Seyfriedsberg Castle

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Seyfriedsberg
Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 28 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 32 ″  E
Residents : 8  (1987)
Postal code : 86473
Area code : 08284
Seyfriedsberg Castle, postcard by Eugen Felle (1869–1934)
Look into the forecourt
Princely Crypt

The Seyfriedsberg Castle (Seifriedsberg) is a district of Ziemetshausen in the Swabian district of Günzburg .

It is located three kilometers south of Ziemetshausen and consists of a three-story main building and a side wing built at right angles. The main building and the driveway are connected by a wall with a tiled gable roof, creating a closed courtyard. The princely crypt, provided with the alliance coat of arms of the princely families Oettingen-Wallerstein and Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst , is located 500 meters east of the castle.

history

The Veste Seyfriedsberg was first mentioned on April 4, 1251 as the seat of the Hohenstaufen ministerial Konrad Spannagel. The name may be traced back to the name Siegfried, which was repeatedly documented in the Spannagel / von Hattenberg family. As a result, the property was initially named Sifritspurc or Sifritsperc , from which the current name developed. Probably around 1280 the margraviate of Burgau was enfeoffed by the Habsburg King Rudolf I with Seyfriedsberg. On April 5, 1293, Margrave Heinrich II. Von Burgau and his Enkei Heinrich (III.) Sell Seyfriedsberg to Bishop Wolfhart von Augsburg. Around 1306 the rulership was again in the hands of the Habsburgs, who pledged it to the influential Ulm citizen Kunzelmann on the occasion of a loan deal and redeemed the Pfandbrief on July 13, 1312.

From 1529 to 1568, Carl Villinger von Schöneberg the Elder built the Seyfriedsberg Palace. At the beginning of the 17th century, Carl Villinger von Schöneberg had the Zwinger built and the palace gardens laid out. In 1628 the rule went to the treasurer and hunter of the margraviate of Burgau, Jakob de Saint Vincent. He had the south wing built with a gate passage in 1631. In November 1667 Ernst Graf zu Oettingen-Wallerstein took over Seyfriedsberg. After the Habsburgs terminated the pledge, Philipp Karl Graf von Öttingen-Wallerstein finally acquired the rulership for a large amount in 1751 as an Austrian (heritable) male fief.

In the centuries that followed, Seyfriedsberg Castle was repeatedly rebuilt and expanded. In 1810 the double arch of the castle bridge over the neck ditch was rebuilt. During its renovation in 1891, the abutment of the drawbridge of the medieval castle was found. A general renovation of the main building was carried out from 1838 to 1851: In 1846, several porches were built in place of the demolished farm buildings. These consist of the two-storey north-west wing, the so-called library with an octagonal tower and pointed roof, and the decision-making building on the south-west side. The forecourt is completed by the prince's building and the gardener's house on the north side and by the caretaker's house and a wall to the steeply sloping building on the south side.

In 1848 Karl Anselm Prince zu Oettingen-Wallerstein had a forest-botanical park laid out in front of the castle, in which bushes and trees from all over the world were planted. The natural monument is freely accessible to interested parties all year round.

Monument to Prince Karl, who had the palace park laid out

In 1945 French troops looted the castle.

Some of the valuable holdings in the castle library were sold in the antiquarian trade.

After the Oettingen-Wallerstein house had been on Seyfriedsberg for almost 350 years, the castle with a small part of the extensive land was sold in 2016 to four private owners from the Augsburg-based Impuls-Finanzmanagement AG. The buildings were offered as a film set until 2019. At the end of 2019 it became known that the German diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in Germany intends to acquire the castle as a replacement for its monastery of St. Job von Pochayev in the Munich district of Obermenzing, which had been in existence since the end of World War II , the building of which is in dire need of renovation. The beautiful castle park with the forest botanical rarities of the arboretum is still open to visitors. The largest part of the property belonging to the castle with around 1,150 hectares, mainly forest, is owned by the family of SAP co-founder Klaus Tschira, who died in 2015 .

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Panoramic picture of Seyfriedsberg Castle, viewed from the east

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freybourg: Castles and ruins in Bavarian Mittelschwaben. Volume 1: District of Günzburg. 1989, p. 88.
  2. ↑ http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/3560461/
  3. ↑ https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/krumbach/Fuer-Schloss-Seyfriedsberg- geht-der-Dornroeschenschlaf-weiter- id40904226.html
  4. ↑ https://www.bayern.by/drehort/schloss-seyfriedsberg/
  5. ↑ https://ol.wittich.de/titel/2198/ausgabe/12/2019/artikel/00000000000020152021-OL-2198-2019-51-12-0

literature

  • Werner Freybourg: Palaces, castles and ruins in Bavarian Central Swabia. Volume 1: District of Günzburg. Selbstverlag, Krumbach 1989, pp. 88-91.
  • Philipp Jedelhauser: Articles on the beginning and end of the rule of the Burgau margraves from the Berg family, second revised edition, Krumbach 2017, p. 9f.
  • Antonius von Steichele, Alfred Schröder: The Diocese of Augsburg, Volume 5, Augsburg 1895, pp. 796–811.
  • Bernt von Hagen, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Günzburg, from the series Monuments in Bavaria, Volume VII. 91/1, Munich 2009, pp. 526-529.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Seyfriedsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files