Neubeu Castle

Neubeu Castle
type of school	High School Internat
founding	1925
address	Schlossstrasse 20
place	Re-firing
country	Bavaria
Country	Germany
Coordinates	47 ° 46 '33 " N , 12 ° 8' 21" E Coordinates: 47 ° 46 '33 " N , 12 ° 8' 21" E
carrier	Foundation Landerziehungsheim Neubänen
student	about 200
Teachers	about 30
management	Carlo Ribeca, headmaster ; Jörg Müller, boarding school director
Website	www.schloss-neubüsten.de

The Neubeuer Castle is a multi-wing castle complex in the Inn Valley . It was originally built in the 12th century as a hilltop castle on a hill in the Inn Valley above the town of Neubänen . The striking keep can be seen far over the Inn Valley and from the A 8 and A 93 motorways .

Neubeu Castle

history

Castle and market Neubeuer
Neubeu Castle
Castle courtyard
Castle courtyard

12-17 century

Because of the oldest part of the castle , the donjon, the first beginnings of Schloss Neubeuen can be set in the second half of the 12th century. The castle originally belonged to the domain of the bishops of Regensburg . During the disputes between the bishopric and the Bavarian Duke Ludwig in the 13th century, it was handed over to Count Konrad von Wasserburg for administration. He is said to have built a huge ring wall with nine towers and expanded the fortress into the strongest castle complex in the Inn Valley. In 1388, however, the Regensburg bishop sold the castle to the knight Hartprecht Harskircher auf Zangberg , the chamberlain of Duke Friedrich von Bayern-Landshut . More than three hundred years of Regensburg rule were thus concluded for Neubeuert.

12 years later, Ritter Wolfhart von der Alben acquired the castle, but sold it to the knight Jakob von Thurn in 1403. The Thurn family had worked their way up from small archbishop servants to the Salzburg gentry. The castle remained in their possession for over two hundred years until the rule of the Thurners began to crumble at the beginning of the 17th century.

18. – 19. century

Chapel and east building around 1900

Chapel of Neubänen Castle

From 1668, the Counts of Preysing-Hohenaschau became “collectors” of the Thurnerische possessions in Neubeuert . The castle and the market survived the Thirty Years' War relatively unscathed, but Hungarian troops destroyed Neubeuert during the War of the Austrian Succession . What was left of the castle was blown up.

Count Max IV. Emanuel von Preysing-Hohenaschau (1739–1764) then commissioned the Munich city architect Ignaz Anton Gunetzrhainer , together with his brother Johann Baptist Gunetzrhainer , to completely redesign the complex in the style of the Bavarian Tyrolean mansions (1747–1752).

The St. Augustin Palace Chapel was also rebuilt in 1751 according to plans by Johann Baptist Gunetzrhainer under the direction of Philipp Millauer . In the design worked Johann Baptist Zimmermann (high altar with pillar stand in Wessobrunn stucco marble-style ) and Joseph Götsch with which the two side altars 1767/68 (Baptism of Christ and the martyrdom created Hl. Sebastian ). The St. Augustin Palace Chapel belongs to the Bavarian Rococo and is the destination of visitors to Neubeuen who are interested in art history.

Count Johann-Christian Preysing died in 1833. The property remained in the hands of his descendants for around thirty years and could no longer be held by them either.

In 1882 Jan Wendelstadt, son of the founder of the "Darmstädter Bankverein Ferdinand Wendelstadt" and a Dutch aristocrat, bought the castle. In 1893, Julie married Countess von Degenfeld-Schonburg , a lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Württemberg , who became the mistress of the Neubeu Castle as Baroness von Wendelstadt. With that the connection to the Swabian-German nobility was complete.

20th century

After the eastern part of the palace had already been renovated after a fire in 1893, the baron had the central part of the palace rebuilt between 1904 and 1908. He commissioned the architect Gabriel von Seidl , who had become famous for building the Bavarian National Museum . The new central building, which was designed in the neo-renaissance style, is characterized by its spacious staircase and the splendid rooms.

Jan Wendelstadt's marriage to Julie von Degenfeld had remained childless. The baroness spent the years after her husband's death mainly with her sister-in-law Ottonie von Degenfeld and other people who were spiritually related to her. She formed a circle of friends of artistic and creative people, including writers and poets such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Annette Kolb , Rudolf Alexander Schröder , Rudolf Borchardt , Henry van de Velde , Harry Graf Kessler , Eugen Roth , Carl Burckhardt , Henry von Heiseler , the musician and composer Max von Schillings and the art historian and Krupp director Eberhard von Bodenhausen . There were also well-known South German painters such as Karl Arnold , Bruno Paul , Leo Putz , Paul Hoecker , Arnold Böcklin , Alfred Haushofer , Franz von Lenbach , Anton Josef Pepino , Walter Püttner , Ludwig von Hofmann , Hans Rossmann , Joseph Sattler and Franz von Stuck . Some of these people met annually for a “Neubeurer week” until the First World War. After that, the castle was used as a hospital .

school

history

School at Schloss Neubeuer 2012

The general impoverishment after the First World War put an end to the previous life at the castle. To enable further maintenance of the facility, it was decided to found a boarding school based on the model of the Schloss Salem school . The founding of the school was supported by Georg Kerschensteiner , school teacher and founder of the German vocational school .

