Mattsies Castle

Mattsies Castle
Creation time :	1246
Conservation status:	receive
Place:	Mattsies
Geographical location	48 ° 4 '37.2 "  N , 10 ° 33' 0.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '37.2 "  N , 10 ° 33' 0.3"  E

The Mattsies Castle is located south of Mattsies , a district of Tussenhausen in the district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria . It was originally the seat of the Marshals of Mattsies until the mid-14th century and is now privately owned. The castle is a listed building.

history

The castle was first mentioned in 1246. From around 1270/1280 until the middle of the 14th century, the castle was the seat of the marshals of Mattsies. As a Burgau fiefdom, it was owned by the von Ellerbach family from 1357 . Emperor Friedrich III. gave the order to burn down the castle, which was carried out on January 16, 1456 by Count Oswald von Thierstein. The reason for the destruction was the participation of Hans Burkhard von Ellerbach in the siege of Günz . Two years later, in 1458, the Stein von Ronsberg family bought the estate. Diepold von Stein zu Jettingen, a captain of the Swabian League , had the castle plundered by the farmers under Knopf von Leubas in 1525 and again destroyed by burning down. The founder of the Fugger-Glött family, Christoph Fugger von Kirchberg and Weißenhorn, bought the estate from Marquard von Stein in 1598. The castle remained in his possession until 1679 and then passed to Duke Maximilian Philipp of Bavaria . When Duke Maximilian died in 1705, the Wittelsbach family acquired the castle. The court chamber leased it to Baron von Lafabrique in 1754. Countess Maria Josepha von Toerring-Seefeld owned the castle as a man's fief from 1785 to 1808. In the years that followed, the owners changed very often: in 1810 Electress Leopoldine , in 1835 the Counts Waldbott-Hohenems, in 1854 the Barons von Botzheim , in 1905 Baron Walter von Rougemont. During the 20th century, the former aristocratic residence was owned by the Berg family for decades, and in 1975 it was sold on. The castle is currently privately owned.

The existing building essentially dates from the 16th century and was built after the destruction in 1525. In the middle of the 19th century there were changes that affected the portal and the lavatory on the north side. Further alterations were made in 1905 during the ownership of Baron von Rougemont. During this time, a new staircase was built on the northwest corner and extensions to the southwest corner. The renovations were carried out according to plans by Munich's Hans Schurr . In the course of this construction work it was found that the entire northeast quarter of the castle was originally built as a free tower and was only built into the complex in connection with the construction of the high castle, probably in the 13th century. The wall between this part of the building was more than a meter thick and reached up to the fourth floor. In the lower area it was made of tuff stones and had walled-in niches on the top floor - four on the gable side, six on the long side. This is very difficult to understand because of the renovation and, above all, the installation of the stairwell.

Building description

The main part of the castle dates back to the 16th century. In the middle of the 19th century and in 1905 the castle was modified according to plans by Hans Schurr . Most recently, the castle was extended to the south-west. In the vestibule with groin vault there is a coat of arms of the barons of Rougement. The main building is at the northern end of the hill. It consists of a residential tower with five storeys and turret-like gable attachments on the gable roof. The cultivation in the southwest comes from the Neo-Renaissance . The two upper floors of the extension are equipped with wooden loggias. The southwest corner is bounded by a cylindrical tower with a conical roof . A bay window from the mid-19th century is located on the north side and another polygonal corner bay window on the north-west side. A forecourt is formed on the south side of the castle by the elongated economic building from the 18th century.

literature

• Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 700 .
• Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district - Bavarian art monuments . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Res. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 222-227 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Mattsies  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-204-11 ( Memento of the original dated December 9, 2015 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.