Mering Castle
Mering Castle is a two-storey, angular building with a high hipped roof and two polygonal corner towers with hoods. It is surrounded by a park with old trees, on the western edge of the market Mering at the pair .
history
The history of the castle begins around 1060. It was originally founded by the Franconian noble family of the Welfen , who built a so-called Niederungsburg on one of the couple's islands . In the 13th century ownership passed to the noble family of Wittelsbach , who used the castle until 1808. It was u. a. Seat of a nursing court with administrative tasks. Over the centuries the castle was plundered, burned down and destroyed again and again. In the War of the Spanish Succession in 1704 it was completely destroyed except for the outer walls.
After numerous changes of ownership, Edmund Freiherr von Boutteville from Cumiéres / Verdun acquired the castle from its owner, now the State of Bavaria, including the castle brewery that has been part of it since the beginning of the 17th century. In 1939 the area was inherited by the noble von Grauvogl family . In 1945 the last lady of the castle from Boutteville, Maria Alfonsine Edle von Grauvogl, born. Boutteville. After 1945 the castle was used as a retirement home. From 1954, after extensive renovations, Luitpold Edler von Grauvogl used the building as a residence. The castle brewery ceased operations in 1982.
The oldest surviving ceiling painting from the castle is from 1590. The coat of arms of the baronial Boutteville family is located above the east gate of the building. It bears the dates 1843 (takeover of the castle by the baronial Boutteville family) and 1945 (death of the last member of the von Bouttevilles family).
The castle, the oldest part of which is the Malztenne with an imposing groin vault , was used privately until 2014 and, like the castle park, was not open to the public. Town houses and condominiums have been built into the castle since 2014.
literature
- Georg Paula , Christian Bollacher: Aichach-Friedberg district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.87 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-87490-591-6 , p. 379-380 .
- Klaus F. Linschied: Looted, pillaged and destroyed. Mering Castle is still marked by a turbulent history, in: Friedberger Allgemeine, No. 116, Saturday, May 22, 2010, p. 6
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Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 7.3 ″ N , 10 ° 59 ′ 2 ″ E