Karlsburg (castle)
The Karlsburg is a castle in the Durlach district of Karlsruhe , which was the residence of the margraves of Baden-Durlach from the mid-16th to the early 18th century.
It is not known why Margrave Karl II , until then residing in Pforzheim , negotiated with the Durlachers in 1563 and what Durlach offered him. From 1563 he decided to expand his father Margrave Ernst's existing hunting lodge , which in turn was based on a presumed moated castle or deep castle , into a castle and to move his residence there in 1565. From this first phase of the residential palace, only the so-called princess building - renovated several times - remains.
His successors enlarged the palace and palace complex until French troops burned the city and palace down in August 1689. Reconstruction only began in the winter of 1698/1699 after Margrave Friedrich Magnus returned from exile in Basel. Oversized planned and in a time of complete poverty and destruction, there were disputes with the Durlach citizens, some of whom refused to do the necessary labor. In 1701 the external work was probably mainly due to new war burdens as a result of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), and around 1703 the interior work on the new castle was finally stopped after only two castle wings had been completed and the margrave family moved in.
His son and successor Margrave Karl Wilhelm decided in 1715 to relocate his residence outside of Durlach by building a completely new castle - which also meant the founding of the city of Karlsruhe . The court moved to the new castle in 1718. Only the margravine stayed in Durlach until her death in 1743.
The Karlsburg then developed from the old residence to the administrative and official seat and in the meantime served as barracks. The Pfinzgau Museum has been housed there since 1924 . In 1964 a wing was torn down to make room for the Durlach Castle School. The castle was extensively renovated from 1973 to 1988. Today the Karlsburg is home to the Durlach registry office, the Pfinzgaumuseum, the Carpathian German Museum, classrooms for the adult education center and the Markgrafen grammar school , the historical ballroom and the Durlach library.
literature
- Hans Rott : Art and artists at the Baden-Durlacher Hof until the founding of Karlsruhe. CF Müllersche Hofbuchhandlung, Karlsruhe 1917.
- Hermann Eris Busse (Ed.): The Enz and Pfinzgau . G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1925.
- Martin Bachmann : The Karlsburg. Traces of the residential complex in the urban fabric of Durlach. Institute for Building History, Karlsruhe 2000.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Eris Busse (ed.): The Enz and Pfinzgau . G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1925. pp. 268f.
- ^ Martin Bachmann: The Karlsburg. Traces of the residential complex in the urban fabric of Durlach. Institute for Building History, Karlsruhe 2000. p. 15.
- ↑ Bachmann, Die Karlsburg , pp. 53–54.
Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′ 54.6 " N , 8 ° 28 ′ 25.8" E