Langenstein Castle

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Langenstein Castle

The Langenstein Castle is located in Hegau and is owned by the family Graf Douglas . It houses a carnival museum and is known beyond the region for the affiliated golf and country club.

Structure and history

The Schloss Langenstein is located on the territory of the municipality Orsingen-Nenzingen south of the community Eigeltingen between Stockach and singing in Hegau. The origins of the castle go back to the Middle Ages. In 1100 the today still exists as the basement was the keep of the Reichenau Abbey built on an elongated rock of Jurassic limestone. Langenstein was then in the 12th and 13th centuries the seat of servants of the Reichenau monastery, who named themselves after the castle . After the von Langenstein family died out at the beginning of the 14th century, numerous nobles owned the castle in the following centuries, including knight Bilgeri von Heudorf .

The main building of today's palace complex was essentially built around a square tower between 1570 and 1605. The complex was later expanded with the so-called New Castle and connected with an intermediate wing. It has a castle chapel . Other buildings such as the Ludwigshof and the Reichenauer Zehntkeller round off the complex.

In 1826, Grand Duke Ludwig von Baden bought the castle as private property. After the death of the Grand Duke in 1830, his son, Count Ludwig Wilhelm August von Langenstein and Gondelsheim (1820–1872), along with the other estates that his father had acquired privately in Hegau, Linzgau , the Danube Valley and Kraichgau and combined in the Graeflich Langenstein family estate . Since Count Ludwig August's mother, the extra at the Karlsruhe court theater Katharina Werner, was not befitting, he was out of the question for the succession of the Grand Dukes. He was also born “premaritally”.

Since Count Ludwig Wilhelm August remained childless, his sister Luise von Langenstein and Gondelsheim (1825–1900) inherited the estates and with it Langenstein Castle. In 1848 she married the Swedish nobleman Carl Israel Vilhelm Graf Douglas (1824–1898). His ancestor was Robert Count Douglas (1611–1662), a Scottish field marshal who was in Swedish service during the Thirty Years War and who founded the Swedish line of the Counts of Douglas, which has produced several important politicians and military.

After the end of the First World War, the abdicated Grand Duke Friedrich II of Baden lived with his wife, his mother Luise and his sister Viktoria , the Queen of Sweden at the time, as guests of Count Douglas at Langenstein Castle.

Langenstein Castle has been the main residence of the Douglas family since 1906. Axel Graf Douglas had a golf course laid out, the castle became a clubhouse, and the family moved into the former Ludwigshof inn. In 2014 he sold the castle to his cousin Christoph Graf Douglas , who died in 2016.

Country Club Schloss Langenstein

The Country Club Schloss Langenstein is located in Hegau, near the Swiss border, and has an 18-hole championship course, a 9-hole short course facility, two driving ranges (lawn tees, putting and pitching areas and covered tee boxes) and a clubhouse. Flora and fauna are preserved.

Carnival Museum

The Langenstein Carnival Museum was opened in 1969. The exhibitions focus on the history and manifestations of the Swabian-Alemannic carnival .

collection

It shows over 300 life-size fool figures with carnival bunnies and mostly wood-carved larvae . Further topics of the exhibition are "Carnival elements in annual customs", "Medieval folly" and "Masks, larvae, schemes". In addition, a collection of Zizenhausen terracottas has been on display since 1975 , made possible by the donation of Heinrich Wollheim (former violinist of the Berlin Philharmonic).

Alefanzorden of the Langenstein Castle Carnival Museum

The award has been presented annually at Mardi Gras since the 1970s. The winners will be proposed by several “loose choirs”. Prize winners were:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Graf and Zietlow play golf. In: Südkurier of July 26, 2011
  2. Weltkunst from September 12, 2016
  3. https://www.schloss-langenstein.com/
  4. Stephan Freissmann: An evening with double alefanz. In: Südkurier , January 13, 2020.

literature

  • Franz Götz, Alois Beck: Langenstein Castle and Lordship in Hegau (= Hegau Library 22, ZDB -ID 515001-2 ). Association for the history of the Hegaus, Singen 1972.
  • Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . Verlag Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 60-63.
  • Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Freiburg i. Br., 1887, first volume - Konstanz district; Pp. 391-394 online

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Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 34 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 10 ″  E