Marktoberdorf Castle

The prince-bishop's castle Marktoberdorf, behind it the spire of the parish church

Marktoberdorf Castle is a former prince-bishop's castle in Marktoberdorf in the Bavarian district of Ostallgäu . It served the prince-bishops of Augsburg as a hunting lodge and summer residence .

Geographical location

The castle is located on the eastern outskirts of Marktoberdorf in the immediate vicinity of the baroque parish church of St. Martin . From here the two-kilometer-long Kurfürstenallee, a lime tree avenue from the 18th century, leads southeast to a vantage point outside the city. In the garden of the castle there is an underground concert hall of the Bavarian Music Academy in Marktoberdorf.

history

Kurfürstenallee

According to documentary records, there was a castle in Oberdorf as early as 1424. Between 1505 and 1517, Prince-Bishop Heinrich von Lichtenau had a new late Gothic building carried out. It was greatly expanded in 1598 and 1599. This castle existed until 1722, then it was demolished and replaced by today's baroque castle by Prince-Bishop Alexander Sigismund , Count Palatine of the Rhine . The builder was Johann Georg Fischer from Oberdorf im Allgäu . As the last prince-bishop of Augsburg, Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony died here in 1812 , who was also the last elector of Trier.

After secularization , the Bavarian state took over the manor house and the royal district court and the Oberdorf rent office moved here in 1819. The measuring authority followed in 1864 - today's land surveying office. In 1876 the preparatory school moved into the castle and stayed there until 1923. Until 1967 the castle was the seat of the district administration's office. In 1967 there was a fire in the castle and the west and south wings were then empty until the building was renovated in 1984.

The castle has been the seat of the Bavarian Music Academy in Marktoberdorf since 1984 and the seat of the Marktoberdorf land surveying office since 1996.

Web links

Aerial view of the castle and parish church

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

• Brochure on the history of the castle and the music academy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former Prince-Bishop's Castle in Marktoberdorf ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. , Kulturbüro Ostallgäu 
2. ↑ ^{a b} History of Marktoberdorf Castle , Bavarian Music Academy Marktoberdorf, accessed on March 17, 2013

Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 47.1 ″  N , 10 ° 37 ′ 19.2 ″  E