Lautrach Castle

Lautrach Castle

Lautrach Castle , also New Castle Lautrach , is a castle in Lautrach in the Swabian district of Unterallgäu , which is now used as a conference venue.

history

One of the oldest knight seats in Swabia was located in Lautrach . The medieval castle stable Altenlauternach had been the seat of Heinrich von Lauternach since 1164. The local noble family of Lauternach was followed in 1417 by the Lords of Landau. During the Thirty Years' War the place and the castle were burned down, but rebuilt by the Lords of Muggenthal. The castle finally came to the Kempten prince monastery in 1645 . In 1780 most of the (old) castle burned down again.

From 1781 to 1783, the then Prince Abbot of Kempten, Honorius Roth von Schreckenstein , had the new Lautrach Castle built as a provost and hunting lodge. In 1803, after secularization, the Electorate of Bavaria became the new owner of the two palaces, who auctioned the New Palace in 1805 to the French Count Jean-Luis Firmas-Perier. The New Palace owes the small theater hall to him with the valuable hand-printed picture wallpapers from the wallpaper manufacturer Dufour, Paris. In 1814 Firmas-Perier also bought the little old castle. After Firmas-Perier's death, Baron von Speth bought the building in 1831. In 1838 they went to the Catholic priest Josef Deybach , who bought them with the support of Baron Vequel in Kronburg . Deybach and his sister opened an educational institution for higher daughters. A boys' institute was also opened in 1840. For this purpose, Deybach had a new institute building built on the ruins of the old castle. The two institutions became known far beyond the country's borders. Since 1869 the new castle was owned by the Zeil rulers . In 1889 the Wagner establishments in Dillingen (today the Regens-Wagner Foundation ) acquired Deybach's remaining legacy. They are still in the possession of the institute building on the site of the old castle.

From 1921 Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe , polar researcher and inventor of the gyro compass , was the owner of the New Castle. He had it renovated and then made it available as a rest home for professors and students. Here he held so-called "faculty meetings" with scientists he had selected, such as Karl von Frisch , Wilhelm Wien , Richard Willstätter , Albrecht Kossel , Arnold Sommerfeld and Albert Einstein . He wrote to Albert Einstein in a letter:

“(...) Do you already know that I bought a dreamy old castle for the university here in the immediate vicinity of your home, which should primarily be open to all friends from the philosophical faculty. You shouldn't be missing there. We want to go there for the first time next summer, possibly in August, if my work permits. The area is as untraveled by Berliners as it is only conceivable in Bavaria. The castle and grounds are in Lautrach near Memmingen. (...) "

Anschütz-Kaempfe bequeathed the New Palace in 1931 to the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , which sold it to the Wagner Institute in Dillingen in 1966. In 1989 Lautrach Castle was converted into a management center and conference hotel and officially opened in 1993 as the “Lautrach Castle Management Center”. Today it is one of the leading training institutes with its own four-star conference hotel in Germany. The two shareholders are the Chamber of Commerce Swabia and the Kolping Educational Institute in the Diocese of Augsburg .

Building description

There are no remains of the old castle.

The New Palace is a three-storey, elongated building with a mansard hipped roof and central projections with tail gables. The castle is surrounded by a courtyard garden.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Milestones in the history of Lautrach Castle. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed in May 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ List of monuments for Lautrach (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

Web links

Commons : Lautrach Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Management Center Schloss Lautrach GmbH. At: www.schloss-lautrach.de, accessed on May 6, 2016.
• The history of the old and new castle in Lautrach. From: regens-wagner-lautrach.de, accessed on May 6, 2016.

Coordinates: 47 ° 53 ′ 48.4 "  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 59"  E