Court Chamber of the House of Württemberg

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Court Chamber of the House of Württemberg

logo
legal form one-man business
founding 1649/1677
Seat Friedrichshafen
management Carl Duke of Württemberg (CEO)
Branch Viticulture, forestry, property management
Website www.hofkammer.de

The court chamber of the House of Württemberg is a private commercial enterprise based in Friedrichshafen in the Lake Constance district in Baden-Württemberg owned by the House of Württemberg . The legal owner of the court chamber is Carl Herzog von Württemberg . The company headquarters was a long time in Schloss Altshausen , the former residence of Landkomturs the Deutschordensballei Schwaben-Alsace-Burgundy . It has been in Friedrichshafen Castle since 1965 . The company can be divided into three fields of activity: forestry , property management and viticulture .

history

The predecessor of the court chamber was the court domain chamber founded in 1649/1677, which played an important role in the structure of the Württemberg state and in the organization of the court. In 1910 the court domain chamber was renamed "Hofkammer". It remained with the regent family after King Wilhelm II abdicated and in 1921, after the death of the last Württemberg king, it passed to Albrecht Duke of Württemberg , the founder of the Catholic line of the royal family. From 1919 to 1933 the court chamber was named "Rentkammer des Würtemberg". Alfred Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , the father of the Hitler assassin on July 20, 1944, was her president until 1928 . In 1939, Philipp Albrecht Herzog von Württemberg took over the business enterprise, now again referred to as the court chamber, and managed it until his death in 1975.

After the accidental death of Friedrich Herzog von Württemberg , the company is currently managed by Carl Herzog von Württemberg ; The director of the court chamber is Henrik M. Lingenhölin.

Fields of activity

Viticulture

In 1289, viticulture in the Württemberg house can be documented for the first time. As early as 1649, the dukes of Württemberg separated their private assets from state property and had their private assets administered by a separate authority. Duke Eberhard III. Established the Kammerschreiberei that year , a forerunner of today's Hofkammer. A separate winery for the Kammerschreibererei vineyards was set up in 1677. In the centuries that followed, extensive acquisitions of vineyards were made in the Stuttgart region . From 1807 to 1810 the winery moved from Untertürkheim to the Old Castle in Stuttgart . At the beginning of the 1980s, the winery was moved to a newly constructed building on the site of the Monrepos domain near Ludwigsburg. In 1967 the construction of the Schlosshotel Monrepos began in the immediate vicinity of the Seeschloss Monrepos near Ludwigsburg . The hotel was expanded in 1975. Since 1993, a nine-hole golf course has been operated on part of the castle domain . The associated two granaries were converted into office buildings. 2003 was estate of the House of Württemberg Hofkammerkellerei in winery Duke of Württemberg renamed.

The winery is a member of the Association of German Predicate and Quality Wineries . It cultivates an area of ​​40.5 hectares . Produced white wine , red wine , champagne , Secco and fires . The main vineyards are the Untertürkheimer Mönchberg, Stettener Brotwasser, Mundelsheimer Käsberg, Maulbronner Eilfingerberg, Hohenhaslacher Kirchberg, Gündelbacher Steinbachhof and Wachtkopf. Around 17 hectares are used for red wine and 23 hectares for growing white wine. There is a modern vinotheque in the winery .

forestry

The forest enterprise cultivates a forest area of ​​5,000 hectares with 70% coniferous wood. The head office is in Altshausen in the Ravensburg district. In 1821 King Wilhelm I of Württemberg set up a separate administration for the royal family's forest property. With this decision he also made it clear that forest management need not be a monopoly of the state.

The annual logging is around 50,000 solid meters . 85% of the softwood is trunk wood . 17% of the logs are used as softwood. When hardwood is Book - and oak wood that comes in value wood quality on the market. The softwood is sold to local sawmills in Upper Swabia and Allgäu, and some are also sold on the nearby Italian, Austrian and Swiss markets. The classic buyer country for the hardwood, in this case barrel oak, is France . The wood is processed in the logging company by own and external companies. The Hofkammer also looks after foreign private or communal forest property, organizes logging, wood sales and forest maintenance and carries out forest swap projects.

Even deer and wild boar are offered by the Forest Service for sale.

Property management

Former head office of the Hofkammer in Altshausen Castle

The company manages around 70 of its own properties, some of which are listed . In 1992 the Hofkammer Projektentwicklung GmbH (HKPE) was founded for the planning and execution of own and third-party building projects . Another field of activity is residential construction, industrial and commercial construction, renovations, development of building land and project management from planning to key handover. The seat of the administration of the real estate, which operates in the company Hofkammer Grundstücksgesellschaft GmbH + Co KG and the HKPE Hofkammer Projektentwicklung GmbH, is Monrepos 9/71634 Ludwigsburg. There is also the HKEG Hofkammer Erbbaugrundstücksgesellschaft mbH + Co KG, which administers leasehold properties, as well as other companies.

The logo is derived from the family coat of arms of the House of Württemberg: In a golden ellipse there are three black stag poles lying one above the other. These deer sticks have been handed down from the first known seal impression made by Count Konrad in 1228. The royal crown is attached above the ellipse.

literature

  • Eberhard Fritz : The court domain chamber in the Kingdom of Württemberg. For the asset management of the House of Württemberg. In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 56/1997, pp. 127–180.
  • Eberhard Fritz : Agriculture or Industry? The kings of Württemberg as entrepreneurs. In: Manfred Rasch, Toni Pierenkemper, Norbert Reimann (ed.): Nobility as entrepreneurs in the bourgeois age. Münster 2006, pp. 249-263.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Südkurier : Friedrichshafen - Das Haus Württemberg , December 8, 2008.
  2. ^ Predicate wineries in the Württemberg region , accessed on May 1, 2011

Web links

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