Umkirch Castle

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Umkirch Castle

The Schloss Umkirch , even Hohenzollern Castle or Royal Romanian castle called, is a castle of the Swabian Hohenzollern in Umkirch in Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The old moated castle of the gentlemen give (left in the picture)
The Romanian King Charles I on the Umkirch estate

In the 14th century, stood on the site of today's castle Wasserburg the men enter . Among the various noble families who had their seat in Umkirch in the Middle Ages, the lords of Tübingen are believed to have lived in the castle in 1474. Members of the families Roggenbach and Beroldingen succeeded in their possession to increase before it in 1740 to the Kageneck 'sche primogeniture passed. After the old castle was demolished in 1743, the middle section was rebuilt. The two side wings followed between 1788 and 1789.

In 1785 the property was converted into an allod for Flora von Kageneck (1779-1857). She was the daughter of Friedrich von Kageneck and Maria Theresia von Salm-Reifferscheidt and the cousin of the Austrian statesman Metternich . Flora von Kageneck married Count Eugen von Wrbna on June 20, 1798 . In 1816/17 the castle was expanded in the Italian country house style and the belvedere was added . The coat of arms of the Kageneck-Wrbna can still be found in the gable.

In 1827 the palace was acquired by Grand Duchess Stéphanie von Baden for 345,000 guilders. The building served as a summer residence in July and August. In the inheritance contract of June 29, 1860, the Grand Duchess decreed that her daughter Princess Josephine von Baden should receive the castle property. The princess was the wife of Karl Anton von Hohenzollern . On May 3, 1887, Josephine made Umkirch an ancestral property, that is, an inalienable property. The property came on June 19, 1900 to her son Karl , who was the Romanian king . The king died in 1914. At the end of 1916, the castle went to Prince Friedrich Victor von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , who used it as a summer residence. The onset of World War I had delayed inheritance.

In addition to Friedrich Wilhelm von Hohenzollern (1924–2010), the two princes Ferfried von Hohenzollern and Leopold von Bayern were born in the palace in 1943 .

During the Second World War , from September 1944 to April 1945, the princely family was forced to be evacuated and interned at Wilflingen Castle . After the war, the south of Baden became part of the French occupation zone and General Pierre Pène resided in the castle as governor for the state of Baden on behalf of the French occupying forces from 1946 to 1952, so that Friedrich Wilhelm lived partly in his sister’s country house next door.

After Friedrich Victor's death in 1965, his son Friedrich Wilhelm received the castle property, which is still owned by the Swabian Hohenzollern . The owner has been Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern since 2010 .

Parks

Umkirch Castle located in the park
Castle park in Umkirch

The Fürstlich-Hohenzollern'sche Schlosspark Umkirch , which belongs to the castle, is a landscape park of around eleven hectares. To the south of the palace park is another park, which goes back to a donation of approximately eight hectares of land from Friedrich von Hohenzollern to Princess Auguste Viktoria von Hohenzollern . She was the wife of the last king of Portugal, Manuel II. She had a neo-baroque country house built there and named it Fulwell Park , after her exile in Fulwell in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames .

After Auguste Viktorias death, Fulwell-Park went back to Friedrich Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, who sold the park and palace. The now approximately eleven hectare complex is now called Queen Auguste Victoria Park . The park has been owned by the publisher Werner Semmler since 1974 and was awarded the European Garden Culture Creation Prize in 2002.

literature

  • Vinzenz Kremp, Josef Spinner: Umkircher local history . 1984
  • Stefan Auer: Creation of a park maintenance work for the palace of the Princely House of Hohenzollern in Umkirch near Freiburg . Thesis. University of Hanover, degree course in landscape and open space planning, 2003

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden: The art monuments of the districts of Breisach, Emmendingen, Ettenheim, Freiburg (Land), Neustadt, Staufen and Waldkirch (Freiburg Land district) , Mohr, Tübingen, etc. a. 1904, p. 360
  2. ↑ a b c d e f History of the Umkirch Castle Estate, queen-auguste-victoria-park.de, accessed on May 15, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Constantin von Wurzbach : Wrbna-Freudenthal, Flora Countess . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 58th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1889, p. 187 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Umkirch in the local lexicon of Baden-Württemberg ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / maja.bsz-bw.de
  5. ↑ Kati Wortelkamp: Umkirch: Der Erbprinz also cooks himself , Badische Zeitung, September 6, 2008, accessed on May 15, 2013
  6. ^ Stefan Tolksdorf: Culture: A work of art in green. Badische Zeitung, August 20, 2008, accessed on November 15, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Awards: European Culture Prize for park creator Werner Semmler. queen-auguste-victoria-park.de, accessed on November 15, 2016 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 50 ″  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 37 ″  E