Hohenheim Castle

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Hohenheim Palace, garden front (view from the south)
Map of the gardens
Plan of the Corps des Guides from 1772

The Hohenheim Castle is located in the Stuttgart district of Hohenheim and was from 1772 to 1793 by the Württemberg Duke Carl Eugen for his future wife Franziska Leutrum of Ertingen built. The architect was Reinhard Ferdinand Heinrich Fischer . Today the castle is mainly used by the University of Hohenheim . The castle is surrounded by the Hohenheim Gardens .

history

The manor buildings of the Lords of Hohenheim, to whose line the humanist Theophrast Bombast von Hohenheim, who became known as Paracelsus , belonged, previously stood on the site . In 1100 Hohenheim was mentioned as Hohenach first documented as Egilolf of Hohenach the Hirsau country gave. Over the centuries the estate had changed hands several times before it fell to Carl Eugen in 1768 .

From 1772 the Duke had the estate converted into a small moated castle, which was proclaimed a summer residence in 1776 . In the same year, planning began for an “English Village” , which eventually comprised over 60 1: 4 scale miniaturized buildings in the Rococo style. To this day, three of them have been preserved in the area of ​​the State Arboretum - Exotic Garden: the so-called Roman Inn , the Three Pillars of Thundering Jupiter and the Playhouse (now the Museum of the History of the University of Hohenheim). The neo-Gothic chapel, which also belongs to the “Dörfle”, as well as some other buildings were later moved to Ludwigsburg ( Monrepos Palace and Ludwigsburg Palace Park ).

In 1778 the Duke had rare foreign plants planted in Hohenheim, some of which can still be seen in the Exotic Garden today. From 1782 Carl Eugen had an extensive residential palace built on the site, but it was never completed. The construction work ended with the death of the Duke in Hohenheim (1793).

Friedrich Schiller described the park of Hohenheim Palace as follows: “But the nature that we find in this English complex is no longer what we started from. It is nature inspired by spirit and exalted by art, [...] "

It was not until almost 20 years later that the castle regained greater importance: King Wilhelm I of Württemberg and his wife Katharina founded the agricultural teaching, experimental and model institute , which was housed in an annex to the castle. The Paracelsusgymnasium, founded in 1829 as a one-class private school for the children of the professors and civil servants, was later housed in the east wing, but left it at the latest when the new building was completed in 1966.

During the Second World War, individual wings of the castle were destroyed, but they were later (at least externally) rebuilt. In the 1970s the castle was modernized and the rococo stucco removed. This stucco was not reconstructed until the 1990s and now adorns the castle again.

Todays use

Trompe-l'œil in one of the interiors

Today the University of Hohenheim uses large parts of the palace. The State School for Horticulture and Agriculture is also located there .

In 1918, a cafeteria with the name “Speisemeisterei” was set up for the University of Hohenheim in the Kavaliersbau of the palace. This was converted into a restaurant in 1985. Between 1993 and 2007, Martin Öxle ran it, who was temporarily awarded two stars by the Michelin Guide . Since September 2008 , the new boss has been Frank Oehler , who has been continuously awarded a star by the Michelin Guide since the edition for the Speisemeisterei immediately following the reopening. Jochen Bayer and Alexander Scholz have been running the restaurant since July 2018.

Web links

Commons : Hohenheim Palace  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Website of the PGH on its history .
  2. ↑ PDF from the University of Hohenheim on the historical circular route, accessed on October 11, 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-hohenheim.de
  3. ↑ https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.spitzengastronomie-speisemeisterei-neue-betreiber- discovered.aac18042- ae2d- 4f32-9e90-664777364b66.html

literature

Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 43 "  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 50.6"  E