Tutzing Castle

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View of Tutzing Castle by M. Wening, around 1700
Main building of the castle today

The Tutzing Castle is an important protected monument complex of the Tutzing market , Starnberg district , which consists of a former Hofmarkschloss which has been rebuilt many times and which was given its present form at the beginning of the 19th century; An English garden was also built around the castle in the 19th century, which has been used as the Evangelical Academy Tutzing since 1947 . Their task is to hold conferences, seminars and scientific colloquia. The protected monument complex with all its different components is registered under number D-1-88-141-33 in the list of monuments of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

history

The area around Tutzing is old settlements and therefore already settled in prehistory and early history as well as in Roman times. Also Baiuvarii conquest and colonization go forward to the 6th century. Chr. Back, because the name "Tutzing" is probably with a family Tozzi or Tuzzo from the noble Huosi together. This suggests that the place existed as early as the 6th century.

Ort and Hofmark Tutzing

In 742 the place was mentioned for the first time when a document was donated to the Benediktbeuern monastery . In the 11th century, a chronicle of this monastery named the place “ Dutcingun ” among the donations to the monastery. At that time the castle consisted of a courtyard, a mill and 6 Huben (half courtyards).

After the "Tuzzinger" family died out, the Munich patrician family of the Dichtl acquired the place and with it the permanent seat around 1480 at the end of the Middle Ages . In 1519 Bernhard the Elder Dichtl was granted court justice over Tutzing by the Duke of Bavaria . As a lord of the castle, he was allowed to raise taxes from his subjects and exercise lower jurisdiction. This small Hofmark, whose authorities ruled from the palace, existed for more than three centuries - until the revolutionary year of 1848 . The castle itself didn't really deserve this name. Rather, it was initially just a square, gloomy, forbidding building, which was surrounded by a circular wall and a moat. The architects of the time spoke of a residential tower .

During the Thirty Years' War the Hofmark Tutzing was badly hit by Swedish and Imperial Spanish troops. Between 1632 and 1634 the castle, parish church, brewery, farm tavern and some properties burned down. In the last third of the 17th century, the palace was rebuilt under the reign of the nobleman Maximilian von Götzengrien. An extension to the west was added to the main wing of the palace, but contemporaries at the time judged the building to be “clumsy” with a “gloomy and sad” looking interior.

Building history since 1803

South side of the cavalier or farm buildings
Pillar pergola on Lake Starnberg
Entrance to the ballroom with sculptures "Bacchus" and "Ariadne"

From 1731 to 1869 Tutzing belonged to the Viereggs , a family of counts from Mecklenburg. In particular, Count Friedrich von Vieregg owes the Tutzing Palace a generous redesign, which took place between 1802 and 1816. The old castle received side wings in the east and west, so that today's characteristic horseshoe-shaped building was created in the classical style. There was also today's music hall and the “Kavaliersbau” in front of the palace (today's office and business premises) with the front courtyard. The castle park was converted into an English landscape garden. An English garden was built on the two-hectare property around 1840, which was expanded and redesigned by Carl von Effner in 1870 .

The Hallberg era followed the era of the Viereggs. Between 1869 and 1880, Tutzing Palace and Park became the property of the Stuttgart publisher Eduard von Hallberger , who redesigned this place into a luxurious meeting place for the literary world and the upper classes. On the lakeshore he had the lake terrace and the columned pergola built.

The Hallberg heirs did not manage to keep the property. In 1921, the art collector and art dealer Marcel von Nemes acquired Tutzing Castle, whose fantasy coat of arms is placed above the castle gate. During a renovation, a central project in front of the lake facade was replaced in 1921/1922 by a three-axis portico, which ends on the first floor with the balustrade of a balcony. And also in 1922, the hall, built as a palm house in 1802, was converted into a ballroom with a coffered ceiling based on the Italian model. Most of what today attracts the attention of art lovers in the palace and park comes from the Nemes era. Marcel von Nemes died in 1930.

The Hackelsberger family owned the castle during the Third Reich. A memorial plaque in the inner courtyard commemorates the industrialist and Catholic center politician Albert Hackelsberger , who died in 1940 in Gestapo custody.

