Schloss Deutenhofen

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Schloss Deutenhofen is a large house in Deutenhofen, a village in Hebertshausen, Bavaria, Germany. The place is very old: it is first mentioned around 926–937 as Titinhoua, meaning “Hof des Tito.” The castle was built before 1341, and its owner then was knight Ulrich Gruber.

From about 1550 it became the seat of the Deutenhofen hofmark, a local feudal estate, and it stayed that way until 1834. In the 16th century the Reitmor family owned it and shaped it toward its present form. Dr. Johann von Mändl, born in 1588, rose in Bavarian service and became a high official; he bought the hofmark in 1624. In 1632 the castle was burned during the Thirty Years’ War by Swedish troops, but Mändl rebuilt and expanded it afterward.

In 1834 it was sold to the Count of Spreti. After World War II it served as an auxiliary hospital. In 1970 it became a nursing home run by the Bavarian Red Cross. Starting in 2012 it has been used as a refugee center, with about 100 refugees moved in on short notice; some rooms were already suitable for occupancy, so the newcomers could be housed quickly. The old part of the building contains a small chapel—a simple white room with a vaulted ceiling.