Ringberg Castle

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Ringberg Castle in front of the Tegernsee

Ringberg Castle is a building halfway up the Ringberg in the Tegernsee Mountains , 1.7 km (as the crow flies ) southeast of the Tegernsee or its southwestern bay called Ringsee , at an altitude of 905.9 meters above sea level. It is located in the area of ​​the community of Kreuth and is used today as a conference center for the Max Planck Society (MPG).

The builder from 1912 until his death in 1973 was Luitpold Emanuel Herzog in Bayern (1890–1973) (son of Max Emanuel in Bavaria ), the last physical offspring of a branch of the Wittelsbach family , the dukes in Bavaria .

Despite the long construction period, only a few rooms in the palace were habitable until 1973; Except for a caretaker couple and the “house artist” Friedrich Attenhuber (1877–1947), no one lived in the castle until 1973. All the pictures in the castle, both paintings and drawings as well as murals, are from Attenhuber. A large part of the furnishings was also designed by Attenhuber - in this respect the castle is one of the rare total works of art . Both the architecture and the interior of the castle, some parts of which have been preserved in the original, are an idiosyncratic mixture of numerous styles, mainly from the Middle Ages, the Baroque and Art Nouveau.

The builder Luitpold Herzog in Bavaria built large parts of his property into Ringberg Castle and also sold other inherited properties such as Possenhofen Castle and Biederstein Castle in Munich-Schwabing for the expansion of Ringberg.

The castle as a conference center

Entrance from Ringberg Castle

In 1967, an inheritance contract was signed between Luitpold Herzog in Bavaria and the Max Planck Society, which stipulated that the castle would go to the MPG after Herzog in Bavaria's death. For the maintenance of the building, Herzog in Bavaria also inherited another cash fortune, from which renovation work that is still necessary today is financed. After Herzog's death in Bavaria, the palace was initially used until around 1980 for small conferences by scientists, mainly from the Max Planck Society, but also from the Technical University of Munich. Between 1980 and 1983, the castle was expanded with funds from a donation from the Munich reinsurance company . The new construction of a lecture hall for around 60 people was based on plans by Munich architect Otto Meitinger . After the expansion, the palace was opened in 1983 by Reimar Lüst , then President of the Max Planck Society.

The palace also came to the Max Planck Society through Otto Meitinger in the 1960s: as an employee of the Bavarian Palace Administration, he prepared an appraisal of the palace's monument status. Luitpold Herzog in Bavaria wanted the castle to be recognized as the "last monument of the Romantic era" since the 1950s. Between 1963 and 1976 Meitinger was the head of the construction department of the Max Planck Society and brokered the inheritance contract between Herzog in Bayern and the MPG.

It was not until 1973 that the palace was recognized as a monument after the Bavarian Monument Act was passed . The castle is open to the public every two years on an open day; the last date was July 6, 2019.

Axel Hörmann was the head of the conference center from 1983, and Jochen Essl has been the head since 2009. The conference facility has a team of twelve employees.

Illustrations

  • Castle in front of Ringspitz

  • The lock

  • From the direction of Ringspitz

  • hill

  • North face

  • tower

  • Entrance gate

  • House of the lord of the castle

  • Castle wall

  • Castle complex

literature

  • Helga Himen: Ringberg Castle on Tegernsee, the end of the Wittelsbach building tradition - a meeting place for science . With the collaboration of Heiderose Engelhardt, with contributions by Otto Meitinger and Manfred Rühle . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich and Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-06790-5 .
  • Max Planck Society (ed.): Ringberg Castle, conference venue of the Max Planck Society . In: Series of reports and communications from the Max Planck Society . Issue 1994/3, ISSN  0341-7778 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Ringberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates & event information for Ringberg Castle
  2. ↑ see report in Merkur.de from 2009 , accessed on December 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ see page of the MPG about 100 years of Ringberg , accessed on December 18, 2015.

Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 45.2 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 59 ″  E