Schloss Taxis

Castle Taxis, also known as Castle Trugenhofen, is in Oberdischingen in the district of Heidenheim. It consists of several buildings, including the Cavalierbau, theater, Kapellenbau, Prinzenbau and the Princes in the lower and upper courtyard.

In the former Kitchen a hunting museum was housed. The castle can not be visited, but the adjoining Castle English forest is open to the public.

History

The present castle was in the Middle Ages the castle site Trugenhofen. Its inhabitants, the Lords of Trugenhofen were Reichsministeriale. The castle later passed into the possession of the Counts of Oettingen, then the Lords of Hürnheim to Katzenstein, the Lords of Westernach, cupbearer of Castell, the Lords of Leonrod and finally in 1734 to the second Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Anselm Franz von Thurn and taxis about. Anselm Franz had purchased the area including table Ingen market for 150,000 guilders.

Over the years, the royal family who extended the castle to representative summer residence. Major builders of their time as Joseph Dossenberger, Johann Georg Hitzelsberger and Thomas Scheidhauf received works. Many architectural styles from the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Classicism to Neo-Gothic combines the imposing castle. At the highest point of the area is the three-story New Castle, a rectangular gable roof covered Renaissance building with three transverse helmet roof covered corner towers. Several gardens surround the northern, western and eastern castle area.

The fourth Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Karl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis, banished after several attempts on his person his first wife, Princess Augusta of Württemberg, 1776 under strict house arrest after castle Trugenhofen. With royal permission was 1817, the renaming of the castle Trugenhofen in Castle taxis. The fifth Duke Karl Alexander of Thurn and Taxis died there on July 15, 1827 and his wife Therese of Mecklenburg on 12 February 1839.

Over 250 years, the castle served Thurn and Taxis as a summer residence. From here, all possessions were ruled from May to September.

In the immediate vicinity of the castle is the Fürstl. Riding hall. This was built in 1775 and 1776 and is now a cultural monument of special importance. 2011 and 2012 there was a substantial refurbishment of the building.

The castle is surrounded by many avenues, coming from all four directions. In English garden rows of chestnut trees, lime avenues always lead to the castle, on the other hand to the merrymaking.