Tüßling Castle

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Tüßling Castle

The Tüßling Castle is located at 90 kilometers east of Munich, the market Tüßling in Upper Bavaria district Altoetting . It is located on the edge of the town center. As Hofmarkschloss , it was the manor of the closed Hofmark Tüßling. The property was added to the Altötting district's list of monuments with property number: D-1-71-133-6 .

Exterior architecture of the Tüßlinger Schloss

Tüßling Castle (around 1900)

Tüßling Castle, which with its regular four-wing floor plan , its four octagonal corner towers with closing onion domes has all the characteristics of the developed Renaissance castle, with its courtyard surrounded by arcades on three floors can be regarded as a prime example of an Alpine type of the "four-wing complex with arcaded courtyard". Tüßling was once a moated castle and is still surrounded by a moat today.

In order to maintain the unified character, wells were in the facades to structure, aeration and an ornament of the palace pop-up window let in.

Tüßling Castle after an etching by Michael Wening from 1721

The castle was built from 1581 to 1583 by order of Johann Veith Graf von Toerring , despite fire damage in 1712 and baroque fixtures, it has retained its exterior character unchanged.

Inner courtyard of the four-wing complex

The most charming part of the palace is the inner courtyard, which has six arcades on each side. While the ground floor has rough stone columns made of granite , slender Tuscan columns on baluster pillars were used on the upper floors . The loggias on the two upper floors on the north and south sides were later closed.

The arcade as a connecting path in the courtyard was, simply as an open gallery on consoles or over arcades, a component that was popular in early Renaissance buildings. The need to have continuous corridors on the upper floors of castles with several residential floors led to the expansion and expansion of this principle over all floors and on all fronts in the case of multi-wing systems, so that courtyards were finally created that were surrounded by multi-floor arcades. This design was mainly used in the Alpine countries.

Exterior view of the facade

East facade
red and white main portal, stone bridge and dry moat

The facades of Schloss Tüßling were badly weathered and, after the modernization phase, were completely plastered in the sgraffito style and reconstructed in their traditional design based on existing remains and photos. Sgraffito is a mural painting technique in which lines and surfaces are cut or scratched into layers of plaster of different colors placed one on top of the other. The color scheme has been restored from views of the late 18th century and based on findings on the building, is kept in white and forms a contrast to the coral-red roof, the surrounding yellow farm buildings, cavalier houses and stables and the green park.

The large red and white main portal takes up the east wing: the old curved stone bridge still leads over the now dried up moat.

Building description

Much has changed in the appearance of the Tüßling Castle premises in recent years. There are still so-called salon rooms that are painted in yellow, blue, red or green. According to tradition, castles, including their inventory and furnishings, were sold and acquired; so also Tüßling. For this reason, the castle still houses cultural and historical treasures today.

After the fire of 1712, Ferdinand Marquard Joseph Graf von Wartenberg had the north wing redesigned in 1725 into a 340 square meter ballroom with eight window axes. The undivided window pillars are covered with Régence stucco. There are ideal landscape portraits above the windows. The mirror vault rests on a console cornice. The coats of arms of the builder and his wife Maria Johanna Baptista de Melun are on its narrow sides.

The St. Vitus Castle Chapel in the east wing of Tüßlinger Castle dates back to the 17th century. Its interior was completely renovated in 1712 after a fire. In the 1960s, a Romanesque stone altar was found here under the baroque altar. Two precious reliquary boxes originally belonged to the inventory of this chapel, they are now in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. Both worked in the pit smelting technique in Limoges and probably in the 12th / 13th centuries. Century originated.

