Igling Castle

Around 1215, a castle was built on the hill above Igling after the castle on the neighboring Stoffersberg had been destroyed. Through the Conradine Donation, the castle fell to the Dukes of Bavaria around 1339, who leased the edifice to finance wars and living expenses.

Further owners of the castle included Karl Gelnhofer, Schwikker von Gundelfingen, the Meitinger, Langmantel, and the Augsburg patrician family Rehlinger. In 1611, the Bavarian Elector Maximilian handed over the castle to his Chief Chancellor Joachim Freiherr von Donnersberg, who rebuilt it in 1620. Of that construction, only the castle chapel remains today. In 1632, the passing Swedes plundered the castle, the Donnersberg family died out, and the building was sold to Count Spaur, who had the castle rebuilt in a Neo-Gothic style.

In 1853, the forecourt was expanded and the castle was converted into a moated castle. It has been preserved in this form to this day. In 1866, the complex was sold as the Majorat Estate Igling to Leopold Graf von Maldeghem, Baron de Leyshot, Comte de Stenuffel. The Count had lost his estates in France and Flanders under Napoleon. The complex was almost twice as large then as it is today; besides agriculture and forestry, the Count also maintained a brewery at the castle and arranged for the Munich-Lindau railway line to pass through Igling. The majority of Igling's population worked for the Maldeghem Count's pension administration.

During the Second World War, the castle was confiscated by the SS and after the war was an outpost of Landsberg prison, where the Americans housed war criminals. Afterwards, refugees were accommodated in the castle.

Due to the housing shortage after the war, caused not least by refugees, the owner, Ludwig Graf von Maldeghem, gave a large part of his properties in the village to the population. The decaying castle was thoroughly renovated from 1970 onwards at the instigation of Ludwig Graf von Maldeghem, and a 9-hole golf course was built around the castle in the early 90s.

The castle is still owned by the Counts of Maldeghem and is not publicly accessible. The outbuildings house a castle restaurant, the Igling Golf Club, a pro shop, and administrative buildings.