Zinneberg Castle

Michael Wening : the "Zinnenberg Castle" around 1705

Zinneberg Castle is a castle in Zinneberg, a part of the municipality of Glonn in the Ebersberg district . It is located on the eastern edge of the village on the protruding nose of the eponymous Zinneberg and can only be guessed at behind the dense tree cover. The Order of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd runs a youth welfare facility here . The castle is a listed building (number D-1-75-121-49).

history

Zinneberg Castle on a painting

The castle of the local noble family "da Glana", which presumably dates back to the 11th century, was only mentioned in 1332 as "Zinneberg" in a deed of donation to the noble family Preysing . In 1350 Otto von Pienzenau became lord of the castle on Zinneberg by marriage. Warmundt von Pienzenau died in 1596 without a male heir. His wife Anna von Pienzenau married Count Konstantin Fugger von Kirchberg and Weißenhorn in the same year . Zinneberg remained in the hands of the Fuggers for the next 230 years. In 1632, during the Thirty Years' War , Zinneberg Castle was burned down. From this time comes the legend that (to this day) there was a secret passage between the castle and the place through which the residents could get to safety. Count Johannes Friedrich Fugger had the palace rebuilt as early as 1640.

In 1825 the Bavarian elector's widow Maria Leopoldine , married Countess Arco , bought the castle and from 1827 had Leo von Klenze remodel it to suit her taste. After Maria Leopoldine's death in 1848, her son Maximilian von Arco-Zinneberg sold the property in 1850 to the Marchese Fabio Pallavicini , former Sardinian ambassador to the Bavarian court and brother of his brother Aloys Nikolaus's wife . Pallavicini sold Zinneberg in 1868 to the doctor Friedrich Wilhelm von Scanzoni . In 1898, Adolf Freiherr von Büsing-Orville bought the castle from his son Albert von Scanzoni. Baron von Büsing-Orville commissioned further extensions by Friedrich von Thiersch , which give the castle a feudal character to this day. During the Depression , the goods for 735,000 Reichsmarks became the property of the Good Shepherd Sisters on September 14, 1927 . Partially burned down in 1938, the damage was repaired after 1938.

use

During the First World War , part of the palace was already functioning as a hospital . In 1927, the Order of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd acquired Zinneberg and used it as a reformatory. After the outbreak of the Second World War, the building of the educational home was temporarily confiscated as a reserve hospital of the Wehrmacht . During the Cold War , an underground bunker was built, which was intended as a stationary auxiliary hospital . The castle now serves as a youth welfare facility for girls from difficult backgrounds under the auspices of the order and also houses a kindergarten.

Building description

The multi-wing castle complex on a mountain spur, formerly with farm buildings and a brewery, is a new building after being destroyed in 1632. According to the list of monuments, it includes:

• Castle building, elongated two-storey hipped roof building with a three-storey central projection and plaster structure, largely new building probably by Leo von Klenze , 1st half of the 19th century, partially renewed by Friedrich von Thiersch in 1904/5.
• Part of the building of the former castle complex, three-storey plastered building with a steep pitched roof, late medieval core , new building 1640, historicizing changes by Friedrich von Thiersch around 1905.
• Former brewery, two-storey hipped roof building with a transverse gate passage, 1st half of the 19th century, remodeling by Friedrich von Thiersch around 1905.
• Orangery , single-storey solid building with glass front, flat roof and roof balustrade, in neo-baroque shapes by Friedrich von Thiersch, 1904.
• Park in the style of an English landscape garden, south and north of the palace, after 1811.
• Garden pavilion , polygonal column construction with bell roof, around 1900.
• Chapel , small open timber building with barrel vault, early 20th century.
• Fountain, round water basin with tuff stones, first half of the 19th century.
• Crucifix, life-size body under a neo-baroque sheet metal roof, early 20th century.
• Part of the former enclosure with a balustrade and curved Gothic gate, medieval and around 1905.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Wilhelm Neu, Volker Liedke: Upper Bavaria . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52392-9 .
2. ↑ Schloss Zinneberg in Glonn: When nuns do business , Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 2, 2015.
3. ↑ Auxiliary Hospital Schloss Zinneberg , on www.geschichtsspuren.de, accessed on May 23, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Zinneberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Castle history at www.schloss-zinneberg.de, accessed on May 23, 2016.

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '34.9 "  N , 11 ° 52' 50.8"  E