Sandersdorf Castle, Sandersdorf, Germany

Sandersdorf Castle is a 17th-century building on a medieval foundation. It stands on a spur of high land to the west of the village of Sandersdorf. The building has four wings. The east and south wings are decorated with bay windows and gables. The lower west wing contains the inner courtyard with open arcades. There are onion domes over the gatehouse and the castle chapel. The most valuable works of art are a crucifix by Ignaz Günther and the Romanesque tympanum on the outside.

A castle was built as the seat of the lords of Sandersdorf in the mid-12th century. The castle changed ownership several times in the 14th and 15th centuries. In 1420 it was burned by Duke Henry XVI of Bavaria-Landshut during his war with Duke Ludwig the Bearded of Bavaria-Ingolstadt. In 1425 Sandersdorf and its estate was awarded to the Muggenthal family. They held the castle for more than 200 years. The castle brewery was founded in 1550, and its Sandersdorf beer became widely known. The castle was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), but the Muggenthals rebuilt it in its present form.

In 1646, soon after the reconstruction, Wolfgang Unverzagt Freiher von Roy purchased the property. He went bankrupt, and Johannes Jakob Lossius bought it in 1650. In 1675 it was inherited by his nephew Dominikus de Bassus, a professor at the University of Ingolstadt. During the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) the building was devastated in 1703. Thomas Maria Baron de Bassus became a leader of the Illuminati in Italy, an secret society founded to promote enlightenment ideas such as opposition to superstition, prejudice, and abuse of state power. In 1787 the Bavarian police raised Sandersdorf castle and found compromising documents. His estate was temporarily confiscated. Baron de Bassus died in Sandersdorf in 1815.

Sandersdorf remained the property of the Barons de Bassus, and was partially restored in 1900 by the Munich architect Gabriel von Seidl. In 2008 the Wittelsbach Compensation Fund bought the castle and estate from the de Bassus family.

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Michael Kla (2 years ago)
Fantastically beautiful castle, unfortunately not open to the public.

Georg Petrus (2 years ago)
Just beautiful

Wolfgang “Wolfgang” (2 years ago)
Very nice.

Christian Mayerhofer (4 years ago)
My birth place. I was in the castle every day! My grandmother lived there, I played in the castle garden center (Novak' the cashier's name,...Wachter, the supplying garden center). I was an altar boy in the palace chapel. My mother worked in the 'de Bassus' brewery. In the brewery's workshop I had a welding device to hand for the first time and got to know enthusiasm for a metal job. During the holidays I helped to provide the house customers with drinks at "Bier-Peter" with a VW LT28. I knew Nikolaus and Knecht Ruprecht, who took me through the castle in the summer up to the flag. A film was shot in the castle around 1985. I was allowed to slide on the tin roof of the beer cellar in summertime (I was all the boys in the village). And, I was just one of many village children. In winter you could still ski in Schamhaupten (next town). Just yesterday I went to the "Booder" in Sandersdorf for a haircut. That's how a boy lives in Bavaria... And now 40 years later, in 2020... he remembers great, carefree times...

Janina Šeduikiene (5 years ago)
I can't say much because I only admired the outside

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