Dotternhausen Castle

Dotternhausen Castle
View from the east (December 2015)
Alternative name (s):	Dotternhausen Castle, Cotta'sches Castle
Creation time :	Early 12th century
Castle type :	Location
Conservation status:	lock
Standing position :	Niederadel, barons
Place:	Dotternhausen
Geographical location	48 ° 13 '48 "  N , 8 ° 47' 32"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '48 "  N , 8 ° 47' 32"  E
Height:	645  m above sea level NN

The castle Dotternhausen, and Castle Dotternhausen or Cotta'sches Castle called, is a former castle and later Castle in Castle Street in the north-east of the village Dotternhausen in Zollernalbkreis ( Baden-Wuerttemberg ). The castle is one of the landmarks of the village. Today it is privately owned and can only be viewed from the outside.

history

The noble lords of Dotternhausen appear between 1228 and 1314 in the wake of various counts in Dotternhausen, which indicates that the castle was built in the beginning of the 12th century. In the 13th century, the Maier von Dotternhausen are also mentioned.

The castle was built in 1527 by Hans von Stotzingen. Further owners are Austria, from 1666 the Jesuit college Rottenburg and 1789 the imperial counts Ernst and Ferdinand von Bissingen-Nippenburg .

In 1814 the publisher Friedrich von Cotta bought the castle. The contemporary writers Goethe , Schiller , Humboldt and Herder made him one of the most famous publicists of his time. After the abolition of serfdom was planned by the Württemberg reform king Wilhelm in 1818, his son Georg von Cotta , whose center of life was the estate of Dotternhausen, implemented his plans for the rule of Plettenberg in Dotternhausen. In 1821 Georg took over his father's publishing house.

In 1860 the castle was renovated in the style of historicism . The two-storey building, the main structure of which has a gable roof and battlements, is followed by an English-style castle park between the castle wall and Katzenbach.

literature

• Wolfgang Willig: Landadel palaces in Baden-Württemberg - A cultural-historical search for traces . Self-published by Willig, Balingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813887-0-1 , pp. 103-104.
• Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis district office, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 168–173.
• Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X .

Web links

Commons : Cotta'sches Schloss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Dotternhausen at leo-bw.de
2. ^ Entry on Dotternhausen Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
3. ↑ Dotternhausen Castle at oberes-schlichental.de