Wolfegg Castle

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Panorama of Wolfegg Castle (2005)
Wolfegg Castle, portal
Wolfegg Castle inner courtyard (2005)
Wolfegg Castle Knight's Hall (2005)

The Wolfegg Castle is a Renaissance -Schloss in the town of Wolfegg in Upper Swabia . It is the ancestral seat of the Waldburg-Wolfegg noble family , and it is still in their possession today.

The main building of the castle consists of four wings, which are arranged in the shape of a rectangle together with four corner towers. The external shape of the current complex goes back to the steward Jakob II von Waldburg (1546–1589) and his wife Johanna (1548–1613), who had a new castle built towards the end of the 16th century, around 1578 by a fire in the fireplace to replace destroyed previous building. However, parts of this castle were destroyed in the Thirty Years' War in 1646 when Swedish troops under General Wrangel looted and set it on fire. Due to a lack of funds, reconstruction did not begin until 1651 and the interior redesign of the representative rooms was carried out by the sculptor and in 1691–1700Plasterer Balthasar Krimmer (1653–1702) from Wangen . In the middle of the 18th century, part of the interior was decorated in the Rococo style. In the late 19th century there were again major renovations, the furnishings of the dining rooms were adapted to the tastes of the time and the castle chapel was given a neo-Gothic appearance.

During the First World War , from August 28, 1914 to March 31, 1919, Wolfegg Castle was home to the Wolfegg Castle Club Hospital , a military hospital sponsored by the German Red Cross .

The castle is usually not open to the public, but guided tours are also offered as part of the annual concerts held in the castle. Particularly worth seeing is the baroque style knight's hall with 24 wooden sculptures and a large ceiling mirror.

The castle also houses the Waldburg-Wolfegg art collection , also known as the “Wolfegger Kabinett” .

The Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation named the Knight's Hall Monument of the Month for May 2016 .

literature

  • Hans Ulrich Rudolf (eds.), Berthold Büchele, Ursula Rückgauer: Places of rule and power - castles and palaces in the Ravensburg district . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0508-6 , pp. 449–454.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wolfegg Castle on the Wolfegg community website (accessed July 30, 2020)
  2. ↑ a b Lisa Zeitz: Large, small adhesive tape . Arsprototo , edition 4/2011
  3. ↑ Andrea Reidt, Werner Sonntag: Allgäu . Marco Polo Travel Guide (Dumont) 2005, ISBN 3829702833 , p. 38 ( excerpt from Google book search)
  4. ↑ http://denkmalstiftung-baden-wuerttemberg.de/rittersaal-wolfegg-ist-denkmal-des-monats-mai-2016/ (accessed May 27, 2016)

Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 22.5 "  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 30.1"  E