Gut Schwaighof, Architectural heritage monument and park in Allmannshofen, Germany.
Gut Schwaighof is a two-storey estate building near Allmannshofen, north of Augsburg, between the Schmutter river and the road from Nordendorf to Donauwörth. Its pale pinkish-beige facade is divided by a band of reddish stone; the steep dark red tiled roof carries two tall chimneys with pale caps. The upper windows have white frames and grey shutters, and a central arched doorway with a carved surround is flanked by two small semicircular canopies.
Gut Schwaighof began as a Schwaighof of Holzen Abbey. With secularisation it passed to the Counts of Fischler-Treuberg around 1800, and in 1918 the indebted estate was sold to the Kaiserslautern casting and fittings works, whose director Carl Billand acquired part as a private residence. His descendants, the Zeising family, still own it.
The name Schwaighof refers to a type of farmstead held by a monastery; this one belonged to Kloster Holzen until secularisation around 1800. Today the estate is a Trakehner stud farm, with the Zeising family breeding horses here since the early 1960s, alongside a dairy, arable and market-gardening operation.
The estate lies between the road from Nordendorf via Druisheim to Donauwörth and the Schmutter stream, north of Augsburg. The park is not open for free roaming: it can be visited only on guided tours, held regularly on the Day of Open Monuments.
One estate building, immediately right of the drive, was built around an existing tree: the trunk stands inside the structure and only the crown shows outside. The park also holds a bronze "Flötenbläser" bought from Gustav Allinger's exhibition garden at the 1926 Dresden horticultural show.
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