Ummendorf Castle
The Ummendorf Castle is in the 16th century by the Augsburg patrician Matthias Manlich Castle built in Ummendorf near Biberach an der Riss .
The Augsburg-born merchant and imperial councilor Matthias Manlich bought the Ummendorf property from the Weißenau monastery in 1554 . Like many patricians, Matthias Manlich wanted to document his social position with the construction of a castle and thereby draw level with the rural nobility in order to create the conditions for advancement to the nobility. It can be assumed that Manlich began building the new castle a few years after buying Ummendorf. The results of a dating of the roof structure, which show that this part of the building was built around 1557/58, also indicate that construction began at this time. The time of completion of the building cannot be determined more precisely. Matthias Manlich died around 1563; When his heirs sold the castle to the Ochsenhausen monastery in 1565 , it was described as a "completely new, large house with a beautiful waterworks".
description
The multi-storey Renaissance building was an almost square building complex in the 16th century, with two slender round towers at the corners facing west. Matthias Manlich planned the Ummendorfer Castle with multiple wings and a three-part garden. Two side wings were built to the east of the castle and were demolished in the 19th century. The outer wall of the complex still surrounds the property and the surrounding garden. The baroque garden house, which was built onto the castle wall in 1739/40, stands on the western garden wall .
In the entrance hall on the ground floor there is an imposing vault that spans the entire room in its width. It is one of the most untouched and best preserved vaults in Upper Swabia. The floor plan on the first and second floors presents a standard floor plan that can be derived from the Renaissance palace. The roof also dates from the 16th century. It is a three-storey rafter roof with a so-called truss in the middle section .
In the 18th century, during the heyday of the Upper Swabian Baroque, the castle was heavily modified. In 1729/30 the name of the plasterer Gaspare Mohla (also Mola) appears in the books, who created the stucco ceiling on the first floor. The ceiling shows rich rocaille and bandwork ornaments with portrait heads and depictions of animals. The plasterer also produced the rich work in the Ochsenhausen monastery .
The garden around the castle should also have been laid out by Matthias Manlich. The walling of the site shows different construction phases. It is in large part a Wacken masonry can be seen on a thinner brick wall was set up only in the 17th century. The garden shows the triple division into tree, vegetable and pleasure garden, which is obligatory for Renaissance gardens.
The castle ensemble also includes today's column, named "Schloss Bäwle" in 1696/97, which is directly adjacent to the east side of the wall. The structure of the pillar was changed several times: in 1737/38, in the 19th century, most recently in 2004.
history
Matthias Manlich did not see the completion of his property. His heirs sold the castle to the Ochsenhausen monastery in 1564. The property then served both as a summer and recreational residence and as a retirement home for abbots and prelates .
Between 1618 and 1632 the castle served as a " high school " for the Benedictine students. Abbot Bartholomäus Ehinger issued a separate Konvikts ordinance for the school.
From 1829 the castle served as an official residence for the Catholic priest. In 1880, Prelate Engelbert Hofele moved into the castle and had it renovated.
Between 1943 and 1945, the castle served as a branch of the Institute for Practical Mathematics and the Physical Institute of the Technical University of Aachen. An analog computer from the Askania company in Berlin, which was optimized under Robert Sauer , was housed in the castle. The subject of physical research was, among other things, the reduction in drag and the calculation of flow conditions for the construction of the "adder" .
Today the castle is the cultural center of the Ummendorf community. The Biberach University of Applied Sciences uses the rooms for special occasions.
literature
- Gerhard Seibold: The Manlich. History of an Augsburg merchant family . J. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-6945-6 .
- Ummendorf municipality; Property and construction Baden-Württemberg, State Palaces and Gardens Department: 450 years of Ummendorf Castle . Staatsanzeiger Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-929981-75-9 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Swiss Institute for Art Research: Mola, Gasparo (Gaspare). In: SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland. September 14, 2011, accessed on August 28, 2014 (German / Italian).
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '43.9 " N , 9 ° 49' 49.3" E