Kempfenhausen Castle

Kempfenhausen Castle on a copper engraving by Michael Wening (around 1700)

Today's view

The castle in Kempfenhausen , a district of the municipality of Berg in the Upper Bavarian district of Starnberg , is a protected architectural monument .

history

Kempfenhausen Castle was built for Arsatius Barth from 1515 to 1520. The Schauß family had owned the castle since 1850. Emil (1833–1900), his sister Charlotte (* 1830) and his brother Friedrich von Schauß (1832–1893) sold it in 1892 to the economist August Sartorius von Waltershausen .

description

The castle consists of a group of several buildings with a surrounding garden. The former mansion is a three-storey gable roof building with a risalit-like porch to the north. The building was constructed for Arsatius Barth from 1515 to 1520. Various modifications were made later.

The garden, with a former ornamental garden in the west and a former kitchen garden with orchards and terracing in the east, was fenced in before 1700. The driveway with entrance roundabout in the north as the remainder of a former park was laid out from 1909 under Count Bylandt .

Todays use

The Kempfenhausen Castle is an event house of the Department for Health and Environment of the City of Munich .

literature

Gerhard Schober: District of Starnberg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.21 ). 2nd Edition. Munich / Zurich 1991, p. 68-72 .
Ernst Götz u. a. (Editor): Georg Dehio (founder): Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bavaria IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich and Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , p. 522.