Wellenburg Castle
The Wellenburg Castle , also called Fugger Castle , located on a wooded spur high above the Wertach valley , is a castle in the Augsburg-Bergheim district that has been redesigned in the neo-Gothic style . It has been inhabited by the Fugger -Babenhausen family since 1595 and is not open to the public.
history
The Wellenburg already existed before the 13th century. Presumably it was in the possession of the episcopal chamberlain from Wellenburg. St. Radegundis was once a cattle girl at the castle.
In 1507 the castle, which had been destroyed and rebuilt several times, came through several Augsburg families - the Portner, Herwart, Langenmantel and Onsorg - to the Augsburg patrician son and cathedral provost Matthäus Lang , who was given the honorary title of Edler von Wellenburg by Maximilian I and later as Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg by the Pope Julius II received the cardinal dignity. He had a pleasure palace built there by 1513 , which he made available to the emperor:
- In 1530 festivals and tournaments in honor of Charles V took place in Wellenburg. Probably for this occasion a woodcut was made around 1536 ... with the earliest view of the castle, which at that time was a rectangular complex with a gable roof, four corner towers and a high stair tower, the substructure of which still exists today.
In 1595 Jakob Fugger III, owner of Babenhausen Castle , bought the Wellenburg Castle and the property belonging to it for 70,000 guilders and soon had the outer castle gate built by the Augsburg city master builder Elias Holl . By from the Bregenzerwald coming and in Gunzburg based builder Valerian Brenner were chapel of St. George on the ground floor of the main wing and the stables expanded. The respected Baroque master Hans Georg Mozart , great-great-uncle of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , was also involved in later renovations .
In 1857/1858 Prince Leopold Fugger-Babenhausen had the palace rebuilt and expanded in the neo-Gothic style. Which builder was responsible for this ( Georg von Stengel or Georg Gollwitzer come into question ) has not yet been determined in research.
Historically interesting is the St. Georg Castle Chapel, which, like the main wing of the castle, was built around 1513:
- It contains a large number of medieval sculptures. A life-size figure of George from the end of the 15th century and a crucifix from the first half of the 14th century should be emphasized. The neo-Gothic Altarmensa shows a wooden relief from around 1520: Christ carrying the cross. A pair of altar wings with St. Sebastian was dated by Ernst Bucher between 1460 and 1470 and included in the school of the 'Augsburg Master of the Ulrich legend'.
A two-kilometer-long avenue of around 350 linden trees , which was laid out in 1840, leads from Göggingen to Wellenburg Castle .
literature
- Nicole Riegel: The building activities of Cardinal Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg (1468-1540) , Münster (Westf.) 2009. ISBN 978-3-930454-75-4
- Petzet, Michael (Ed.): Monuments in Bavaria. Volume 85: 7, Swabia, free district towns . Lipp, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-1003-7 .
- Martin Kluger: The Fugger. The German Medici in and around Augsburg . Augsburg 2009, pp. 146-147.
- Wilhelm Neu, Frank Otten: Bavarian art monuments. Volume 30: District of Augsburg . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1970.
- Franz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein: Castles in Bavaria . Munich 1975, pp. 269-270.
- Wilfried Sponsel: Castles, palaces and residences in Bavarian Swabia . Typesetting and Graphics Partner, Augsburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-935438-54-4 , pp. 118-119 ( online ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ burgeninventar.de (archive version from November 10, 2006) ( Memento from November 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ st-radegundis.de , accessed on November 19, 2017.
- ↑ Sayn-Wittgenstein 1975, p. 269
- ↑ Sayn-Wittgenstein 1975, p. 269
- ↑ http://www.alleen-fan.de/Kampagne/Lieblingsalleen/Allee_49.html
Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 58.6 " N , 10 ° 49 ′ 36.7" E