Zizenhausen Castle

The Castle Zizenhausen even Zizenhauser Castle called, is a castle in Zizenhausen , a district of Baden-Württemberg town of Stockach in Germany .

history

Postcard: Zizenhausen Castle 1909

In the town of Zizenhausen, mentioned in a document around the middle of the 15th century , a mansion was established towards the end of the 18th century . Until 1780 Zizenhausen consisted only of a courtyard, a mill, a brickworks and an ironworks that had already been set up in 1697 .

With the acquisition of the Zizenhausener Hof in 1781 by the bailiff and district judge of the Upper Austrian county of Nellenburg , Carl Anton von Krafft , known as Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, the industrialization of the place begins, combined with a strong increase in population. The new landlord of the free rule Zizenhausen had the castle built from 1785.

To 1840 in Krafft'schen of ownership, the basic rule is to Zizenhausen in the nearby domination Mühlingen resident Baron von Buol-Berenberg sold. The family continues to manage the property, but the castle is increasingly only inhabited by its owners in the summer months.

In September 1962 the castle was entered in the monument book.

Todays use

After being sold in 1936, it finally serves as the town hall. In the palace part of the can Zizenhausener terracottas , clay figurines from a manufactory of the 19th century be visited.

The late baroque , three-storey building with 7: 3 axes and a high hipped roof , a small bell tower and a triangular gable with a clock is surrounded by a farm building and the remains of a park-like facility.

literature

Kurt Schmid: Zizenhausen. The youngest municipality in the Landgraviate of Nellenburg . In: Stadt Stockach (Ed.): Hegau Library, No. 143 . Primo Verlag A. Stähle, Stockach 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-030815-4 .
Michael Losse and Hans Noll: castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau. Defense structures and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area . In: Hegau Library, No. 109 . Michael Greuter Verlag, Hilzingen 2006, ISBN 3-938566-05-1 .

Individual evidence

↑ Home chronicle . In: Hegau - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance . Self-published by the Hegau history association Singen e. V. Yearbook 1962, p. 362.

47.8739 9.0015Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '26 " N , 9 ° 0' 5.4" E

[1] Home chronicle . In: Hegau - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance . Self-published by the Hegau history association Singen e. V. Yearbook 1962, p. 362.