Kaltenberg Castle

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Kaltenberg Castle

The Schloss Kaltenberg in the same village Kaltenberg within the community Geltendorf was built in 1292 and is now owned by Prince Luitpold of Bavaria , the great-grandson of the last Bavarian King Ludwig III.

Kaltenberg Castle, which is also the venue for the Kaltenberg Knight Tournament , is located near Lake Ammersee in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech, not far from the state capital Munich (approx. 55 km) and the large district town of Landsberg am Lech (approx. 19 km).

history

The castle was built in 1292 by Rudolf I , Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine. In 1296 it was destroyed in a family feud between the Hegnenbergers. Around 1300 it was owned by the Rohrbacher zu Hegnenberg family. It was rebuilt around 1425 by the Augsburg patrician Peter Rehlinger.

From 1469 to 1612 it was owned by Hundt zu Lautterbach and Sulzemoos. In 1514 the Bavarian historian and statesman Wiguläus Hundt was born in the castle. In 1612 it was taken over by the Landsberg Jesuits . In 1633 the castle was destroyed by the Swedes in the Thirty Years War . In 1781 the Order of Malta took over the castle.

In 1808 Kaltenberg Castle became state property. In the years 1822–1845 the Counts of Hegnenberg-Dux were the lords of the castle, but lived there and only used the brickworks. From 1841 to 1854 the royal engineer-geographer Johann Adolph Sommer , brother-in-law of the painter Lorenzo Quaglio , redesigned the castle in the Gothic style. The striking southwest tower with the gate building got its present shape. Between 1854 and 1876 the castle had different owners: Nikolaus Hofmann, Paul Radlmayr, Anton Heilmair, Georg Heilmair. From 1876 to 1916, Willibald's family owned Kaltenberg Castle. Sigmund von Willibald built the Kaltenberg Castle Brewery in 1876.

From 1916 to 1939 in the possession of the Schülein family, Joseph Schülein (1854–1938) - last supported by his son Fritz - ran a brewery and castle estate with great success, which also includes peat cutting and sheep farming in the Emminger Moos. In February 1939 Fritz Schülein was expropriated as part of the Aryanization and interned in Dachau on November 10, 1938. Gut Kaltenberg was subordinated to the government of Upper Bavaria. In 1948 the restitution to Fritz Schülein took place after lengthy negotiations with the compensation authorities. In 1954, Kaltenberg Castle was sold to the Wittelsbach family .

Today the castle is the residence of Luitpold Prince of Bavaria and his family. But it also serves as an event room and houses two restaurants .

Building description

The four-wing complex goes back largely to the renovation of the 19th century, which was commissioned from 1841 by the then owner Johann Adolph Sommer. The trenches have been preserved from the medieval complex. The core of the west wing goes back to the Landsberg Jesuits (17th century).

In addition to the gate construction, the neo-Gothic " bergfried " with its small corner turrets catches the eye. The frescoes with motifs from the " Codex Manesse " were created in connection with the annual jousting games and are still partially unfinished.

In front of the main castle is the large manor district, whose simple residential and commercial buildings were also mostly built in the 19th century. The area around the main castle is densely forested. A modern bridge allows access over the neck ditch .

King Ludwig Castle Brewery

Kaltenberg Castle has housed part of the brewing facilities of the King Ludwig Castle Brewery since 1876 . 100,000 hectoliters of beer are brewed here every year. Another (larger) brewery is Fürstenfeldbruck, 20 km away .

Events

Kaltenberg knight tournament

In 1979 Luitpold Prince of Bavaria organized the first knight tournament at Kaltenberg Castle. The Kaltenberg knight tournaments on the castle grounds are attended by up to over one hundred thousand people annually on nine event days and have made the small country castle known nationwide. The main event takes place in a tournament arena below the castle, which was expanded again in 2006.

Pulse Open Air

Since 2016, the three-day rock festival Puls Open Air with five stages has been taking place on the extensive grounds of the castle every year since 2016 , closely linked to the youth channel PULS of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation.

literature

  • Working group local history Kaltenberg (ed.): Kaltenberg with Jedelstetten. Castle - Church - Parish - Associations. St. Ottilien 2012
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments : Bavaria. Volume 4: Ernst Götz: Munich and Upper Bavaria. 3rd updated edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2006, ISBN 3-422-03115-4 .
  • Lilian Harlander: The Kaltenberg Castle Brewery. In: Lilian Harlander, Bernhard Purin (Hrsg.): Beer is the wine of this country. Jewish brewing stories. Volk Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86222-211-7 , pp. 180-189.
  • Werner Meyer: Castles in Upper Bavaria. A manual. Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , pp. 139-141.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fascination Middle Ages, Augsburger Allgemeine from. May 9, 2006. Retrieved July 23, 2017 .
  2. ↑ PULS Open Air 2017 , BR Fernsehen July 28, 2017, 59 min., Accessed August 1, 2017

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 55 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 40 ″  E