Wallerstein Castle

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South wing of the castle
Eastern front of the castle
Riding arena, built on the model of the Vienna Riding School
Historical park regulations board

Wallerstein Castle is a three-wing complex with a clearly structured classical facade. It is located in the Wallerstein market in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries . The castle is owned by the Oettingen-Wallerstein family .

history

In the autumn of 1803, Princess Wilhelmine zu Oettingen-Wallerstein appointed Johann Melchior Hochstatter as her building director, who was to combine the lower residence with its four buildings into a castle:

“It started in the spring of 1805 with the two buildings on the south side, with the Green House and the Welschen Bau . Their floor plans of different widths can still be read today from the setback of the south front west of the stairwell ... The suites of rooms on the two upper floors, however, whose windows all face the castle courtyard and thus to the north, were certainly part of the new building concept: in a correspondingly raised opposite on the north side of the courtyard the rooms would have been facing the sun. But when the south wing was nearing completion at the end of 1805, the end of the Old Kingdom came with the Peace of Pressburg, the incorporation into the Kingdom of Bavaria came ... For a mediatized prince, however, what had been built at the residential palace in Wallerstein had to suffice. So the expansion of the residence remained unfinished. "

Part of the palace complex is an English-style courtyard garden, which is no longer accessible to the public and which essentially goes back to a plan by Michael Anton Koch from 1826. In the Hofgarten there is still the riding school, built based on the model of the Vienna Riding School , with a museum for car and horse riding, the hunting lodge, the tea house (once a greenhouse) and the Moritzschlösschen , built in the early 19th century .

On request, Wallerstein Castle and the originally furnished living rooms (dining room with porcelain collection, salons, bedroom, uniform room, ballroom, etc.) can be viewed and rented for private events.

literature

  • Volker von Volckamer: From the land of the counts and princes of Oettingen. Calendar pictures and calendar stories, Wallerstein 1995

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information page on Wallerstein Castle , accessed on August 24, 2020.
  2. ↑ Volker von Volckamer: From the land of the counts and princes of Oettingen. Calendar pictures and calendar stories, Wallerstein 1995, p. 451 f
  3. ↑ Photos of the Riding School, Wallerstein - Globopix
  4. ↑ Photos Jagdschloss, Wallerstein - Globopix
  5. ↑ Photos Moritzschlösschen, Wallerstein - Globopix

Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 19.7 ″  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 13.9 ″  E