Lock high castle is appropriate for the surface-moderately largest municipality of the Free State of Bavaria in close proximity to Lenggries (Upper Bavaria).

Building history

Owner

Ferdinand Johann count to Herwart from Augsburger an aristocracy family decided 1718 for the building of a powerful, dreigeschossigen lock. Two wings enclose an honour yard.

new owner

Prince Karl Emich to Leiningen (* 12 September 1804, "† 13 November 1856) acquired 1836 the lock together with extensive landed property. He was inspired hunter and removed himself an extensive hunting ground here. It let a again-gothical lock Waldleiningen nearly contemporaneous build in the Odenwald. Its nut/mother was in second marriage, after which death of its father Emich Carl prince to Leiningen in the year 1814, with which duke of Kent marries, whose only child was the later queen Victoria. Thus the new owner was a half brother of the Queen Victoria. It let the landscape and the parks in the English style put on.

Resale

Baron Carl von Eichthal acquired 1857 in the meantime a lock high castle for only 32,000 guldens, badly heruntergekommenes. Its father was Simon Aron baron von Eichthal (before times blessed man). Latter financed among other things the art purchases of the Crown Prince Ludwig I. and obtained Bavarian government loans at Greece. It was 1834 one the founder of the Bavarian hypotheken and exchange bank and joint founder of numerous railway AGs in the Kingdom of Bavaria. There the likewise ennobled son Carl bought the secularized monastery pc. Blasien in the Black Forest and operated a ammunition factory and a cotton spinning mill. The family was considered at that time as the family in the Grand Duchy of bathing.

Most well-known buyer - Adolf of wet outer because castle

In the year 1870 bought that, 1866 of Prussia from its duchy Hessen Nassau refugee, duke Adolf of wet outer because castle the lock and the extensive surrounding hunt area. Since 1866 Adolf pulled restlessly from relatives to relatives, bereiste preferably south Europe, signed a lease for a large hunting ground in center forest, until coincidentally this object was offered to him. On 26 February 1870 he signed the sales contract. On 9 December 1890 Adolf of wet outer because castle put its oath down as a Grand Duke of Luxembourg and the lock high castle became its constant winter residence. Only approx. 83 years later the lock was resold, only left up to then.

Family inheritance - successor to the throne William IV. (Luxembourg)

Still the William born as a hereditary prince von Hessen Nassau 1852 on lock Biebrich with Wiesbaden, already 1902 were assigned as a hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg the practice of the office business and became after the death of its father 1905 the fifth Grand Duke of Luxembourg. It got sick heavily and withdrew themselves ever more to lock high castle. 1908 became its catholic! Wife to the Regentin determines. According to death William IV on 25 February 1912 was determined on 15 June 1894 the born daughter to the heiress to the throne. The wife dead William IV. the regency took over the four months up to the majority, before she withdrew herself to the widow seat lock high castle.

Widow seat of the wife William IV. (Luxembourg)

Already in its will from 15 January 1908 by William IVTH (Luxembourg) expressly lock high castle was determined to the widow seat of his wife Maria Anna DO Carmo of Portugal. It lived, with interruptions, on the beginning of the century up to the outbreak of the Second World War in this lock. On 24 September 1939 it always left the lock high castle. Germany was in the war with allied armed forces. It went with the whole grossherzoglichen family into the protection of the USA. In a New Yorker hospital she deceased on 31 July 1942 at the age of 81 years at the consequences of an operation.

After end of the Second World War general George S. Patton returned the property to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and/or to the Grand Duchess Charlotte.

today's use

On 3 October 1953 the passing on takes place to the sisters of the Ursulinenklosters St.Josef in land hat. The convention opens here a pure girl central and domestic science school. 1990 take over the ore diocese Munich and freesing the pc. Ursula schools. 2003 returns the Hohenburger sisters to land hat.

Related links

• Website Ursulinen monastery land hat
• Website St.Ursula schools

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