Leutstetten Castle

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Leutstetten Castle

Leutstetten Castle is located in Leutstetten not far from Starnberg on a hill above the Leutstettener Moos . A small, fenced-in park belongs to the listed complex in the Renaissance style . The palace and park are not open to the public.

history

Leutstetten Castle around 1817

Hans Urmiller , member of a Bavarian patrician family, ducal councilor and treasurer, Duke Albrecht V , had the castle built around 1552. For this purpose, stone blocks from the remains of the early medieval Karlsburg not far away were also used. It is not certain whether the building was equipped with the two transverse corner towers from the start. In 1565 Urmiller received the inn in Leutstetten and the bath in Petersbrunn from the Duke . After Urmiller's death around 1572, his property came to his widow Kunigunde, née Rosenbusch von Notzing, who sold it in 1576.

In the following time different owners of the castle and the associated Hofmark are recorded. However, the Hofmark did not include the entire village, which is why there were repeated conflicts with the district court and caretaker at Starnberg.

In 1833 Ludwig Prince von Oettingen-Wallerstein came into possession of the castle. He handed it over to his son-in-law Hugo Graf Waldbott von Bassenheim in 1850 . Baron von Walden bought it in 1864, who sold it to Prince Ludwig of Bavaria in 1875, later King Ludwig III. At that time, the castle owned 460 hectares of land with a park, parts of the Leutstettener Moos with the adjoining Wildmoos peat and the Schwaige farm east of Leutstetten. Since then, it has been a favorite facility of the Wittelsbach family , where important members of the family were born and died. This includes Franz Maria Luitpold Prince of Bavaria , who was born there on October 10, 1875 and died there in 1957.

Ludwig III. expanded the agriculture belonging to the castle into a model estate . By 1898 he had a land consolidation carried out in order to summarize the previous free float. He acquired additional land, such as the lower mill in the Würmtal in 1890, the Rieden estate in 1904 and the Petersbrunn estate and Bad Petersbrunn in 1909. In 1915 he fetched eight mares from the manor of the Nádasdy Castle in Sárvár (Hungary) and set up a horse breeding business, from which today's Isarland Stud emerged .

After Ludwig III. had died in 1921, Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria came into his inheritance in Leutstetten. From there he maintained a variety of contacts with personalities of his time. From 1936 to 1938 he had the palace extended sideways according to plans by Carl Sattler . At the beginning of the Second World War , the National Socialists drove him into exile at Nádasdy Castle . Leutstetten Castle was confiscated and used by the NSDAP functionary Christian Weber , who u. a. responsible for the SS cavalry and was known for enriching himself with confiscated goods and for maintaining a baroque lifestyle. Towards the end of the war, German refugees from the combat area on the Saar were housed in the castle. After the end of the war in 1945, the castle temporarily served as accommodation for people who had become homeless due to the chaos of war. Among them was the sculptor Arno Breker , who had to leave his studios in Wriezen and Jäckelsbruch im Oderbruch because of the approach of the Red Army .

Leutstetten Castle was returned to the Wittelsbach family and remained the property of the family. Rupprecht von Bayern returned from exile in Florence , Ludwig Karl Maria von Bayern escaped from the Red Army and brought the breeding horses from Nádasdy Castle to Leutstetten and the Isarland Stud. He lived in the castle until his death in 2008. After the death of his widow Irmingard , the castle has belonged to the son Luitpold Prince of Bavaria since 2010 .

literature

  • Gerhard Schober: Castles in the Fünfseenland. Bavarian aristocratic residences around Lake Starnberg and Lake Ammersee. Oreos-Verlag, Waakirchen 2005, ISBN 3-923657-83-8 .
  • Leutstetten Castle and Village Information sheet of the City of Starnberg, online version accessed on April 15, 2020

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geodaten.bayern.de
  2. ^ Gerhard Schober: Castles in the Fünfseenland. 2005.
  3. ↑ a b Dietmar Hundt, Elisabeth Ettelt: Castles and palaces in the Bavarian Oberland (= Small Pannonia series. 120). Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1984, ISBN 3-7897-0120-3 , p. 24.
  4. ↑ Gerhard Ongyerth: cultural landscape Würmtal. Model experiment "Landscape Museum" to record and preserve historical cultural landscape elements in the upper Würmtal (= workbooks of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. 74). Lipp, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-87490-639-6 , p. 94.
  5. ↑ sueddeutsche.de; On the death of Ludwig von Bayern , May 17, 2010

Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 42.8 ″  N , 11 ° 22 ′ 7.6 ″  E