Kolberg Castle

Kolberg Castle today

Kolberg Castle after an etching by Michael Wening from 1721

The Kolberg Castle (also Kolbergschlössl , formerly also just the seat of Kolberg , then Neukolberg Castle or more recently called Josephsburg ) is located in the town of Altötting in the Altötting district of Bavaria (Kolbergstrasse 4).

history

Neukolberg Castle or the Kolberg seat goes back to Wolfgang Kolberger , who was born in Altötting around 1444 . He entered the office of Duke Georgs in Landshut as a clerk in 1464 and was appointed Chancellor in 1487 . In 1491 he was able to acquire from Ortolph Wispeckh the seat and the estate in Kolberg between the Pächen of the Mern (= Mörenbach) and the Pach, which runs down through the Wiesmad called the Sicking (= Sickenbach) . Immediately afterwards he began with the demolition and construction of Neukolberg Castle, which appeared under this name in the documents as early as 1493. Kolberger was from Emperor Friedrich III. appointed hereditary imperial baron on Neukolberg. The Bavarian duke paid this rich kingdom immediate county with the neck Court between Inn , Mörnbach and Öttinger forest from. This made Kolberg an exempter district of the Duchy of Bavaria . The Duke also gave his Chancellor Mörmoosen Castle and in 1494 the rule of Wildeneck in Mondseeland . Kolberger fell out of favor with his employer and was imprisoned for seventeen years. He died two years after his release; his daughter Anna, engaged to Wilhelm Taufkircher von Guttenberg in 1497, had already survived in 1506. This was also the end of the county of Kolberg. All properties were confiscated without compensation.

The seat of Kolberg came into the hands of the Loeffelholz family from 1507–1564 . In 1557 Wilhelm Loeffelholz and his children are registered as the owner. 1564–1575 the property goes to the Notthaft von Weißenstein. The next owners are from 1575–1608 the Haunsperger . She is followed by Longinus Walther von Waltherswyl, nurse on the Plainburg . In 1609 Johann Wilhelm Valentin Schmid von Wellers bought the castle, in 1644 the forestry master of Altötting, Tobias Günther, was proven to be the owner. After his death, Johann Christoph Steckenreif bought the castle in 1680. In 1739 the seat is sold to Neuötting's caretaker, Josef von Jonner. 1750–1790, the property came to the Counts of Perusa, who set up a non-profit cotton mill in the castle, but in 1759 it went bankrupt. The next owner was a Count von Waldkirch , who died by suicide.

In the same year Kolberg went to the Altötting citizen families Sighart, Taler and Fraunhofer. In 1852 they sold the castle to the English ladies . From then on, the castle was called Josephsburg and was used as a boarding school ( Schießl'sches educational institute ) for 130 years .

The current user is the (catholic) community Emmanuel.

State 2014

Kolberg Castle then and now

As you can see from the etching by Michael Wening from 1721, Neukolnberg Castle was a mighty building made up of two connected buildings. One part was five-story with two towers and a stepped gable, the rear part was two-story. The castle also included buildings used for farming purposes. Next to the castle a park and a tree garden can be seen, the latter was a picket fence enclosed.

Today a four-storey gable roof building with an oriel tower facing east is still preserved. A neo-Gothic chapel dates from 1854. The enclosure wall with a pavilion and neo-Gothic gate dates from around 1853.

literature

• Claudia Schwab: Altötting. The district court of Neuötting, the city court of Burghausen and the courts of Wald and Leonberg-Marktl. (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 63). Commission for Bavarian History. Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7696-6853-7 .

Web links

Commons : Kolberg Castle  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claudia Schwab: The Kolberg seat. In: Altötting. Pp. 438-443.
2. ↑ Imprint - Emmanuel School of Mission (ESM) Altötting. In: esm-altoetting.de. Retrieved April 3, 2016 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 29.7 "  N , 12 ° 40 ′ 22.4"  E