Filseck Castle

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Filseck Castle, view from the B10

Filseck Castle is located high above the B 10 between the towns of Faurndau and Uhingen with a view of the Filstal and Hohenstaufen between the Buckelwiese and Filsecker Feld . The castle belongs to the city of Uhingen in Baden-Württemberg . It can be reached on foot or by bike from Uhingen or by car via Faurndau in the direction of Sparwiesen (part of Uhingen).

architecture

Filseck Castle, east wing with farm buildings
patio

Today Filseck Castle is a closed four-wing building in the Renaissance style with a vaulted cellar from the Staufer period . The floor plan of the previous castle in the Staufer era was - according to evidence of archaeological emergency excavations during the restoration in the 1990s - still quite simple, consisting of an inhabited north tower and fortification walls . In 1596/97, Burkhard von Berlichingen , including the Staufer residential tower , built today's north wing. In 1736 Karl Magnus Freiherr von Ertingen (or Ertringen) placed the second floor on the East Wing of the Staufer, creating a four-wing castle at the same ridge height. In 1850 a modern farm building was built. The castle wings were given stucco ceilings , the outer walls a new plaster .

history

Today's palace emerged from a castle that was probably built around 1230 by Count Egino von Aichelberg . In 1268 the knight Ernst von Filseck is mentioned in a document. Since he was an Aichelberg servant , it is likely that the castle was still owned by the Aichelbergs at that time. The family remained the owner until 1318, when Diepold von Aichelberg and his sons sold the castle to Eberhard I von Württemberg , from whom it was given to the Reuss von Reußenstein family around 1350, who owned it for around 200 years.

In 1568 the Reuss family sold the imperial manor to the Göppingen mayor Balthasar Moser , from whom Dietrich von Gemmingen acquired it only five years later . He sold the little profitable property in 1596 to Burkhardt von Berlichingen, who in 1597/98 began to replace the old castle with a more homely castle in the Renaissance style. Today's north wing and part of the east wing were roughly given their current shape. Burkhardt left the new building to his five heirs in 1608, in particular Anna Margaretha and her husband Colonel Otto von Vohenstein. In 1648 their son-in-law, Major Matthias Georg Fischer von Rob, took over the facility, which was owned by his son Ludwig Friedrich and his wife Anna Elisabeth, née until 1706. Neubronner von Eisenburg stayed.

In 1707, Schloss Filseck came through Ludwig Friedrich's second wife to Lieutenant Colonel Johann Ludwig Emigius von Zweiffel , who sold it to the Cistercian monastery Schöntal / Jagst in 1710 . A short time later, Abbot Benedikt Knittel had a palace chapel set up. Already in 1721 the monastery was the possession Filsecks and sold the system to lieutenant general Baron Carl Magnus Leutrum of Ertingen . The eastern wing structure, the Charlottenhof, named after his wife, and the palace gardens and avenues were built under him around 1733 . In 1739 the castle was in the possession of Count Christoph Martin II of Degenfeld-Schonburg in Eybach as a pledge. Ten years later, the completely indebted property went bankrupt to the main creditor, the Augsburg banker Christian I von Münch , whose family remained the owners until the male line died out in 1920. Under her, the new southern economic building was built in 1851. When the last male offspring, Oskar von Münch , died in a Heilbronn sanatorium in 1920 , the castle came to his family through Oskar's only sister Gabriele, wife of Baron Arnold von Podewils . Like their predecessors, they did not live in or manage the complex themselves, but leased Filseck to the Waggershauser family from 1906 to 1968. After Gabriele's death in 1953, Podewils' second wife Margarete, née von Rohr, inherited the estate.

