Princely Leiningen's Palais Amorbach

The Fürstlich-Leiningen Palace in Amorbach is a palace of the Princes of Leiningen in Amorbach in the Bavarian Odenwald .

Client

The Archbishop of Mainz Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein was born in Amorbach and had a brother, the Kurmainzer Oberamtmann Franz Wolfgang Damian von Ostein . He had this palace built from 1724 to 1727 as an Amorbach office based on plans by Anselm Franz von Ritter zu Groenesteyn .

Change of ownership

The then Hereditary Prince Emich Carl zu Leiningen was without a residence of his own before 1803, as he was expelled from Dürkheim in 1797 . He moved into this palace. In 1830 it was expanded by his son Karl zu Leiningen and with the help of the princely master builder Friedrich Brenner and is still the family seat of the former princes of Leiningen .

His father, Prince Carl Friedrich Wilhelm zu Leiningen , moved into parts of the former abbey building opposite , the so-called convent . He had parts of the building expanded or converted into a residence . This imposing, 118-meter-long building was built from 1782 to 1794 according to plans by Franz Ignaz Michael Neumann , son of the famous Balthasar Neumann , for the Amorbach Abbey and, after the Reichsdeputation Hauptschluss, was now a sovereign right to him.

Web links

• Picture by Carl Theodor Reiffenstein : Amorbach im Odenwald, Catholic parish church and Princely-Liningisches Palais from 1857  (HStAD inventory R 4 No. 20544). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
• Front view of the Princely Palace from www.wehrbauten.de ( Forum Burgen und Schlösser )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Illustration on the page Castles & Palaces

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 42.6 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 10.3 ″  E