Lower Castle (Immendingen)

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Rear view of the castle

The Lower Castle , formerly von Reischach's Castle in Immendingen , was probably built in the 13th century. Today it belongs to the municipality of Immendingen and is used as a cultural center. The castle is named as a cultural monument according to §28 DSchG. It is part of the “Young Danube Landscape Park” project, within the framework of which the palace courtyard with a palace garden was created.

The building has an L-shaped floor plan. One side is the three-storey brick main building, the other a narrow two-storey extension, also bricked. In the corner of the two buildings is a spiral staircase tower with a pointed helmet that extends into the attic of the main building.

history

The castle, built in the 13th century, was a fief of the von Wartenberg family ; from 1321 it belonged to the Fürstenberg family . From 1340 it went to the hunter von Konzenberg. The Lower Castle was given to the hunters called Spätt in 1499 as a Kunkellehen .

From 1504 to 1834 it was owned by the von Reischach family , of whom the coat of arms - the boar's head - with the year 1608 is attached above the entrance, after which it belonged to the princes of Fürstenberg .

In 1878 the machine factory moved from the Upper Castle to the Lower Castle, which was Baden's first machine factory, built in 1835 . From 1899 to 1917 it belonged to the princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , after which it was owned by the Johann Georg Mehn family. The company continued to run this under the name "Jäckle-Mehne". Until 1989 the factory was run under the name "Immendinger Gießerei und Maschinenfabrik". The building served as the administration building for the factory, the workshops were in outbuildings.

After the bankruptcy of the company, the area was an industrial wasteland and was converted 2005 to 2014 through a reorganization of the community, which were also funded with state funds in a residential area, which also includes the Danube Park belongs. It has been owned by the Immendingen community since 2009. The INKGE-Verein (Natur-Kultur-Geschichte Immendingen e.V.) supports the renovation of the castle.

literature

  • Michael Losse , Hans Noll: castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau. Defense buildings and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area (= Hegau Library. Volume 109). Greuter, Hilzingen 2001, ISBN 978-3-938566-05-3 , p. 104.
  • Wolfgang Willig: Landadel palaces in Baden-Württemberg. A cultural-historical search for traces W. Willig, Balingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813887-0-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Young Danube Landscape Park IMM02-UP
  2. ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Monument Preservation Database Building Research / Restoration Lower Castle
  3. ^ Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Constance district. Reprint of the 1887 edition. Salzwasser, 2013, ISBN 978-3-84609-250-7 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Monument Preservation Database Building Research / Restoration Lower Castle
  5. ↑ Commercial wasteland is now residential area , Jutta Freudig, Schwäbische Zeitung, November 4, 2014, accessed on January 8, 2019.

Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 16.3 ″  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 13 ″  E