On May 5, 1923, Neubeu Castle opened its doors as a school. The first director was the Latin teacher Josef Rieder, and one of the first students was Michael Mann , a son of the writer Thomas Mann . Further students were placed from the Schloss Salem school.

During the time of National Socialism , Rieder tried to steer an ideologically neutral course, but the NSDAP regarded the school as "politically unreliable" and closed it on February 13, 1941. In order to forestall expropriation, the baroness sold the entire palace complex to the German Empire in the spring of 1942 . As a result, a national political educational institute was set up in the castle, the only one in the Reichsgau Munich-Upper Bavaria. Baroness Julie von Wendelstadt died on November 12, 1942.

During the Second World War and during the occupation , the school again served as a hospital. After the end of the war, the baroness's sister-in-law, Countess Degenfeld, and her daughter, Marie-Therese Miller-Degenfeld, now living in America, campaigned for the sale of the castle to be declared invalid and reversed. Ms. Miller intended to transfer the property to a foundation whose job it would be to bring the school back to life.

In 1947 a founding consortium met and in April 1948 school life could start again on a modest scale. The reopening of the boarding school as the “Private Landerziehungsheim Neubänen am Inn” by the foundation finally took place in June 1948. As a contribution to international understanding, the school should from now on be open to children and young people of all walks of life and nations. In addition, the Neubünsch Castle housed a youth leadership school of the Bavarian Youth Association founded in 1947 , which was under the direction of the reform pedagogue Karl Seidelmann in 1948.

Immediately after the Second World War, Neubeu Castle followed up on the pre-war period with the “Neubeurer Weeks”, especially in literary terms. From July 26th to 28th 1947 there was a preparatory meeting of Group 47 in Hinterhör near Altenbeuern . The fourth official meeting took place at Countess Ottonie Degenfeld's in her property in Hinterhör, in September 1948.

The boarding school at Schloss Neubeuen

Today's sponsor of the school is the “Stiftung Landerziehungsheim Neubänen”. It is a state-recognized economics and mathematics-natural science high school with boarding and day school. The school teaches according to the curriculum for grammar schools in Bavaria and is intended to enable pupils to take the secondary school leaving certificate and the Abitur. Particular emphasis should be placed on the concept of holistic education. In addition to the normal high school lessons, the development of athletic, artistic and social skills should also be promoted in a special way. For this purpose, there is a wide range of working groups, so-called guilds, from which each student has to choose a certain number depending on the age group. An exceptional example of this is the Glass Guild, which was opened in 1967 as the world's first glass workshop of a high school by the artist and art mediator Florian Lechner and was looked after until the 1980s.

Schloss Neubeuer's project "Digital Ink" is currently attracting particular attention. After completing a test phase, all students from grade 9 upwards learn and work with a tablet PC. With the approval of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, 30 pupils from the 2013 Abitur class prepared for the first time for a digital Abitur exam and wrote their exams with stylus on the touch displays of their tablet PCs. The private grammar school Neubeuer is one of the very few general education schools in Germany that have already implemented integrated learning comprehensively.

The castle in film and television

The castle provided a backdrop for various films. The best-known are Johannisnacht (1956) with Willy Birgel and Hertha Feiler , Ein Fall für TKKG: Drachenauge (1992) and Crazy (2000), which is based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Benjamin Lebert , who was a student at Neubünsch Castle in 1998. His critical review of his time in boarding school became a bestseller.

Large parts of the episode Death in Boarding School of the television series Der Bulle von Tölz were also filmed at Schloss Neubeuen. On September 23, 2006, a scene for the ZDF series The Rosenheim Cops was filmed on the south terrace of the castle. In the episode Bahnhofsbaby of the television crime series Der Alte , broadcast on June 23, 1989, the north facade with the stair tower and the main entrance can be seen in a scene.

A one-hour report about the boarding school was broadcast on RTL on August 16, 2009: four boarding school students were followed by a camera team for a year.

On January 7, 2019, the Bavarian television broadcast the documentary "The Udes - an impossible couple" from the series "Lifelines". Edith von Welser-Ude and speaks in the garden of the castle with her former classmate and long-time friend Florian Lechner about their school days together in Neubeuert.