Mauensee Castle
The Mauensee Castle stands on a small island in Mauensee in the field of community Mauensee in the Swiss canton of Lucerne . A narrow bridge leads to the castle , which belongs to the Sigg family.
history
middle Ages
Mauensee Castle was first mentioned in 1184 in the Engelberg monastery register . In 1275, half of the castle and the Mauensee rulership belonged to the Counts of Habsburg and the Barons of Grünenberg . The former castle was destroyed by the Confederates after the Sempach War in 1388. The lake and island passed into the possession of Lucerne in 1455.
In 1605, today's castle was built by Schultheiss Michael Schnyder . In the centuries that followed, ownership changed several times.
Todays use
In 1811, the Eggstein family from Zofingen took over the castle and had the chapel, corner towers and surrounding wall demolished. After several changes of hands - the painter Auguste de Pourtalès owned it, among others - Karl von Schumacher bought it in 1942 . He belonged to the Lucerne patrician family Schumacher and was the founder of the weekly newspaper Die Weltwoche . After his death, his brother Pierre von Schumacher lived at the castle and later his widow.
The castle has been private since 1998 and is owned by the Sigg family of industrialists. It can only be viewed from a distance from the shore.
Web links
- Mauensee Castle on mauensee.ch
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Frey: Mauensee. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 22, 2008. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 10 '7.7 " N , 8 ° 4' 25.9" E ; CH1903: six hundred and forty-eight thousand one hundred sixty-one / 224,399