Schönach Castle

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The Schoenach Castle is a Grade II listed building in Castle Street in the district of the town of Schonach Mötzing in the district of Regensburg ( Bayern ).

Copper engraving by Michael Wening (1645–1718) from Schönach Palace

history

From 1171 to 1327 a number of ministerials of the Bishop of Regensburg appeared, named after their seat de / von Schönaich . After these came the Achdorfer , Chamerauer and Satelboger as Hofmarkherren in the 14th century , followed by the Falkensteiner, Fraunberger and Paulsdorfer in the 15th century . In the early 16th century Schönach came into the hands of the von Seiboldsdorf family . In the years 1557 to 1559 Hieronymus von Seibolstorff zu Schönaich and Aiterhofen had the country estate redesigned in the Renaissance style. Anna, one of his three daughters, married Hans Bernhard Notthracht in 1588 . In the division of the estate, she and her two sisters received the Hofmark in 1590. The son Hans Albrecht, who died in 1624, was followed by his cousin Ernst Heinrich Nothracht. In 1638 the guardians of Ernst Heinrich's children sold the estate to Count Johann Heinrich Notthracht von Wernberg , who sold it on to Paul Christoph Freiherr von Leiblfing the following year.

In 1661 Johann Georg I, Count von Königsfeld, acquired the Schönach Hofmark. His inheritance fell to his grandson, Count Johann Georg II von Königsfeld , in 1700 . Two years later, he started the renovation. Around 1726 the castle and Hofmark belonged to Count Emanuel von Arco . In 1764 the Counts of Seinsheim bought the property. Later he came to the barons of Moreau. Towards the end of the 20th century, Curt-Hildebrand von Einsiedel- Wolftitz and his wife Amélie, née Princess of Urach , the castle.

building

Schönach Castle

The three-storey hipped roof building with seven to eleven axes with pilaster structure dates from 1702, probably by Giovanni Antonio Viscardi , who rebuilt the castle on behalf of the then owner, Count Johann Georg von Königsfeld. Landshut master mason Wolf Ehamb was the site manager. The castle has a baroque interior from after 1703, executed by the plasterer Giovanni Niccolò Perti and the fresco painter Hans Georg Asam , among others . There is a three-flight staircase to the east of the facility. The knight's hall is equipped with stucco work and wall paintings, the ceiling was partially broken down in 1995 and has been scaffolded since then, restoration is planned.

The northern, eastern and southern outer pavilions are each two-story tent roof structures with plastered structures from 1707 (for the eastern outer pavilion: 1708) and a subsequent single-story gable roof. The eastern outside pavilion was later used as a forester's house. The western castle gate with pillars with profiled cover plates dates from 1708. The castle avenue leads to the western side. The castle park wall with pulpits and pillars with attachments dates from the 1st quarter of the 18th century.

Economic courtyard of the castle

Schönach Castle, eastern entrance to the castle

The economic courtyard of the castle consists of an eastern gable-side barn with a half-hipped roof and apartments and a western barn with a half-hipped roof and elevator dormer, to which another barn with a half-hipped and hipped roof is attached. The gatehouse with gate entrance is a single-storey hipped roof building (partially renewed) with two pillars with attachments. The eastern entrance to the castle with an avenue, a gate made of two pillars with essays and two sheds and single-storey saddle roof buildings dates from the first quarter of the 18th century.

See also

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Bayern V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate Handbook of German Art Monuments , Drexler Jolanda / Hubel Achim (arrangement), Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1991

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family Nothhaben, seat and burial place in Schönach
  2. ↑ Project data restoration

Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 36.5 ″  N , 12 ° 25 ′ 21.4 ″  E