Schloss Igling

Schloss Igling stands on a hill above the village of Oberigling in Upper Bavaria. First mentioned in 1215, it replaced a ruined fortress on nearby Stoffersberg. The site passed from medieval nobles to the Langenmantel family after the Landshut War of Succession. In 1612 Maximilian of Bavaria sold it to Joachim von Donnersberg, who built a new wing whose only surviving part is the chapel. After Swedish troops plundered the castle in 1632, the Donnersberg line died out and the Spaur family rebuilt it in the neo-Gothic style. The present appearance dates from 1853 when Arnold Zenetti enlarged and refashioned the complex in neo-Gothic lines. Leopold Graf von Maldeghem acquired the estate in 1866 and ran a brewery while persuading the railway to run past Igling. During the Second World War the SS took over the castle, later using it as a prison annexe for war criminals. After 1945 refugees lived there until Ludwig Graf von Maldeghem restored the building between 1970 and the early 1990s. Today the main building remains private, but the outbuildings contain a restaurant, the Igling Golf Club with its nine-hole course, a pro-shop and offices. The neo-Gothic chapel from the Donnersberg rebuilding still stands beside the newer wings added by Zenetti. The surrounding park and golf fairways stretch across what was once the much larger Maldeghem estate.