Fire and reconstruction

Filseck Castle Exterior view from the southeast

On May 8, 1971, the farm buildings forming the west and south wings burned down. Margarethe von Podewils then sold the system to the Stuttgart company Dr. Manfred Beck. After the fire, numerous possible uses of the castle, be it by private or public institutions, were considered. They failed not least because of the economic viability, although the system had been included in the state's priority program for monument preservation since 1979 with a subsidy of 900,000 euros . Although the roof was re-covered in 1975/76, the destruction caused by vandalism continued. The district of Göppingen acquired the castle in 1986 in order to include it in the monument utilization program of the state of Baden-Württemberg. Thus another 6.70 million euros in funding was raised. In 1988 the external development was carried out and the supply and disposal facilities of the property were established. The reconstruction and renovation work began in May 1989 and was completed in 1993. The inauguration was celebrated in June 1994. In the end, the renovation and new construction cost around 11.5 million euros.

Since January 1, 2008, the facility has been owned by the Schloss Filseck Foundation of the Kreissparkasse Göppingen, which has gradually modernized the castle and expanded it into a contemporary event and conference venue with catering. In the outdoor area, a perennial garden and a pomology were created and the palace gardens were restored based on the 19th century model. In May 2019, a landscape park was also opened, which opens up the adjoining landscape up to the Charlottensee in three different sized circular paths and offers numerous adventure stations (including high ropes avenue, floating path, ball nest).

Todays use

Filseck Castle, information boards
Filseck Castle entrance gate
Filseck Castle, Castle Garden

Today, the castle has a variety of functions as a recreational destination, conference venue and cultural meeting place (e.g. as a place for exhibitions or the concert series of music at Filseck Castle ) and houses various institutions and facilities:


  • the district archive of the Göppingen district
  • the district archeology of the district of Göppingen
  • the GC Kirchberger archive , which preserves material on the life and work of the hard edge painter and avant-garde artist Günther C. Kirchberger (1928–2010)
  • the gallery in the east wing on the first floor, where exhibitions are regularly organized by the Kunsthalle Göppingen and the GC Kirchberger archive
  • the information center on the ground floor with a small permanent exhibition and a multimedia presentation on the history of the castle
  • the restaurant Schloss Filseck
  • the castle tavern with beer garden
  • the various halls for meetings, parties and events (see below)


as well as outdoors:

  • the playground
  • the perennial garden
  • the green classroom
  • as well as the connected landscape park with various circular routes



The halls of Filseck Castle:

In the Dürnitz

The hall once served the castle team as a lounge, at the beginning of the 18th century as a chapel for the Schöntal / Jagst monastery and then as a coach house. Today the hall serves as a room for the castle restaurant, in the floor of which there is a wall from the Hohenstaufen era, archaeological finds in a wall cabinet and a battle picture by a Dutch painter.

The Berlichingen Hall

This hall with its 36 seats is reminiscent of the builder of the castle. It is adorned with a cast - iron box stove from 1598, designed according to the remains of the original, with a tiled top.

The Münch Hall

This hall with its 60 seats is reminiscent of the Augsburg patrician and banker family von Münch, who owned the castle from 1749 to 1920. The hall was restored after restoration findings. Ornamental paintings, banded half-timbering and compartments as well as paneling characterize the Renaissance room.

District spaces

The three rooms in the north-west corner of the upper floor are used by the district. They can be rented for events from the district administration. They can only be managed by the restaurant's tenant.

The Leutrum Hall

This hall (50 seats) with bandel stucco from the Rococo period is reminiscent of Baron Carl Magnus Leutrum von Ertingen .

The Waggershauser room

This room (12 places) commemorates the family who drove around the estate as tenants from 1906 to 1968. A painted Biedermeier cupboard and a landscape painting by the Filseck-born painter Eugen Wolff-Filseck (1873–1937) decorate the room.

The Moser Hall

This room in the west wing (50–80 seats) is dedicated to the family who owned Filseck for a short time in the 16th century. Its member Johann Jacob Moser was one of the most important European constitutional lawyers of the 18th century.

literature

  • Walter Ziegler , Friends of Filseck Castle: Filseck Castle: Things worth knowing and interesting . Sponsorship group Schloss Filseck, Göppingen 2005.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Filseck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The Lords of Filseck on the website of the sponsorship group Schloss Filseck , accessed on September 16, 2012.

Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 3 ″  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 16 ″  E