Hardheim Castle

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Hardheim Castle
Bridge and entrance portal

The Hardheimer Castle , also Upper Castle called, is one from 1561, built this elegant property in the center of the community Hardheim on the northeastern edge of the Neckar-Odenwald district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle has its origins in a moated castle , which was mentioned as early as 1324 and 1326 together with the Lower Hardheim Castle and which Werner von Hardheim assigned to the ore monastery of Mainz as a fief . This line died out in 1435. During the Peasant War in 1525 , the Upper Castle was plundered but not destroyed.

The property was converted into a castle by Urban Khaltschmid from Lindau on behalf of Junkers Wolf von Hardheim and his wife Margareta von Berlichingen from 1561 . The castle was the headquarters of the second line of the Lords of Hardheim. With the death of Wolf von Hardheim in 1607, the knight family in Hardheim died out. Only after lengthy inheritance disputes did the castle become the property of the Würzburg diocese in 1630 and became the seat of the Hardheim office . In 1803 the principality of Leiningen became the owner of the castle. Only three years later it came to the Grand Duchy of Baden .

Used as a school since 1807, Hardheim acquired the property from the Grand Duchy in 1858. In the period that followed, it was used as a school and for church purposes, before it was used as the town hall from 1927 or 1929 and the municipal administration moved its headquarters to the castle.

From 1985 to 1988 the castle was extensively renovated . The moat around the castle was filled in and is now used as a garden with a small pond.

description

The almost square, mostly three-storey property is flanked on the entrance side, a portal entrance with two large individual full coats of arms and the names of the first owners, by two massive corner towers, which have almost the same eaves height and are now provided with a baroque hood. Access is via a stone bridge that used to cross the moat. On the right edge of the building opposite, a stair tower is integrated into the building , slightly set back .

literature

  • Peter and Marion Sattler: Burgen und Schlösser im Odenwald , Verlag Edition Diesbach, Weinheim 2004, ISBN 3-936468-24-9 , p. 112 f.
  • Castles and palaces in the Rhine-Neckar triangle: Everything you need to know about the 128 castle complexes in North Baden, South Hesse and the Upper Palatinate , Schwetzingen 2000, Schimper-Verlag, ISBN 978-3877421512 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sattler: Castles and Palaces in the Odenwald , p. 112
  2. ↑ after Sattler: Castles and Palaces in the Odenwald p. 112 or www.burgenwelt.de
  3. ^ Website of the community

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '32.1 "  N , 9 ° 28' 29.7"  E