Schwindegg Castle

Schwindegg Castle

Memorial plaque at the entrance to Schwindegg Castle

Northeast tower

Schwindegg Castle is a Renaissance moated castle in the center of Schwindegg , a rural community in the Upper Bavarian district of Mühldorf am Inn . As Hofmarkschloss it was the manor of Hofmark Schwindegg.

history

As early as the 14th century, there was a manor house in Schwindegg. In 1389 Friederich vonättenpeck was the first owner mentioned in a document. In 1394, the Lords of Fraunhofen became the owners, a Bavarian aristocratic family with ancestral headquarters in Alt- and Neufraunhofen in the Landshut district . Schwindegg remained in their possession for over 100 years. In 1504 the castle was burned down in the Landshut War of Succession . Jakob I von Fraunhofen was the last male representative of his family on Schwindegg. Rule passed through his daughter Anna to her husband Ulrich Marschall von Pappenheim († 1539), who was enfeoffed by Emperor Maximilian I with Schwindegg in 1518 . In 1553 Anna's son Veit zu Pappenheim became the owner of Hofmark Schwindegg. In 1591 Veit zu Pappenheim, who was born in Schwindegg, sold the property including the castle to the knight Sebastian von Haunsperg .

The closed four-wing building with corner towers and gate tower was built from 1594 to 1620 by Sebastian and his heir Ferdinand von Haunsperg on medieval foundations. The so-called Vorloss (former farmyard) with two stable wings from around 1750 and the castle park from the 19th century belong to the castle.

From 1816 the castle was owned by the von Moreau family. In 1851 the former manager Josef Fischer bought the castle. In 1912 it was taken over by the Kyffhäuserbund and the Bavarian Veterans and Warriors' Association and used as a rest home, later it was used as an SA leadership school. In 1945 it became the seat of the district hospital of the Mühldorf district. The castle has been privately owned since 1956 and is not open to the public. From 1959 to 1968 the Ursulines ran a home economics school here. The entire complex was converted in 1980 by Professor Franz Schilke into a condominium complex as part of a builders' association.

The mighty moated castle and the castle ensemble are well worth seeing. The most beautiful way to discover the character of the complex is to take a short walk, starting at the former castle restaurant, along the Goldach to the south and back around the nursing home of the Collegium Augustinum, on the sidewalk along Rimbachstraße. The buildings directly around the castle are also worth seeing, all of them stately, former residential or farm buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries, which belong to the protected castle ensemble.

Web links

Commons : Schwindegg Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Chronicle of Schwindegg Castle

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günther Vorbach: Schwindegg Castle
2. ^ Historical lexicon of Bavaria : Fraunhofen, noble family

Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 17 ″  N , 12 ° 15 ′ 26 ″  E