Max Emanuel von Sandizell

Baron (Freiherr) von und zu Sandizell

Max Emanuel von und zu Sandizell (1702-1778), baron, commander of Ingolstadt and a highly prominent figure at the Bavarian court, is the builder of the present-day appearance of the Sandizell moated castle. After a journey to Malta in 1731, undertaken for the Bavarian crown in order to bring the Order of Malta and the Order of Saint George closer together, he had the church of the Hofmark rebuilt from 1735 in fulfilment of a vow, and completed it in 1753; the high altar was entrusted to Egid Quirin Asam in 1747. From 1749, he had the castle rebuilt to the plans of the Neuburg court architect Johann Püchtler, with Veit Haltmeier and Johann Anton Prunnthaler; the whole received its definitive Rococo form in 1755.