Rose Island (Lake Starnberg)
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Rose Island ( until the 19th century Wörth ) is the only island in Lake Starnberg.
Rose Island is located 170 meters from the western shore of the lake in the Feldafinger Bay, at the height of the so-called bell web. The island is a district Wörth (lock) to the municipality Feldafing, landowner is the Free State of Bavaria. The population is ( for whom the island year-round dwelling gardener ) indicated by " 1".
Geology
The shape and size of the Rose Island is changing slowly but steadily through embankments and siltation. At the beginning of the 19th century, the island area was 1.3 hectares to 1.7 hectares in 1850, today it measures 2.56 hectares.
History
Underwater Archaeological finds a position located near the island in about 4 feet deep lake-dwelling could be ( that is, by reference to the dating of tree rings) dated to around 3720 BC dendrochronologically; thus demonstrating since the Stone Age Münchshöfen culture a human colonization of the Rose Island. It is a prehistoric lake dwellings of 111 that were included in the list of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage in 2011.
Other artifacts date from the period around 1700-1000 BC ( Early Bronze and urnfield time), then, the island served as a place of worship.
During construction work in the 19th century were discovered in the soil of the island on numerous human skeletons which were buried in the ground or in stone boxes, also was found flint weapons, pottery from different eras and from Roman times include coins, jewelry and appliances. In the 7th century pre-Romanesque ( Carolingian ) church was built of tufa with recessed choir on the island, of which, however, only the west wall and the foundations remain today (integrated and built over by the gardener's cottage from 1853 ). One can assume that these church already had a wooden predecessor.
In 1545 the island went through as a hereditary fief of Duke Wilhelm IV in the possession of the rose bush of Possenhofen who kept this island as they 1588 Hofmark Possenhofen sold. 1730 shared the last daughters of the rose bush family, the island among themselves. One half belonged to the Schattel family, the other of the de floor family. 1758 acquired Janson de floor and the Schattelsche half. About 1762 acquired Johann Kaspar Reichsgraf Basselet of La Rosee then the entire island or the then Hofmark Wörth together with the Hofmarken Feldafing and Possenhofen and so had the largest enclosed area on the shore Würmsee ( Lake Starnberg ). His grandson, the former Councilor Joseph Desiderius Reichsgraf Basselet of La Rosee, who had mostly lived on the island, died childless in 1834, then his heirs sold the entire estate to Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, King Ludwig I received the island of Wörth.
The poet Lawrence Westenrieder expressed in terms of the romantic quality of the island already in 1800: " ... large enough would be the island therein to bury any grief, even large enough to hold two hearts, which is now in the sweetest and happiest crush their souls require nothing but itself and wish nothing but bushes to hide her happiness in the eyes of envy. "
In the early 19th century was the island still bears the name Wörth and was one of the local fishing family in Feldafing ball Miller ( today Müller ball ), which operated a guest house there. Since 1840, the later King Maximilian II of Bavaria had his eye on the island. Initially he planned to establish there the seat of his study Maximilianeum Foundation, which was but then housed in Munich. 1850 Finally, the king bought the island, now with the intention of there to create a calm summer home, and let them transform from the Potsdamer garden director Peter Joseph and the engineer Franz Jakob Kreuter. The result was until 1853 a Pompeian - Bavarian Casino ( in the meaning of a seasonal summer house used ) in the middle of a park with an oval rose garden as the center. The rose garden with hundreds of tall fragrant roses and a five -meter-high, blue - white glass column at its center gave the island its current name.
The son of Maximilian Ludwig II, took advantage of the secluded place for the reception of heads of state and other guests as the Russian Empress Maria Alexandrovna and Richard Wagner. Ludwig estimated the island as a place for discreet meetings with minions, and also with his imperial cousin Elizabeth he met occasionally together.
"Sissi" knew the area well, she had spent much of her youth in the nearby castle Possenhofen and came later for many years in the summer after Feldafing where they " Hotel shrub " ( " Hotel Kaiserin Elisabeth" today ) used to reside in the. They then settled translate almost daily to the island, even in the absence of Louis, and is therefore likely to (except the gardener ) to be the one resident who has an idyllic retreat for the longest amount of time actually inhabited. Elizabeth's fondness for the romantic island was probably the main reason why Ludwig was to maintain the place so carefully. A meeting between the two in 1972 adjusted by Luchino Visconti, starring Romy Schneider and Helmut Berger in the film Ludwig II on Rose Island.
After the death of Louis the interest of the house of Wittelsbach subsided at the Isle Casino and Rosengarten remained for decades exposed to decay.
1978 acquired the Free State of Bavaria neglected Rose Island for 800,000 DM from the Wittelsbach Compensation Fund and made it back to the public. 1998 was started after extensive planning with the restoration of the island. Today, the casino and the Rose Garden are largely restored to its original, the casino can be visited as a museum from spring to autumn and can also be rented for parties. Among other things, the registry office Feldafing performs wedding ceremonies in the historic rooms of the ground floor.
Tourism
The listed and landscape protection Roseninsel is target of up to 4,000 tourists per month, and is often chosen on beautiful summer days as the target of day trippers who come from Munich and the surrounding villages of the lake. From spring to autumn is a ferry from members of the community Feldafing bells bridge to the island. The driving beat of the ferry is adapted to the number of visitors, the trip takes about five minutes. With a small crowd the ferryman must be called by a bell attached to the bridge.
Due to its quiet, traffic-free street location in the lake and the relatively flat and well-maintained road network, the Rose Island is often visited by an older audience, even for wheelchair users and those with prams it is easily accessible.
Bring dogs to the island is prohibited. Catering and accommodation options are not available on the island, the tents and the kindling of fires are prohibited. In the summer months there are regular civil ceremonies at the casino.
By public transport from the island's best about a 30 -minute walk from the train station Possenhofen or Feldafing (S6).
Literary
In addition to Empress Elisabeth also the writer Karl List wrote about 1890 poems on Rose Island:
TV
The island can be seen in the landscapes between the scenes of the German telenovela storm of love.