Huttenschlösschen (Würzburg)

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Huttenschlösschen in Sanderglacisstrasse
Corphaus 1910, view from the garden side

The Huttenschlösschen is a baroque property built around 1720 as a summer residence in Würzburg , which was badly damaged in the Second World War, then rebuilt and has been used as a corporation house by the student association Corps Rhenania Würzburg since 1884 .

Baroque representative object

Depiction of Prince-Bishop Christoph Franz von Hutten on his epitaph in the Würzburg Cathedral

The building was built around 1720 by the then cathedral dean and later Prince-Bishop Christoph Franz von Hutten (1673–1729) as a private summer palace ("Lusthaus") in a representative park. The architect was clearly Joseph Greissing († 1721) due to new archival finds. The garden facade of the palace was built between 1724 and 1729. With the building, the client wanted to underpin his claim to the position of prince-bishop, to which he was elected in 1725. The complex with castle and park was built in the south-west of the city directly outside of the city fortifications that were still in existence at the time. While the park was released for public use, the castle was reserved for the owner of the house. An inscription carved into the masonry testified the concept: publicae amoenitati et privatae salubritati (For public convenience and for one's own health).

In 1803 the von Hutten family sold the plot of land and the building. After that, the property had six different owners until 1884. When the demolition of Würzburg began around the middle of the 19th century, i.e. the dismantling of the old military fortifications, the park was increasingly divided by the construction of apartment buildings. In 1854 the Hutten'sche garden around the building was only a tenth of its original size and the property was becoming increasingly neglected.

Time as a corp house

In November 1884 the old rulers of the Corps Rhenania Würzburg acquired the land and buildings. The castle and especially the large ballroom were renovated, the stucco ceiling renewed and repainted.

In the course of regulating the banks of the Main, further urban development measures were carried out until around 1900, which significantly changed the area around the castle. During the construction of the Ludwigsbrücke and the Hochkais, the area around the castle was raised by 1.6 meters. The castle Hutten was therefore demolished in the years 1904/1905, the neighboring river Main to its present location (Sanderglacisstrasse 10) translocation and largely built by reconstruction of the staircase and the historic stucco ceilings with original material again and basement. The building was rotated by 90 degrees together with the two side gates, creating an axis relation to the new ring park. The garden plot around the building was reminiscent of its old function as a garden palace.

Two thirds of the building were damaged in the bombing raid on Würzburg on March 16, 1945 . The roof, the attic, the ceilings above the first floor and the ground floor, the balcony facing the street and the entire interior were destroyed. Only the massive outer and inner walls remained. The stucco ceiling of the hall, which was temporarily relocated to Munich, was also preserved. In 1950 the Corps Rhenania rebuilt the Huttenschloss. The topping-out ceremony for the reconstruction was celebrated on December 8, 1951.

  • Huttenschlösschen, rear view in 2010

  • Detail of the entrance gate

  • Signs on the building

literature

  • The Huttenschlösschen in Würzburg. The oldest corp house . In: Deutsche Corpszeitung 58 (1957), pp. 73-77
  • Guntram Althaus: Immerse the soul in cooling wine - the presentation of the ceiling painting in our ballroom on March 24, 1999 , in: Das Huttenschlößchen, news sheet of the old and young Würzburger Rhenanen , No. 101, August 1999, pp. 27–33
  • Bettina Amthor, Winfried Gaißer: The Huttenschloß . In: Das Huttenschlößchen , No. 100, March 1999, pp. 73-78 [with numerous other references]
  • Heinz Rötter: Castles in Lower Franconia , Coburg 1991
  • Kurt Stucke: The Huttenschlößchen - corp house of the Rhenania Würzburg . In: Kurt Stucke, Klaus Oskar Leyde (eds.), History of the Corps Rhenania Würzburg 1940–2000 , Rasch Verlag Bramsche, pp. 149–172
  • Kurt Stucke: The stucco ceiling in the ballroom of our Huttenschlößchen is the original of the Castelli brothers and not a cast . In: Das Huttenschlößchen , No. 103, August 2000, pp. 84–87

Web links

Commons : Huttenschlösschen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Mack: The builder and architect Joseph Greissing . Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86652-816-1 , p. 491-496 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: p. 638.
  3. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 947.
  4. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 658.

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 6.9 ″  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 44.6 ″  E