Stocksberg Castle

Aerial view of Stocksberg Castle from the south

Stocksberg Castle above Stockheim

Stocksberg Castle is a castle in Stockheim , a district of Brackenheim in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg .

location

Stocksberg Castle is located on the Stocksberg of the same name, a southeastern branch of the Heuchelberg , northeast above the village of Stockheim. The core area of ​​the facility lies on an almost square plateau , which is separated from the rest of the Stocksberg to the west by an approximately right-angled neck ditch . The two-wing main building and the 30-meter-high tower are located on the approximately 29 × 30-meter plateau, to the west of which there are some farm buildings along the opposite side of the neck ditch, and further to the west there is a park-like garden.

history

The builders of the first castle on the Stocksberg above Stockheim are considered to be the Lords of Stocksberg , who presumably descended from the Lords of Stockheim who had previously lived in the village and were first mentioned in 1220 with Ulrich von Stockersberg. The early history of ownership of the castle is unknown. On December 6, 1307, Count Eberhard the Illustrious ceded his rights to Stocksberg Castle to the Teutonic Order , who had already received the goods of the Lords of Stockheim in 1295 and thus owned the castle and place as well as other acquisitions. In 1334 Stockheim was raised to the rank of Kommende , but as early as 1375 it was united with the up-and- coming Kommende Horneck , who from 1404 also acquired Kirchhausen and parts of the Heuchlingen district .

What the early castle on the Stocksberg might have looked like can only be reconstructed through building findings. The palas was probably located on the site of today's main building, the castle tower goes back to the former keep , which was in the corner of the kinked neck ditch. Today's narrow north wing of the complex could have been built on an old shield wall between the tower and the hall. At the site of today's farm buildings west of the neck ditch there was a bailey .

Stockheim with Stocksberg Castle in Kieser's forest inventory book around 1684

Today's view of the location of the castle above Stockheim

During the German Peasants' War , the Stocksberg was the target of rebellious farmers under their leader Hans Wunderer from Pfaffenhofen on the night of Easter Monday, April 17, 1525 . With the exception of the Büttel and one other citizen, all Stockheimers joined the peasant heap who looted the castle and set it on fire. After this deed, the insurgents were called von Stocksberg . The heap united a few days later with the Bottwartaler heap under Matern Feuerbacher to form the Hellen Christian Haufen and moved on via Bietigheim, Vaihingen, Stuttgart, Schorndorf, Göppingen and Urach. After the defeat at Böblingen on May 12, 1525, the Helle Christian Haufen merged with the Heilbronn heap on May 19, 1525, but the farmers returned to their home villages when the uprising was about to fail. On August 12, 1525, German master Dietrich von Cleen stayed at the criminal court in Stockheim. His successor Walther von Cronberg had Horneck and Heuchlingen rebuilt by 1530. However, Stocksberg Castle was not completed again until 1574 under Heinrich von Bobenhausen . The master builder is Thomas Knoll († 1573) from Weinsberg, who also built the Kirchhausen Castle , which is very similar in details, for the Teutonic Order . As a result of this reconstruction, the complex essentially got its current shape as a two-wing complex.

During the Thirty Years' War , Swedish troops under Marshal Gustav Karlsson Horn moved from Mergentheim to Heilbronn in December 1631 . Swedish horsemen looted Stocksberg Castle on Christmas Eve. In 1634 the Teutonic Order regained control.

During the War of the Palatinate Succession , troops moved through the Stockheim area again and again. In June 1693 the place and castle were looted by the French. In October of the same year troops of the Bavarian General Serini set up camp on the Stocksberg.

During the Second Coalition War , the French general Michel Ney occupied Stocksberg Castle with his 7,000-strong troops in 1799 and fought on the Heuchelberg with the Austrian cavalry that had holed up in Güglingen .

Stocksberg Castle

In November 1805 Württemberg occupied the former imperial knighthood seats and their offices, including Neipperg and Stockheim. While the place became an independent municipality within the Kingdom of Württemberg , Stocksberg Castle initially became a state domain under a bailiff . In 1832 it came into the possession of the saddler's widow Fröhlich, whose children initiated extensive repairs to the facility. In 1843 Alfred von Neipperg bought the castle, his brother and heir Erwin von Neipperg sold it to the community in 1873. The community parceled out the associated castle property and sold the parcels to the local residents on favorable terms. The castle itself came to the sparkling wine manufacturer Eduard Gießler in 1890 , to whom today's interior of the main wing goes back.

During the Second World War , Stocksberg Castle was occupied by the Reich Labor Service , later the city of Heilbronn set up an old people's home as an alternative accommodation for the Heilbronn Katharinenstift there. From 1954 the property was divided. A farmer bought the farm buildings, the castle building was sold to a manufacturer in 1969. The stone archway in the vineyards marks the former end of the municipality's own ravine on the ascent to the castle.

literature

• Home book of the city of Brackenheim and its districts . Brackenheim 1980
• Julius Fekete : Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn . 2nd Edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1662-2 , pp. 132-137.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Stocksberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 18 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 34 ″  E