Eulenhof (Ehrstädt)
The Eulenhof is a residential area in the Ehrstädt district of Sinsheim . It is a single large estate in a secluded location.
location
The Eulenhof is located on a hill just under two kilometers west of Ehrstädt, along the district road 4182 to Steinsfurt .
history
The Eulenhof is a very old farm estate and probably the farm yard of the old castle near Ehrstädt, which later disappeared and was supplemented or replaced by Neuhaus Castle further south before 1329 . The ruins of the old castle are said to have served as a quarry for building materials for a long time and in the older local literature there are still remnants of the wall near the Eulenhof. Little is known of the history of this ancient castle.
The Eulenhof appears in a document as a pure estate in the late Middle Ages. Reinhard von Helmstatt zu Fürfeld acquired with the consent of Worms Bishop Johann III. von Dalberg owned the Eulenhof and half of Ehrstädt from Hans and Reinhard von Sachsenheim in 1484 . Reinhard's sons Sebastian and Burkhard von Helmstatt zu Treschklingen sold his property on April 21, 1516 to Philipp , Dietrich and Wolf von Gemmingen . In the late 16th century, the Eulenhof came into the possession of the Lords of Degenfeld-Neuhaus , who also owned Neuhaus Castle and both halves of Ehrstädt. Johann Albrecht Friedrich von Degenfeld (1693–1723), who owned the farm in the early 18th century, temporarily renamed it Albrechtsburg . The property of the Degenfeld-Neuhaus was fragmented several times within the family, but was also reunited again and again with the extinction of family branches. The last male descendant of the barons of Degenfeld-Neuhaus was August von Degenfeld (1853–1921). After his death, his daughters Hertha and Ruth inherited his property, consisting of Neuhaus Castle, Ehrstädt Castle and Gut, Wagenbacher Hof , Eulenhof and a forest near Unterbiegelhof . When the estate was divided, Schloss Neuhaus and the Eulenhof came to Hertha von Gemmingen, nee. Degenfeld (1894–1963). Her husband Eberhard von Gemmingen (1883–1952) acquired the neighboring Rauhof in 1928 on the territory of the neighboring town of Adersbach , thereby increasing the property to around 340 hectares. The entire property came in 1963 to his son Pleikard von Gemmingen, who moved to the Rauhof in 1975. From this the property came in 1993 to his son Michael von Gemmingen (* 1971), who now manages the property from the Rauhof.
The oldest building on the Eulenhof is the servants' house from around 1500. It bears the names of Hans Conrad von Helmstatt and Maria Barbara von Zweifel on the portal, who lived on the farm between 1484 and 1516 during the short ownership period of the von Helmstatt family have to. The main building of the courtyard fell into disrepair in the 18th century. In 1779, the master builder Franz-Joseph Remlinger from Grombach and the Wimpfen master craftsman Huber drew up an appraisal for Reinhard Philipp Friedrich von Degenfeld (1722–1784), in which they declared that the house could only be demolished. Since at that time the property at the Eulenhof within the von Degenfeld-Neuhaus family was split into three parts, there was initially no agreement as to who was to blame for the poor condition and consequently who would bear the costs of a new building. Only Reinhard Philipp Friedrich's son Wilhelm Ferdinand Friedrich von Degenfeld (1757-1819) came to an agreement with the co-owners, paid them off and built the new manor house in Eulenhof in 1793, which bears his initials WFvD on the portal. The remaining building stock of the Eulenhof mainly consists of younger farm buildings.
literature
- Friedrich Hub : Ehrstädt and Neuhaus Castle. Ehrstädt 1967.
- Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26. Elztal 1991, pp. 156-163.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ' N , 8 ° 58' E