Schweinspoint Castle

Castle courtyard with east side wing and castle church

Castle in Schweinspoint

150 years of the St. Johannes Foundation for the disabled: German postage stamp from 2010

Schweinspoint Castle is located in Schweinspoint , a district of Marxheim in the Donau-Ries district .

history

The castle was rebuilt in the 17th century after the previous building burned down in part during the Thirty Years War . In 1683 it was acquired by Friedrich Ferdinand Sittig von Hacke (1634–1693) with his wife Maria Anna Sabine, b. von Nuland († 1690). He worked as chamberlain and hereditary chief stable master in the Principality of Pfalz-Neuburg . The family called themselves after the property with full name Hacke auf Schweinspoint and owned it until 1849. His son Ludwig Anton von Hacke (1682–1752), Oberstjäger- or Oberstforstmeister from the Palatinate, was born there.

In 1860, the Order of the Brothers of Mercy acquired the building complex and set up an institution for the terminally ill . In the following decades the castle was expanded further.

In 1971 the Caritas Association in Augsburg took over the facility, which has been called the St. Johannes Foundation for the Disabled since then .

architecture

The castle is a four-wing complex with a late medieval church and farm buildings.

literature

• Geographisches Statistisch-Topographisches Lexikon von Baiern III , Ulm 1797 published by the Stettinische Buchhandlung Verlag, page 324
• Doris Pfister: Donauwörth. The former district (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Part Swabia: Row 1). Lassleben, Kallmünz 2008, ISBN 978-3-7696-6855-1 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Schweinspoint  - Collection of images

• Historical lexicon of Bavaria: Counts of Lechsgemünd-Graisbach
• Coat of arms and history of Schweinspoint
• Sankt Johannes Schweinspoint Foundation
• Marxheim community

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website on the history of Schweinspoint
2. ^ Entry on Schweinspoint in the private database "Alle Burgen".
3. ↑ St. John's Foundation. Retrieved May 5, 2015 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 10.4 "  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 4.5"  E