The changing owners

Economy building from the market square

Since it was built, Tüßling Castle has been owned by the Counts of Toerring . In 1659 Tüßling Castle fell to the Counts of Wartenberg . In 1731 the von Haßlangs married in Tüßling, a family that particularly promoted culture and science. During this time, the north wing was expanded into a baroque ballroom. Johann Anton Freiherr Mandl von Deutenhofen acquired the Tüßling rule in 1806, which was then inherited in 1895 by Baron Adolph von Peckenzell . Finally, Alfred Michel , who was raised to the Bavarian aristocracy and baron status on December 21, 1905 (enrolled January 11, 1906), and his wife Hertha, née Countess Wolffskeel von Reichenberg , bought the property in 1905. The Michel family had to vacate the building after the Second World War on the instructions of the US occupation government . The property was used by the German Caritas Association as an old people's home until 1958 , after which it was again owned by the Michel von Tüßling family. Since the death of her father, Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling , Stephanie von Pfuel has been the sole owner of Gut and Schloss Tüßling.

Modernization and repairs

After the retirement home moved out in 1958, the palace was in a catastrophic structural condition, whereupon Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling had twenty of the ninety rooms restored by 1968. After his death in 1991, his daughter, Stephanie von Pfuel, initiated a general renovation, financed from private funds. Approx. 400,000 roof tiles were renewed, the beams and the external plaster were renovated, damp spots in the masonry of the former moated castle were drained and old friezes were exposed again. Stephanie von Pfuel reported to the Alt-Neuöttinger Anzeiger:

“I was […] curious to see what would come out again when we remove the plaster. Because the massive brick masonry showed walled-up windows, arches or other alterations in the architecture where no one would have suspected. Especially after the Second World War, when the Americans requisitioned the castle, and in the years that followed, when part of the castle was used as an old people's home, many building sins were committed by installing a lot of concrete. "

The nursing home operator had raised walls with mortar and cement, destroyed stucco reliefs on ceilings, divided rooms and installed toilets and sinks. The monument protection requirements were high. When it was built between 1581 and 1583, no one thought of baths, cables for electricity or central heating. The craftsmen and restorers had to be full of ideas to find possibilities for the necessary lines: today, heating pipes are hidden behind carpet strips and the power lines run in the cavities of the thick stucco ceilings. In 1997, the owner of the Tüßlinger Schloss was awarded the "Culture Prize of the Altötting District" for the modernization measures and the preservation of the Bavarian cultural heritage.

In spring 1997, the restoration of the garden hall in the north wing under the baroque ballroom with the rococo wood paneling began . This was in a very bad condition and infected with the sponge . A Polish art school was commissioned with the restoration. For the students, the project was considered a necessary internship. There was and does not exist a comparable institution in Germany. "The renovation of this hall alone devoured the purchase price of a new single-family house," the owner told Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk.

Todays use

Tüßling Castle is privately owned and not open to the public, guided tours and visits are not possible.

Events

A garden fair (around 30,000 visitors) has been held in the palace gardens every year since 2003. Open-air concerts (e.g. Joe Cocker , Peter Maffay , Elton John , Xavier Naidoo ), Christmas markets and opera performances are also very popular. The rooms and halls can be rented; Oliver Bierhoff and Klara Szalantzy , for example, celebrated their wedding on Tüßling.

Movie and TV

Schloss Tüßling is also used as a backdrop for film and photo shoots, including:

Documentation

literature

  • Franz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein: Castles in Bavaria . CH Beck, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-406-03492-6 , pp. 65–66 with figs. 37–44.
  • Werner Meyer: German castles, palaces and fortresses . Verlag Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-8035-1035-X .
  • Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 34 .
  • Jeannette Countess Beissel von Gymnich: Luxury Houses. Chateaux Castles Châteaux . teNeues, Kempen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8327-9173-5 .
  • Stephanie von Pfuel: If so, then already . LangenMüller, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7844-3115-4 (The owner of Schloss Tüßling describes in her autobiography how she turned a ruin into a fairytale castle.).

Web links

Commons : Schloss Tüßling  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preservation of monuments. ( Memento from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Altötting district.
  2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Freiherrliche Häuser, Volume XV, Limburg ad Lahn 1989, p. 359 ff.
  3. ↑ Stephanie von Pfuel, If already, because already, autobiography, LangenMüller, Munich, 2007, p. 11

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '48.1 "  N , 12 ° 35' 53.9"  E