Schloss Elmau
Schloss Elmau is a Grade I listed building dating back to 1914/1916 above the village of Klais in Wettersteingebirge, Upper Bavaria. It is 1,008 meters above sea level at the foot of weather stone ridge.
History
Before 1900
For the first time the name Elmau in 1395 was mentioned. The word - the name of the floodplain - " originally meant water, but was later understood as a term for a wet meadow or island that is encircled by potable water. The origin of the first syllable Elm is unclear, could be due to Alm Alpe or a pasture on a mountain. The primordial, formed by a glacier and ocean topography with its moraines and hump meadows where Schloss Elmau is, 60 million year old seabed. " The floodplain (called Drüsselgraben, which is nestled between the Wamberg the north and the weather stone wall in the south ) is a nature reserve, " mainly because of the many protected flowers like the gentians, which cover in the spring of the Huckel and hills with a blue carpet. "
From 1542 Elmau was populated with Einödhöfen, a sawmill and a guest house. When the management was no longer profitable, the farmers sold their property to two admirers of King Ludwig II, who kept the inn an apartment where he used to stay whenever he every year on his birthday and his name on 25 August went for a few days on the royal house he built on Schachen. ( The castle is on a road of Schloss Elmau - now known as the royal road -. Achieve, on which the king go up with horse-drawn carriage or carriage ) After the death of the fairy-tale king in 1886, the property then lost completely its meaning.
After 1900
Now under monument protection Schloss Elmau was built in 1914-1916 by the writer, philosopher and theologian Johannes Müller with the financial support of Elsa Countess Waldersee for its readers, seminar participants and supporters after the earlier it used lock Mainberg for this not enough space bot. The architect was Müller's brother Carlo Sattler. It was intended as a refuge castle culture of Protestant German inwardness and community life. One of the closest friends and guests of Johannes Müller at that time included, among other things, Prince Max von Baden and Adolf von Harnack, one of today in Germany politically and theologically most influential intellectuals and theologians of the 20th century.
In the era of National Socialism Schloss Elmau 1941 leased as a front rest home to the Wehrmacht. After the war ended in 1945, Johannes Müller was convicted " in written and glorification of Hitler", as the main culprit in a denazification process due to its. Schloss Elmau was confiscated and served a short time as a military hospital of the U.S. Army.
By 1951 the castle was led by State Councillor of the Bavarian government for racial, religious and political persecution, Philipp Auerbach as a convalescent home for TB patients, displaced persons and survivors of the Holocaust. After the arrest Auerbach's because of him vorgeworfener irregularities in another case was Schloss Elmau 1951 in trust by two children, Johannes Müller, Bernhard Müller and Sieglinde Mesirca, leased by the Bavarian state and operated as a hotel. After completion of the revision process against the judgment of the Spruchkammer against Johannes Müller, the two were each 50 % owner of Schloss Elmau.
Since the end of the 1950 year included, among others Johannes Rau and Loriot the regulars.
Newer alignment
From 1997, Schloss Elmau by Dietmar Müller- Elmau has been renovated and reopened as Spa & Cultural Hideaway for individualists. Meanwhile, there is a Luxury Spa & Cultural Hideaway and member of the Alliance Hotel The Leading Hotels of the World. For this reason, restaurants and other resort facilities are generally accessible to residents only.
The discussion of the history of lap Elmau - especially influenced by National Socialism - led to Schloss Elmau to a cultural center, to the meeting and venue with respect to German ideas and cultural history, theology and philosophy as well as the problematic entanglement of religion and politics in has become world political issues.
In August 2005, a major fire and in consequence large quantities of extinguishing water destroyed two wings and two-thirds of all the rooms of the castle. The reconstruction of the castle and the bathhouse was from April 2006 to June 2007 according to plans by Dietmar Müller- Elmau, Christoph Sattler, André Behncke and the architectural firm DBLB from Munich. The oriental hamam was completed according to the plans of the joint owner of the castle and Ahmet Irdiligil from Bodrum in July 2008.
On January 23, 2014 it was announced that the G8 summit will be held in the summer of 2015 at Schloss Elmau.
Music at Schloss Elmau
From the earliest beginning, played the music - especially classical music - a central role in the cultural offer of which opened in 1916 Schloss Elmau. Already Johannes Müller had stressed the importance of music to the human well being repeated in his writings and lectures:
Even before the dance commitment, which was reflected in a number of dances, was especially cared for the musical at regular concerts. Just a few years after the opening of the castle in 1916 more than a hundred concerts were organized per year, from the piano on songs and chamber music evenings to occasional orchestral concerts and oratorios. Besides Elmauer " house musicians " such as the pianist Otto Ludwig were invited more and more and more and more important external artists to concerts. Among the musicians who have already occurred very early in Schloss Elmau and here over several decades were long over and over again as a guest, the pianist Wilhelm Kempff (ab 1929), Detlef Kraus ( 1944 ) and Elly Ney, cellist Ludwig Hoelscher, or baritone Hermann Prey mentioned.
International Elmau was from January of the year 1959, when the German - British conductor Hans Oppenheim, who was to conduct in Glyndebourne later, the first English- German Music Days at Schloss Elmau initiated in which the British composer and pianist Benjamin Britten, the tenor Peter Pears and the guitarist and lutenist Julian Bream were to experience in several concerts - including compositions by Britten and Franz Schubert Beautiful miller's Wife. This English- German music days were for several years - in January - repeated, and Pears and Bream recurred several times. ( Then also Britten came to the tenth, then named as British German music days music week in January 1969 again to Upper Bavaria. ) If this music days not justified annually one or more times be held in Schloss Elmau Chamber Music Festival, they solidified those however. More and more, Schloss Elmau preferably made as a performance of chamber music a name.
In August 1960 the first time joined the London Amadeus Quartet on a series of chamber concerts at Schloss Elmau; in subsequent years, the musicians came again and again with several concert evenings to Elmau (initially not yet, but later always in their original line-up ). When the music days in January 1963 here first appeared on the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, the Elmau should also remain connected for long years. Later played and sang here with many other Stuttgart Melos Quartet, the pianist Alfred Brendel and Friedrich Gulda, violinist Gidon Kremer ( 1980 ) or the baritone Thomas Quasthoff. Almost all renowned musicians - one or even several times - documented with appearances in Schloss Elmau.
Today, more than two hundred musical events are held in Schloss Elmau annually. In addition to the classical music and chamber music more and more jazz has thereby secured a strong position in recent years. Classical and Jazz ( @ Schloss Elmau, Verbier Festival @ Schloss Elmau, European Jazztival, Jazz Classica, Swing Week, etc. song week) are represented in individual concerts as well as concert series. In addition to musical concerts regularly literary events and symposia.
Elmauer Alm
The Elmauer Alm was built in 1924 as Serviced and expanded in the early 1950s to the guest hospitality; it belongs to Schloss Elmau. It is located about 30 minutes' walk away from this at 1,203 meters above sea level on a mountain ridge. For walkers it is a retreat and milestone between Garmisch -Partenkirchen and Mittenwald because of their excellent round gaze very popular, ranging from the Zugspitze in the West over the Alp and Dreitorspitze, the weather stone and Karwendel Mountains through to Soierngruppe in the east. In ideal weather conditions with good visibility of the view extends even far into the Tyrolean inland.