Helmstatt manor house
The Helmstätter Herrenhaus is a historic building in Heidelberg - Handschuhsheim . The listed building used today as a restaurant goes back to the Freiadlige Gut of the place, whose property was linked to the neighboring Tiefburg . After the destruction of the wars of the 17th century, the Lords of Helmstatt gave up the castle as a residence and instead built the manor house around 1700 on the site of an abandoned manor.
history
The property of the Hemstätter mansion has probably always belonged to the neighboring Tiefburg and was walled with it. On the site of the manor house there was probably a manor of the lords of the castle at that time, the Lords of Handschuhsheim, before 1600 . After their extinction, the castle and estate came to the Lords of Helmstatt in 1624. Castle, manor and place were devastated in the wars of the 17th century. The present mansion was built around 1700 by Georg Adam von Helmstatt and was inhabited by the count's family until 1930. For a long time it still formed a unit with the neighboring Tiefburg. The large courtyard gate of the manor house dates back to around 1600 and was probably once the main entrance to the castle complex. At the site of today's street An der Tiefburg , a garden belonging to the estate once extended. In the immediate vicinity of the manor house there were various farm buildings until recently. To the right of the manor house was the estate manager's house. Behind the residential and administrative buildings stretched a larger flower garden, behind it, parallel to the manor house, pig and chicken coops and, at right angles, horse, cow and sheep pen. The estate was bordered by a large barn, the cellar of which is presumably still preserved under the street An der Tiefburg . The barn had a rear exit to the area where the Protestant church and the rectory are today .
The Freiadlige Gut was inhabited and managed by Viktor von Helmstatt (1851-1935) until 1905. After his mother's death, he moved to Neckarbischofsheim and had the property run by the manager. His nephew Bleickard von Helmstatt (1871–1952) later took up residence there, but moved to Hochhausen Castle in 1930 . Since it became apparent that there would no longer be any male Helmstatt descendants, Bleickard von Helmstatt gradually sold the family's Handschuhsheim property after the death of his father Raban in 1932 and his uncle Viktor in 1935. The Freiadlige Gut acquired in 1935 Karl Kuhn. Later it came into the possession of Walter Niebel, who set up a restaurant in it.
literature
- Hans Heiberger: Handschuhsheim. Chronicle of a Heidelberg district , Heidelberg 1985, pp. 85/86.
- Eugen Holl and Hans Heiberger: The Tiefburg in Handschuhsheim and the Freiadlige Gut , in: District Association Handschuhsheim (ed.): Yearbook 2011 , Heidelberg 2011, pp. 11-13.
Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 41 ″ N , 8 ° 41 ′ 12.9 ″ E