Ismaning Castle

Ismaning Castle is a baroque castle within the village of Ismaning. Today it serves as the town hall of the municipality.

In 1530, Bishop Philipp von Freising acquired the Ismaning country estate from the Haushaimers, a Freising cathedral chapter family, and built a Renaissance castle with four towers. Between 1716 and 1724, Prince-Bishop Johann Franz Eckher undertook a baroque redesign of Ismaning Castle with significant contributions from Johann Baptist Zimmermann and master builder Dominik Gläsl. The secularization from 1802 ended the almost 500-year era of the Freising Prince-Bishops; the Prince-Bishopric of Freising was dissolved, and Ismaning thus became part of the Electorate of Bavaria. The castle and its furnishings were partially destroyed.

In 1816, Napoleon's stepson, Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, and his wife Auguste Amalia, daughter of Bavarian King Maximilian I, took over Ismaning Castle and had it redesigned in the Neoclassical style by Leo von Klenze. Auguste Amalia died in 1851, and the castle changed hands several times in the following decades. From 1899 to 1919, Ismaning Castle was owned by the City of Munich.

Since 1919, the castle has been owned by the municipality of Ismaning. From 1934, the town hall of the municipality has been located here, initially in a few rooms, and today in the entire building. Two noteworthy halls from the time of Auguste Amalia are still preserved.