Schönbrunn (Denkendorf)

Schönbrunn Municipality Denkendorf Coordinates: 48 ° 55 ′ 2 "  N , 11 ° 28 ′ 38"  E
Height :	478  (478-488)  m
Residents :	310  (2004)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1971
Postal code :	85095
Area code :	08466
Schönbrunn Palace near Denkendorf

Schönbrunn is part of the community of Denkendorf in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt .

geography

The place is located on the plateau of the southern Franconian Jura, southeast of the community seat of Denkendorf and east of the federal highway 9 .

history

The moated castle "Prunn / Prun / Brunn" - later called "Schönbrunn / Schönprunn" - is mentioned for the first time in 1305 in the Gaimersheim arbitration award in the dispute over the Hirschberg legacy after the Hirschberg counts with Gebhard VII. And awarded to the bishopric of Eichstätt . In 1447 a local nobleman from neighboring Zandt , Konrad Zanter, owned the castle; whether and why the sex ultimately moved its seat here must remain open. In 1473, the Eichstatt Bishop Prunn gave a fiefdom (at that time in succession to the Lords von Heideck to Albrecht Klark, Peter von Wilmersdorf and Hans von Mörnsheim ), from 1475 onwards the Duke of Bavaria-Landshut, to whom the bishop had given the fief in a barter transaction . In 1485 Ulrich Zanter owned Prunn, who sold the estate to Wolfgang Scherner, who in turn sold it to Duke Georg the Rich . In 1517 the ducal master builder Leonhard Halder owned the property. The other owners changed frequently. Since 1560 the property has been known as the Electoral Palatinate-Baierische Hofmark . In 1572 the princely provisions and paymaster Georg David Wegmacher owned Prunn in Ingolstadt ; In the same year he bought the Hofmark Zandt from the Plankstetten Monastery and combined both court brands. They were set on fire by the Swedes in the Thirty Years War in 1632; The Hann family (Han, Haan) owned Prunn from 1595 to 1660. A jug bakery and a glass factory (green glass production up to around 1870) can be found in the 17th and 18th centuries.

In 1729 General Wachtmeister Remowsky owned the estate. In 1812 the court brands were merged into a village court under the new owner, Baron Carl Ernst von Gravenreut, who had bought them from Thomas Joseph Freiherr von Bechmann, which was subordinate to the Ingolstadt regional court and rent office. After him, the court brands belonged to Clement Graf von Leyden. He sold in 1817 to the Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince of Eichstätt , Eugène de Beauharnais , who used the complex as a hunting lodge until 1852 (for the Kösching Forest) and had clay mineral water bottles made, filled and sold here.

1809 was from Prunn and Kösching Forest of control district Prunn been formed, which in 1818 a separate municipality was (until 1816 including the Wirtsguts in Grampersdorf ). From 1809 to 1819 Prunn / Zandt formed its own local court. The community was detached from Ingolstadt in 1819 and assigned to the Kipfenberg district court . In 1833, with the end of the Leuchtenberg principality, the municipalities of Schönbrunn and Zandt fell back administratively to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From then on they were again subject to the Kipfenberg district court. In 1842, Duke Maximilian von Leuchtenberg achieved that Zandt and Prunn was recognized as a patrimonial court . This situation only lasted until 1848, when both places were again incorporated into the Kipfenberg district court. In 1855, the widow of Duke Maximilian de Beauharnais , the Russian Grand Duchess Marija Nikolajewna Romanowa , sold her entire property, including the Prunn estate, to the Bavarian state . In 1875 the name was changed from “Prunn” to “Schönbrunn”. “Schönprunn” can already be read on the grave slab of the glass factory and landowner Max Knitel, who died in 1861 and which has been preserved at the place where he died, Kipfenberg.

Beer was brewed in Schönbrunn until around 1920. Today the castle belongs to Count Maximilian von der Schulenburg.

On April 1, 1971, the previously independent town was during the Bavarian municipal reform after Denkendorf incorporated. In 1983 there were two full-time agricultural and five part-time farms in Schönbrunn, including the manor.

Prunn Palace in Wenings Description from 1701

Schönbrunn Castle

The castle is on the western edge of the village. It is a new building from the early 18th century, which is surrounded on three sides by a pond fed by several springs. The three-storey building with a hipped roof shows undivided facades; the long sides have nine, the narrow sides three window axes. On the ridge there is an octagonal ridge turret with a domed roof for the St. Joseph Palace Chapel on the ground floor. On the surrounding wall are stone busts from 1786 and thus from the Bechmann period, which depict the winged Chronos and the seasons of summer, autumn and winter. In 1855 the Leuchtenbergers sold the castle to Johann Georg von Löwel, Royal Bavarian Councilor and District Judge von Kulmbach . In 1900 ownership passed to his grandson Eugen Freiherr von Seefried on Buttenheim , whose grandson Maximilian Graf von der Schulenburg is the current lord of the castle.

In addition to buildings used for agriculture, the castle includes a two-wing, three-storey former brewery (built in 1839 under the Duke of Leuchtenberg, probably by Leo von Klenze , classicistic ) with a malt kiln outlet and - in the west of the estate - a 14 m high water tower with ox treading system and piston pumps from that time of the late baroque .

Population development

year	Residents
1830	107
1898	187
1912	162
1938	160
1973	180
1983	177
2004	310
2010	301

societies

• Schönbrunn volunteer fire department
• Schönbrunn Warrior Association

literature

• Michael Wening: Description of the electorate and duchy of Upper and Lower Bavaria, I, Rentamt München . Munich 721, p. 129 and plate 118
• Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. II Eichstätt District Office. Munich 1928 (Reprint Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag 1982), p. 326f. (with Chronos fig.)
• Schönbrunn Palace . In: Karl Zecherle (Red.): Castles and palaces . Eichstätt: District no year, p. 36f.
• The Eichstätter area past and present. 2nd Edition. Eichstätt: Sparkasse Eichstätt 1984, p. 282f. (with bibliography)
• Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Franken series I issue 6: Eichstätt . In: Bayer's digital library. State Library
• Regina von Wernitz-Keibel: Schönbrunn Palace . In: Globulus. Contributions of the Natural and Cultural Science Society 2 (1994), pp. 86–92
• Leo Hintermayr: The Principality of Eichstätt of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg 1817–1833. Munich: CH Beck 2000
• Schönbrunn Palace: A wonderful gem. In: Eichstätter Kurier of August 22, 2000
• The glassworks in Prunn (Schönbrunn) . In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 96 (2003), p. 9f.
• Find a worthy place for a historical grave slab (of Max Knitel). In: Eichstätter Kurier of July 13, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 456 .