Tillyhaus (Ingolstadt)

The Tilly House

The Tillyhaus is a listed secular building in Ingolstadt , the name of which recalls the Bavarian general Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly who died there during the Thirty Years War .

Building description and current use

The three-storey baroque building was built in 1710 through renovation including the older outer walls. The richly designed tail gable of the saddle roof points to Johannesstrasse. On the same side there is a box bay window on the first floor , and a three-storey arcade was built on the courtyard side . The outer wall is adorned with a coat of arms cartouche and framed donor inscription (re. 1600) as well as a memorial plaque for the Bavarian general Tilly, who died in the previous building in 1632. The building, located at Neubaustraße 2, was used as the state education office until 2018 and now houses the municipal office for fire and disaster control .

Tilly's death

Medal for the death of Tilly with inscription on the reverse: "The Church Sword and Shield - Ingolstadt 1632" ( HGM )

On April 15, 1632, during the Battle of Rain am Lech , Tilly's right thigh was shattered by an arquebus ball while defending the Lech crossing against the numerically superior Swedish army . Tilly's troops withdrew to the heavily fortified Ingolstadt, where the seriously wounded man was housed in today's Tillyhaus. The injury resulted in inflammation of the bone marrow , which Tilly succumbed to on April 30, 1632. Sweden King Gustav Adolf had to unsuccessfully lift the siege of Ingolstadt and fell six months later in the battle of Lützen . Tilly's body was first buried in the Ingolstadt Jesuit Church and finally transferred to Altötting in 1652 .

Web links

Commons : Tillyhaus (Ingolstadt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Tillyhaus (No. D-1-61-000-306) in the list of monuments for Ingolstadt (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
• Website of the state education authority in Ingolstadt zu Tilly death

Footnotes

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation : List of Ingolstadt Architectural Monuments , p. 42
2. ↑ Marcus Junkelmann , Historical Association Alt-Tilly u. a .: "Who taught my hands war": Tilly - saint or war criminal? Altötting 2007 (publication accompanying the exhibition of the same name by the Historical Association Alt-Tilly and the Bavarian Army Museum in Altötting, May 1 to July 30, 2007), p. 38

Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 57 ″  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 15 ″  E