Heyls Schlößchen

This article or section needs to be revised. Details should be given on the talk page. Please help to improve it , and then remove this flag.

Heyls-Schlößchen, Worms, condition after reconstruction. View from the Schlossplatz.

Heyls-Schlößchen after renovation by Bruno Paul in 1905.

Crown Prince Ludwig IV of Hessen-Darmstadt and Cornelius Heyl at the Heyls-Schlößchen. Painting by Emil Hünten (1827–1902).

Heyls-Schlößchen is the name of a listed palace in Worms am Rhein . The address is "Schloßplatz 1".

Building history from 1843

The site at Schlossplatz in Worms, where the castle was later to be built, was acquired by Johann Cornelius Heyl in 1805 . In the meantime, however, the site has been sold to the Worms councilor Theodor Joseph Zell. The castle was built by Zell in 1843 on the former site of the medieval bishop's court. After it was acquired by the von Heyl family, the building was expanded in a representative style in 1851 in the classical style. In 1905, the architect Bruno Paul gave it an additional floor, some extensions and a mansard roof .

Reconstruction after 1945

The building was severely damaged in the war . It is thanks to the initiative of Liselotte Blank-Sommer as provisional city architect of Worms after the Second World War that the castle was preserved and rebuilt in a contemporary manner. The reconstruction was carried out by her future business partner and architect Heiner Saxer.

In the late 1940s, the side facing away from the cathedral was first provided with an emergency roof; the components facing the cathedral were only cleared of rubble and made usable on the ground floor. This condition was to be maintained for almost twenty years. It was not until the late 1960s that the builder Siegfried von Heyl zu Herrnsheim commissioned the reconstruction. For this purpose, the upper floor was removed from the right wing. The castle was now constructed in two full floors. The style of the reconstruction follows the architectural ideas of its time, especially the roof construction. There was no protrusion on the first floor above the entrance hall, so the floor extends across the entire width. The new part was plastered and can thus be distinguished from the historical part.

A bronze plaque is attached to the southeast corner of the building, reminding of the historical importance of the bishop's court, which stood here until 1799.

Coat of arms of the Heyl family

Todays use

The building is owned by the family. Commercial units are located on the ground floor, while the first floor is partially inhabited. During the Nibelungen Festival in Worms, the building is used for accompanying events.

literature

• Gerold Bönnen, Ferdinand Werner (ed.): The Worms industrialist family von Heyl - Public and private work between the bourgeoisie and the nobility. Wernerische Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2010, ISBN 978-3-88462-304-6 (building history of the castle from p. 192 ff.).

Web links

Commons : Heyls-Schlößchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Worms. ( Memento from June 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Mainz 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} , P. 17 (PDF; 5.0 MB).
2. ↑ Photo series on the history of the area around the cathedral> Stadt Worms. In: www.worms.de. Retrieved October 18, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Entry on Liselotte Blank-Sommer in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on October 19, 2016 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 49.8 "  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 36.6"  E