In the 1940s, Tutzing Castle belonged to the Kaselowsky and Oetker families from Bielefeld . From 1947 they left it to the Inner Mission as a rest home for those returning from the war. In 1949, Regional Bishop Hans Meiser bought the property for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. Since then, the Tutzing Castle, steeped in tradition, has served the Evangelical Academy Tutzing as a place of work.

The circular building of the auditorium with its circular arrangement of the rows of seats was created in 1959 by Olaf Andreas Gulbransson as the conference hall of the academy , which is intended to promote dialogue and discourse. In 1981, Hans-Busso von Busse built the light wood and glass architecture of the restaurant.

Numerous works of art, some of them from the collection of the art dealer Marcel von Nemes, who owned the castle until 1930, decorate the rooms and the park of the castle. Only the "Garatshauser Kreuz", a crucifix from the early 16th century in the palace chapel, has a local provenance.

Evangelical Academy Tutzing

The Evangelical Academy has been housed in the palace and its outbuildings since 1947. It has been led by the theologian Udo Hahn since 2011 . Several study leaders organize the conferences with him. A total of around 90 conferences with around 12,000 conference participants are organized and carried out each year. The academy is financed primarily from church tax funds from the Evangelical Lutheran Church as well as participation fees and third-party grants. Most of the events take place in the castle.

  • Entrance to the academy

  • Gate reception to the academy

  • Gate to the courtyard

  • Barred window

  • Stairs in the castle

  • A salon in the castle

  • Salon with chandelier

  • Remembering the death of Hackelsberger

  • Jetty on Lake Starnberg

Monument complex

Neo-baroque lake shore terrace
Castle chapel - altar

Tutzing Castle is a diverse monument complex, which consists of the following building and garden parts:

  • Main building, three-storey three-wing building with hipped roofs, through the conversion of a baroque complex built in 1693–96 and the remains of a previous building by Thomas Ganseck for Friedrich Joseph Graf von Vieregg, 1802–16, conversion 1921/22; with equipment
  • Chapel in the northwest side wing, with furnishings
  • Cavalier and farm building, in front of the main building to the north and encompassing the forecourt on two sides, two-storey saddle roof building, western part 1663–96, eastern part from 1802, partly changed later
  • Festival or music hall, north-west of the main building, one-storey neo-renaissance building with attached balustrade, built as a garden menagerie from 1802, converted into a palm garden in 1870 and into a festival hall in 1922
  • Lecture hall on a circular floor plan with foyer and atrium, by Olaf Andreas Gulbransson, 1958/59
  • "Bathing Nymph" fountain in the courtyard, by Georg Bersch, 1874
  • Park in the English garden style, expanded and redesigned by Karl Effner around 1840, 1870
  • Pavilion, probably around 1840, redesigned around 1870
  • Neo-Baroque lake terrace, pergola on the shore
  • Two caryatids, by Kaspar von Zumbusch, 3rd quarter of the 19th century
  • Erected Roman and Romanesque finds and garden figures from the 18th and 19th centuries. Century
  • Park wall, 17. – 19. century
  • Barrier chains between iron posts in front of the main entrance, probably around 1870
  • Schlossstrasse-Allee, 19th century.

He is registered under the monument number D-1-88-141-33 in the list of architectural monuments in Tutzing of the BLfD.

literature

  • Gerhard Schober: Castles in the Fünfseenland. Bavarian aristocratic residences around Lake Starnberg and Lake Ammersee. Oreos-Verlag, Waakirchen 2005, ISBN 3-923657-83-8 .
  • Municipality of Tutzing (Ed. :) Hofmark Tutzing - history in twelve centuries . St. Ottilien 1985.
  • Klaus-Jürgen Roepke (Ed.): Castle and Academy Tutzing. Munich 1986.
  • Udo Hahn : Castle and Evangelical Academy Tutzing , (= Großer Kunstführer 280), Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2014.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Castle history , accessed on March 10, 2017
  2. ^ Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, retrieved from the Bavarian Historical Lexicon on March 9, 2017

Coordinates: 47 ° 57 ′ 31.5 ″  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 47 ″  E