Schloss Gatterburg

Schloss Gatterburg stands in Pasing, Munich, as a late Classicist castle with a long sequence of uses. The Würm gives the castle a direct link to its original island setting. The original Schloss Pasing stood on an island in the river before Maximilian I Joseph acquired it in 1814. He demolished that building and built a new estate farther south, which he gave to Prince Karl in 1817. Ownership later passed through several hands, including Baron Karl von Beck, founder of the Pasing paper mill. His daughter Pauline married Count Franz von Gatterburg, connecting the property with the Gatterburg family. In the late 1860s, Franz von Gatterburg partly demolished the existing structure and built the two-storey castle described here. An old cross-vaulted cellar forms part of that construction. Schloss Gatterburg later served the Passionists as a monastery and boarding school from 1923. From 1970, the building housed a training institute for secondary-school teachers. A 1999 renovation prepared the building for office use. The castle brings together an island origin, a Würm setting, family history, education, and late Classicist architecture.