CastleOttenhofen

Ottenhofen Castle

Ottenhofen Castle

Apartments

  • 1083 Ezzo von Ottenhofen first mentioned as owner of the Hofmark, in possession of the Lords of Ottenhofen until 1544
  • 1545 passed into the possession of Friedrich Esswurm
  • 1608 passed into the possession of Duke Wilhelm of Bavaria
  • 1611 passed into the possession of the Schrenk zu Egmating family (later Barons Schrenk zu Egmating)
  • from 1627 in possession of the Lords of Aham
  • from 1689 in possession of the Rivera family
  • from 1709 in possession of the Perusa family
  • 1760 construction of a tea pavilion
  • from 1821 to Baron Franz Josef de la Perous, construction of a fountain with a basin in which his son and heir drowned shortly thereafter, then 10 more owners mentioned
  • from 1892 in possession of Matthias Brenner, whose son Erwin sold the property to the Bayerische Landessiedlung, end of the Hofmark
  • from 1954 in possession of the municipality of Ottenhofen, then demolition of almost the entire castle except for the south wing of the formerly four-winged complex and release for development by single-family houses, conversion of the castle into apartments
  • inhabited until 2006, when parts of the cellar vault collapsed

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