Hunting lodge Carlsruhe

The former hunting lodge and rectory ( street view towards the south )

View of the inner courtyard

The former stately Carlsruhe or Jagdschlösschen Carlsruhe (also called Löwensteiner Jagdschlösschen ) was actually a rectory and hunting lodge at the same time. The facility is located in the Sandbach district of the city of Breuberg in the Odenwaldkreis in Hesse ( Germany ).

location

The property is located at Höchster Straße 6 (156 m above sea level ) in Sandbach in an almost central location north above the Mümlingtal , which runs eastwards from Höchst to Obernburg am Main , and is west of Breuberg Castle . The place Sandbach is located in the northern Odenwald on the border between the Odenwaldkreis and the eastern tip of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, only a few kilometers from the Main and Lower Franconia .

history

View from the west with the remains of the strong surrounding wall

Prince Karl Thomas zu Löwenstein, who gave the hunting lodge its name

Between 1398 and 1400 the place Sandbach is an electoral Palatinate fief of the Henne forester von Gelnhausen . In 1450 the rulership of Breuberg has a fruit and money gap. In 1557 the lordship of Breuberg then also had all high and low authority, command and prohibition . In 1787, half of Sandbach was owned by the County of Erbach- Schönberg, half of which owned Breuberg, and the other half belonged to the Principality of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort . In 1806 the entire Breubergischen Zent Höchst came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

In 1483, a tavern courtyard belonging to Schenk Adolar von Erbach was named on the present site . In 1684 a manor house from Erbach is mentioned. The plan, probably from 1754, to build a hunting lodge in Sandbach was only implemented in a very mild form. Construction probably began as early as 1756.

The castle was built between 1768 and 1772 by order of the princes of Löwenstein . It was to be built as a Protestant rectory, the upper floor of which was also to be the hunting lodge of Prince Karl Thomas zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort . In 1772 the building called Carlsruhe was finished.

description

The stately, two-winged, zehnachsige in the frontage baroque with bilateral gambrel (mansard hipped ) provided on the road side in the steep roof area two dormer windows has, is an elongated L-shaped building. It was made solid on the ground floor and plastered half-timbering on the first floor . The upper floor was with Rococo - stucco decorated. The shorter side of the property faces away from the street to the south. The gable ends are covered with the wooden shingles typical of the old Odenwald houses . The entrance, protected by a wooden shingle roof, is on the courtyard side. In the building facing the garden there are two vaulted cellar entrances. The area still shows the remains of the strong wall system, which presumably surrounded the whole area except for the street front.

Todays use

The property is designated as a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act and is today a Protestant parish hall.

literature

Peter and Marion Sattler: Burgen und Schlösser im Odenwald , Verlag Edition Diesbach, Weinheim 2004, ISBN 3-936468-24-9 , p. 52

Web links

Commons : Jagdschlösschen Carlsruhe - Collection of images, videos and audio files

State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Former parish and hunting lodge In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse