Schönstadt Castle

Schönstadt Castle
Schönstadt Castle
Alternative name (s):	Schönstadt Castle
Creation time :	13th Century
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Remnants of the tower, today's castle
Place:	Cölbe - Schönstadt
Geographical location	50 ° 52 '57.4 "  N , 8 ° 49' 45.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '57.4 "  N , 8 ° 49' 45.5"  E

The castle Schönstadt is an Outbound Wasserburg on the southern edge of the district Schönstadt the municipality Cölbe in Marburg-Biedenkopf in Hessen . Today it is replaced by Schönstadt Palace , which still contains some components of the former castle complex .

description

The current facility was built in 1749 by Georg Friedrich Milchling von Schönstadt on the site of a 13th-century moated castle that was first mentioned in documents in 1344. It was a two-storey, seven-axis mansion with a mansard roof and a late Gothic octagonal tower.

history

It is not clear whether the moated castle was built by the brothers Diedrich, named Schutzbar, and Konrad Milchling von Michelbach, sons of Konrad Milchling von Nordeck, who were named in 1273 as owning the town . The castle was a fiefdom of Kurmainz , and the brothers were castle men at the Mellnau castle in Mainz . The descendants of Konrad later called themselves Milchling von Schönstadt . After 1464 the Milchling gave the castle to the Landgrave of Hesse as a fief. It is also uncertain whether the castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . After the conversion to a castle , only the octagonal tower stump of the castle remained, which was raised in 1618 with two half-timbered floors.

Aerial view of Schoenstadt Castle

In 1890 Ludwig Ferdinand Milchling von Schönstadt sold the property to the chemist and entrepreneur Eugen Lucius from Frankfurt , one of the founders of Hoechst AG . He had the castle renewed around 1900, with a second tower added. Eugen Lucius inherited the castle and estate first to his daughter Eugenie, who had married the Dutch Count Lodewijk Hieronymus Schimmelpenninck in 1887 , and then to her daughter Maximiliane Countess Schimmelpenninck (1889–1966), who worked with the Frankfurt banker Simon Moritz Freiherr von Bethmann (1887–1966) was married. The descendants of the von Bethmanns still own the castle today.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Simon Moritz Henning August, Freiherr von Bethmann on Geneall, Portal der Genealogie.

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , pp. 264 and 268.

Web links

Commons : Schönstadt Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry by Jens Friedhoff zu Schönstadt in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on March 23, 2017.