Schlatt Castle among crows

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Schlatt Castle among crows

The Castle Schlatt among crows is on the western outskirts of Schlatt among crows (now part of the city Singen (Hohentwiel) ), not far from the Hohenkrähen located landmarked castle. It is surrounded by an extensive park in the style of an English garden.

history

A residential complex originally built by Hans Ernst von Reischach (before 1539) was followed by the construction of a representative country palace between 1592 and 1598 when Hans Ludwig von Bodman acquired the Schlatt manor. The subsequent owners were the families of Raitenau (1606-19), Ebinger von der Burg (1619-1785), Lenz von Lenzenfeld (1785-1790) and von Bodman (1790-1816). From 1816 the castle was again owned by the von Reischach family , whose inheritance passed to the Count Douglas from the Langenstein line through adoption . The current owner is Robin Graf Douglas von Reischach, son of Patrick Graf Douglas von Reischach (1938-2010).

description

Epitaph : Hans Werner von Reischach († 1623)

The three-story mansion has a gable roof and the corners are studded with octagonal towers. On the east side you can see remains of a facade painting from the Renaissance period that was exposed in 1970. The castle with the four corner towers embodies a type widespread from the late 15th to the 17th century, the so-called fort type of a late medieval castle. The epitaph of Hans Werner von Reischach, created by the important sculptor Jörg Zürn around 1610, is located in the entrance hall on the ground floor of the palace . The epitaph was originally in the Reischach chapel of the later secularized and subsequently demolished monastery church of Petershausen (now part of Konstanz ) and was saved from destruction by Joseph von Reischach in 1831.

literature

  • Franz Hofmann (Red.): Anniversary volume 50 years of the Hegau history association “Hegau impressions - old views up to 1850” (= Hegau 62). Hegau-Geschichtsverein, Singen / Hohentwiel 2005, ISBN 3-933356-31-8 .
  • Michael Losse, Hans Noll: castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau. Defense buildings and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area (= Hegau Library 109). Michael Greuter Verlag, Hilzingen 2006, ISBN 3-938566-05-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Melanie Völk: Exclusive visit to the “Poppele” . In: Südkurier of September 10, 2011

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 15.6 ″  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 1 ″  E