Lößler Manor

The building has been known since 1390 as the Montfortian feudal court under the name "Losel". At that time, it was mentioned in the Burgfrieden treaty between Count Hugo III, the Minnesinger, and Count Wilhelm von Montfort. Around 1590, the Bregenz regional scribe Michael Witweiler acquired the house. The current manor was rebuilt between 1596 and 1613. Since the mid-17th century, it has been in bourgeois ownership and inhabited. In 1893/94, it received its neoclassical facade. The courtyard entrance leads through a round-arched gate in the only partially preserved surrounding wall to the main house. It is a three-story rectangular Renaissance building on a raised basement, covered with a gable roof. Since the end of the 19th century, the facade has shown regular window axes and rusticated corner banding. A grand staircase leads on the west front to the round-arched entrance portal with its rusticated ashlar. Above it is a palmette entablature. On the northern narrow front, the original cellar access is still recognizable as a walled-up round-arched opening in a chamfered sandstone frame. The rectangular coat of arms stone above it points to Michael Witweiler and his wife Anna Margreth Schumaier, as well as to the start of construction in 1596. Another reference to Michael Witweiler can be found in the cellar. This is a wooden pillar supporting the beam ceiling, marked with MW 1605. On the first floor, there is a tower stove from the end of the 19th century on baluster feet with a cast-iron cubic firebox from 1605. The richly ornamented front plate is decorated with the coats of arms of Witweiler and his two wives. In the living rooms, one occasionally finds coffered ceilings with simply profiled moldings. In front of the north front is the freestanding former house chapel, which has been used as a laundry room since the end of the 20th century. It is a delicate square building with an oculus window. On its south side is the rectangular chamfered sandstone portal. It features a profiled string course. In the later raised gable field, an inscription stone from 1613 and above it two coat of arms shields of Witweiler's two wives, held by frescoed lions, can be seen. They also date from the first quarter of the 17th century. Former farm buildings, such as the servant's house, connect to the courtyard gate in the west. In front of the entrance side is a small Baroque garden with a fountain.