Rauenstein Castle (Überlingen)
The Castle Rauenstein is a neo-baroque , built in the early 20th century, Grade II listed mansion in Ueberlingen .
history
Around 1903 the Swiss privateer and knight master a. D. Otto Ziesig build the eye-catching villa, known as the “castle”, on the Rauhhalde hill (that is the old name ) with a park and chestnut avenue in the east of Überlingen.
The two-storey building in the neo-baroque style is characterized by a high basement, designed side elevations , pilaster corner blocks , various cornices , window canopies , ornaments and figurative reliefs under two mansard roofs , as well as the striking central roof , the striking tip of which is visible from afar.
The palace area with a 2.68 hectare public park served after 1945 as the seat of a French general and the later district governor Lindemann. It remained in private ownership until 1950/51. After it was taken over by the then Überlingen district , it became the property of the new Lake Constance district as part of the district reform of 1973 . Other uses of the building include a casino or a sanatorium . Instead, an agricultural school was set up with a new building next to it, as well as the agricultural office in the villa.
In 2003 the richly decorated castle was completely renovated. Today, the share Akademie Schloss Rauenstein the University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten and the Chamber of Commerce premises. Furthermore, school branches use the adjoining building. In addition, an apple trail with the various apple varieties from the Lake Constance region was laid out on the southern slope of the park. In 2015 the city of Überlingen acquired the villa from the Bodenseekreis in order to counteract a sale on the open market and to ensure the public accessibility of the park.
literature
- Michael Losse, Bürgersinn eV Überlingen (ed.), Cultural Office Überlingen, Kur- und Touristik Überlingen GmbH: Überlingen am Bodensee - Cultural History and Architecture , Michael Imhof Verlag, 2010, ISBN 9783865685759 .
- Eugen Schnering, Gesellschaft der Kunstfreunde Überlingen eV (Ed.): Überlingen - City History in Street Names , Verlag der Gesellschaft der Kunstfreunde Überlingen eV, 1993.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the castle
- ↑ City buys Rauenstein Castle for 2.9 million euros. ( Memento of the original from March 31, 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. , überlingen.de, March 25, 2015, accessed on May 1, 2015
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Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 48 ″ N , 9 ° 10 ′ 35 ″ E