Immenstadt City Palace

The Immenstadt City Palace

The Immenstadt City Palace is a castle in Immenstadt in the Allgäu . It was the residential palace of the Counts of Königsegg-Rothenfels until 1804 .

history

The city palace was built from 1550 by Hugo von Montfort-Rothenfels , the last imperial count of Montfort-Rothenfels as a council or office building. Under Georg zu Königsegg , the building was expanded into a palace from 1595 to 1620. In 1746 the west wing was built, which was demolished in 1973. The county of Königsegg-Rothenfels of Franz Fidel von Königsegg-Rothenfels came to Austria in 1804 , which in return received goods in Austria and Hungary . As early as December 16, 1805, the Peace of Bratislava made it part of the Kingdom of Bavaria . The city palace then became the seat of a kb regional or local court . On January 1, 1970, the Immenstadt District Court was repealed. In 2005 the city of Immenstadt acquired the castle building from the Free State of Bavaria . Today it is privately owned.

Building description

The castle is a three-storey three-wing complex with a gable or hipped roof and bay windows with hooded roofs. The east wing was built around 1550 and changed from 1604 to 1620. The south wing dates from the 17th / 18th centuries. Century, the now demolished west wing from 1746.

Web links

History of the Immenstadt City Palace , accessed on May 7, 2016.

Individual evidence

^ Max Spindler, Andreas Kraus: History of Swabia up to the end of the 18th century. (= Handbook of Bavarian History. Volume 3: Franconia, Swabia, Upper Palatinate up to the end of the 18th century. ) Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-39452-3 , pp. 384f.
↑ Law on the repeal of local courts and the amendment of local court districts of June 24, 1969 (GVBl. P. 148)
↑ Bernd-Peter Schaul: Swabia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52398-8 .

Web links

Commons : Stadtschloss Immenstadt - collection of images, videos and audio files

47.559974 10.218747Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 35.9 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 7.5 ″ E

[1] Max Spindler, Andreas Kraus: History of Swabia up to the end of the 18th century. (= Handbook of Bavarian History. Volume 3: Franconia, Swabia, Upper Palatinate up to the end of the 18th century. ) Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-39452-3 , pp. 384f.

[2] Law on the repeal of local courts and the amendment of local court districts of June 24, 1969 (GVBl. P. 148)

[3] Bernd-Peter Schaul: Swabia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52398-8 .