Schloss Ringberg

Ringberg Castle is a building halfway up the Ringberg in Tegernsee Mountains, 1.7 kilometers (direct distance ) south-east of Lake Tegernsee or its southwestern bay called Ringsee, at an elevation of 905.9 meters above sea level. It belongs to the municipality Kreuth and is now serving as the meeting site of the Max Planck Society ( MPG) used.

Builder from 1912 until his death in 1973 Luitpold Emanuel Duke was in Bavaria ( 1890-1973 ) ( son of Max Emanuel in Bayern ), the last scion of a physical branch line of the Wittelsbach family, the Dukes of Bavaria.

Despite the long construction period to 1973 only a few rooms of the castle were habitable; except for a caretaker couple and the " house artist " Attenhuber Friedrich (1877-1947) lived until 1973 no one in the castle. From Attenhuber come all the images in the castle, both paintings and drawings and murals. A large part of the device is designed by Attenhuber - the castle is so far one of the rare works of art. Both the architecture and the interior of the castle, which has been preserved in the original in some parts, is an idiosyncratic blend of numerous styles especially from the Middle Ages, Baroque and Art Nouveau.

The builder Duke Luitpold of Bavaria has built a large part of its assets in Ringberg Castle and also sells other inherited ownership as the Possenhofen and lock Honest stone castle in Munich- Schwabing for the expansion of Ringberg.

The Castle as a meeting house

In 1967, an inheritance contract between Duke Luitpold of Bavaria and the Max Planck Society was closed, which laid down that the castle after the death of Duke in Bavaria would fall to the MPG. For the building maintenance Duke inherited in Bavaria also another cash, are paid out of the still necessary renovations. After the death of Duke in Bavaria, the castle was initially also used until about 1980 for small meetings of scientists mainly from the Max Planck Society about the Technical University of Munich. Between 1980 and 1983 the castle was built with funds from a donation of the Munich Reinsurance Company. The construction of a new lecture hall for about 60 people was based on plans by the Munich architect Otto Meitinger. After the expansion took place in 1983, the opening of the lock by Reimar Lüst, the then President of the Max Planck Society.

About Otto Meitinger the castle came in the 1960s, also of the Max Planck Society: he created as an employee of the Bavarian Palace Department an opinion on the Denkmalwürdigkeit the castle. Duke Luitpold of Bavaria wanted to recognize as a "last monument of romance " the castle since the 1950s. Later ( 1963-1976 ) was Meitinger head of the construction department of the Max Planck Society and gave the inheritance contract between Duke in Bavaria and the Max Planck Society.

Only in 1973 the castle was recognized after the adoption of the Bavarian Monument Act as a memorial. The castle is every two years at an open day for the public, the deadline was the 20th July 2013.