Sünching Castle

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The Sünching castle is a Grade II listed building in the Krankenhausstraße Suenching in the district of Regensburg ( Bayern ).

Copper engraving by Michael Wening (1645–1718) from Sünching Castle
Sünching Castle

history

A first Niederungsburg was probably in the 12./13. Built in the 16th century by the Sünchinger family, it was first mentioned in 1395. In 1573 it was acquired by Georg Ludwig the Elder Baron von Seinsheim . After the Thirty Years' War it was used as a plague hospital and then burned down. Baron Christian von Seinsheim had a stone house built at this point in 1668. Joseph Franz Graf von Seinsheim had the former Munich court architect François de Cuvilliés the Elder build today's moated castle in 1758 . After the death of the last Countess Seinsheim, it came into the possession of her grandson, Baron von Hoenning O'Carroll . He and his family have lived in the castle ever since. Except for special events, it cannot be viewed.

building

Castle economy
Former castle brewery
Castle gardening

The building is a three-storey, almost regular octagonal moated castle with a medieval core around an irregular octagonal inner courtyard, the facade structured by corner pilasters, drilled frames and portals.

The form of the idiosyncratic, quite imposing, but simple exterior hardly suggests that this is one of the outstanding country castles in southern Germany, a total work of art of the courtly Rococo in Bavaria, for which Cuvilliés drew famous masters. The ballroom from 1761 is equipped with a ceiling fresco by Matthäus Günther , carvings by Ignaz Günther and side cabinets. The fresco of the stairwell was created by Johann Adam Schöpf . The two-storey rococo palace chapel “Assumption of Mary” dates from 1760, with an altar relief by Ignaz Günther. Stucco work by Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer can also be found. The castle still retains the unadulterated character of the time it was built, including tiled stoves, paper wallpapers in two Chinese rooms, textile wallpapers painted with chinoiseries in the "Dutch rooms" and two built-in libraries. The once rich furnishings are no longer available unless they were permanently installed (library, rococo ovens, stair gate).

Castle economy, castle brewery and castle gardening

The castle economy is a single-storey three-wing complex with hipped roofs and two-storey pavilions as head buildings, roof turrets and courtyard gates from the middle of the 18th century. The former bailiwick is a three-storey hipped roof building with plastered structures, round arch style around 1860. The palace gardening is a single-storey neo-baroque saddle roof building with pent roofs, a stair tower with onion dome and tail gable around 1900.

Outdoor area

The southern and northern bridges are each four-bay stone bridges over the former moat, which is now dry. The avenue from the cellar house to the castle was laid out in the middle of the 18th century. The castle gate with its two pilaster pillars with attachments dates from the middle of the 18th century.

literature

  • Katharina Benak: Sünching Castle - A total work of art of the courtly Rococo in Bavaria . From the series: Regensburg Studies on Art History, Volume 7. 1st edition. Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-2124-3 .
  • Andreas Boos : Castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate - the early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area . From the series: Regensburger Studien zur Kunstgeschichte, Volume 5. Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-930480-03-4 , pp. 368–373.
  • Sünching Castle . From the series: Kleine Kunstführer, Volume 1650. Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 1988.
  • Living in the octagonal film set , Tanja Rexhepaj, Mittelbayerische Zeitung, August 24, 2010, accessed March 30, 2016

Web links

  • Entry on Sünching in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 39.1 ″  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 12 ″  E