property had several quickly changing owners, individual buildings and areas were sold separately, and the condition of the building deteriorated.

In 1919, the preservationist, architect, painter and photographer Heinrich Ullmann acquired the property. He made a particular contribution to the research, documentation and preservation of the typical Altmühl Jura houses and left an extensive work behind. Historical photographs and drawings are published in the illustrated book "Im Altmühltal". Today his great-grandson and his wife run a holiday apartment on the ground floor.

literature

  • Karl Zecherle (editor): Castles and palaces . Eichstätt district in the Altmühltal nature park. Ed .: District of Eichstätt. 2nd unchanged edition. Hercynia-Verlag, Kipfenberg 1987, DNB  944206697 , p. 26-27 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 54 '  N , 11 ° 16'  E