Manor house (Franconian Crumbach)
The manor house of the lords of Gemmingen-Hornberg (also the castle of the lords of Gemmingen ) is a noble seat in Franconian-Crumbach in the Odenwaldkreis in Hesse . It has been in the possession of the Barons of Gemmingen since the late 17th century , and they still live there today.
history
The manor house was built from 1572 to 1574 by Philipp von Rodenstein and his first wife Margarethe, née von Habern, as a permanent house . It is possible that an older complex was located here before - the original seat of the Rodensteiners before the construction of Rodenstein Castle (previously: Lords of Crumbach ) is being sought in Franconian-Crumbach. In 1575, parts of a curtain wall are said to have been visible.
A few decades later, the building was destroyed down to the cellar in the Thirty Years War . Neidhart von Rodenstein had it rebuilt in 1645. As early as 1650 it was sold to Carl von Rabenhaupt , who has called himself Herr zu Crumbach since then . His widow Maria Dorothea married Baron Weiprecht von Gemmingen (1642–1702) in 1693 , who founded an older line of the family there.
The facility was modernized in the 18th century, and in the 1780s, after the death of Weiprecht's grandchildren, the property passed to the Treschklingen branch of the Lords of Gemmingen. Adolph von Gemmingen (1822–1902) had the Sarolta Chapel built in the adjoining palace gardens in 1892 as a mausoleum for his late wife. The castle is still inhabited by the von Gemmingen family and cannot be visited.
investment
The mansion forms a unit with the cellar (today the local history museum) and the Evangelical parish church with gentlemen's stalls and the gravestones of the Rodensteiner, which are important in terms of art history. To the east is a formerly baroque park with the neo-Romanesque-Byzantine Sarolta chapel . The complex also includes an extensive, rectangular estate.
The actual castle is a simple, seven-axis building with representative dimensions. The upper floor consists of half-timbering with a plastered stone imitation, the gables are shingled. On the courtyard side, the building is accessed via a two-flight flight of stairs with a baroque portal from the 18th century. On the front side is the Rodenstein coat of arms (Philipp von Rodenstein and Margarethe, née von Habern ).
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Hessen. (Ed .: Magnus Backes), 2nd edition, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00380-0 , p. 230.
- Hans Teubner and Sonja Bonin: Cultural monuments in Hesse. Odenwaldkreis. Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1998 ( Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany ), ISBN 3-528-06242-8 , pp. 328-330.
- Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 117.
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Hrsg.): Castle of the Lords of Gemmingen In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 45.8 " N , 8 ° 51 ′ 26.7" E