Foyer de Charité (Ottrott)

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Foyer de Charité in Ottrott

The Foyer de Charité , dated Château de Windeck ( German  Castle Windeck ), is an 18th century mansion at 51 rue principale in the heart of the Alsatian town of Ottrott in the French canton of Molsheim . It has been used by a Foyer de Charité since 1965 .

The building is shared with its park as inscribed monument historique ( French Monument historique inscrit ) since October 19, 1992 under monument protection .

history

The Seigneurie Windeck was mentioned in a document as early as the Middle Ages . At that time it belonged to the Lords of Rathsamhausen zum Stein . In 1770 Joseph de Pascalis was Seigneur von Windeck. That year he had the manor house built today. After his death in 1786, the property belonged to some landowners from Strasbourg before Louis Joseph Laurent bought it in 1834. When he died the following year, the seigneurie came in 1835 to his son-in-law Armand Théodore de Dartein, the husband of Laurent's daughter Cécile. He enlarged the property through acquisitions, which subsequently made it possible to create a park in the English landscape style with ponds in the 1830s and 1840s . The existing ruins of a small medieval castle from around 1180 - called Alt (en) keller - were changed into a romantic staffage building at his behest using materials from Girbaden Castle and Niedermünster Monastery . He also had new farm buildings built in 1836 and 1841.

In 1858 Théodore de Dartein sold the property to Baron Léon Renouard de Bussière. He had the manor house changed in such a way that it then had a castle-like character. From his time as Herr von Windeck, for example, the round stair tower , which is placed in front of the mansion in the middle on its eastern front, comes from . He also redesigned and replanted the park. Many of the trees still standing in the park today were planted at that time. After Léon Renouard's death in 1893, his son Maurice inherited the property, who in turn bequeathed it to his daughter Marthe when he died in 1915. She used it as a holiday home with her husband François de Witt-Guizot, a grandson of François Guizot , and their children.

During the Second World War , the facility was requisitioned from 1941 onwards by the Waffen SS and used as a school for their helper corps . In 1944 Marthe de Witt-Guizot got the manor back. After her death in 1949, it remained in the joint ownership of her three daughters Suzanne, Françoise and Simone before Françoise became sole owner in 1952. After she died in 1954, her husband Guy Brocard sold part of the land to a building contractor, before he sold the rest of the property on February 15, 1965 to the Catholic association Foyer de Charité d'Alsace . He moved there with one of his branches the following month and has been using the property to this day. He also offers overnight accommodation for guests there.

description

The property is accessed from the north through a two-winged gate, the gate of which is supported by pillars . Behind the gate is a rectangular courtyard, which is flanked on its long sides by elongated, former farm buildings.

building

The manor house is a two-storey building in the Baroque style . It has a tiled mansard roof and is divided into nine axes by windows on its long sides . The entrance lies in the central axis, which is emphasized by a small triangular gable at the height of the eaves . Door and window openings have edging made of red house stone , which contrasts strongly with the brightly painted plaster of the building. The red is repeated in the corner cuboid at the corners of the building. On the south side of the garden, a pentagonal extension is in front of the facade on the ground floor. On the northeast side, the mansion was enlarged by a three-storey extension with a flat roof and stone balustrade . A round stair tower with a slate-covered conical roof and a weather vane is attached to the front . The tower shows a clock with a carved frame on the east side at the level of the top floor .

Garden and park

Video about the property

In the immediate vicinity of the mansion, to the west of it, lies a formal garden of around 400 square meters with shaped topiarys. South of the palace extends a more than ten hectares large landscaped park , considered jardin remarquable ( German  remarkable garden ) is classified. The park's ponds are connected by a network of irrigation channels. A total of 126 different plant species can be found in the park, including giant sequoias , ginkgos , Caucasian wingnuts and tulip trees . Many of them are well over 100 years old. One of the giant sequoia trees in the park is around 43 meters high, has a trunk circumference of over ten meters at a height of 1.50 meters and a trunk diameter of more than four meters. It is one of the largest trees of this type in Europe.

The park and garden are open to visitors every day - with a few exceptions - free of charge.

  • Stair tower of the manor house

  • Altkeller Castle ruins

  • English landscape park

  • Giant mammoth tree

literature

  • Felix Wolff: Alsatian Castle Lexicon. Directory of castles and chateaus in Alsace. Unchanged reprint of the 1908 edition. Weidlich, Frankfurt a. M. 1979, ISBN 3-8035-1008-2 , p. 263 (partly out of date).

Web links

Commons : Foyer de Charité  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry no. PA00085311 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on October 20, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Entry No. IA00075581 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on October 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Christine Heider: Archives de la région Alsace. Fonds de Bussière, sous-série 6 years 2013, p. 7 ( PDF ; 3.3 MB).
  4. ↑ a b Hôtellerie Parc du Windeck - Ottrott , accessed on October 20, 2019.
  5. ^ Entry of Altenkeller Castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on October 20, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b Christine Heider: Archives de la région Alsace. Fonds de Bussière, sous-série 6 years 2013, p. 8 ( PDF ; 3.3 MB).
  7. ↑ Christine Heider: Archives de la région Alsace. Fonds de Bussière, sous-série 6 years 2013, p. 9 ( PDF ; 3.3 MB).
  8. ^ Jutta Mühlenberg: The SS helper corps. Training, deployment and denazification of the female members of the Waffen-SS 1942–1949. Hamburg 2011, p. 175.
  9. ^ History of the branch on the website of the Foyers de Charité in Ottrot , accessed on October 20, 2019.
  10. ↑ Information according to geoportail.gouv.fr
  11. ↑ Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France (ed.): List of jardins labellisés "Jardin remarquable". January 8, 2019 ( PDF ; 680 kB).
  12. ↑ Information about the park on regionfrance.com , accessed October 20, 2019.
  13. ↑ Information about the tree on monumentaltrees.com , accessed on October 20, 2019.
  14. ^ Henri Ulrich: A propos d'une enquête sur Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl) Buchholz en Alsace. In: Annuaire de la société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Dambach-la-Ville, Barr, Obernai. Volume 35, 2001, No. 1, ISSN  0990-2473 , pp. 59-62.

Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '30.4 "  N , 7 ° 25' 42.6"  E