Koeth-Wanscheidsche Castle

Koeth-Wanscheidsche Castle
Koeth-Wanscheidsches Castle, Northern View from Castle Park ago
Data
place	Dirmstein
Architectural style	Baroque, classicism
Construction year	1715-1718
Coordinates	49 ° 33 '52 "  N , 8 ° 14' 40"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '52 "  N , 8 ° 14' 40"  E
Map from 1746

The Koeth-Wanscheidsche Schloss in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Dirmstein is a large castle-like mansion , the components of which today come mainly from the late Baroque and Classicism . It is largely a listed building .

After the sale of the property (2012) by the local community as the previous owner and after renovation by the German Senior Citizens Support and Sickness Aid Regional Association Worms e. V. (DSK) has been operating the Schlossparkklinik Dirmstein there since June 2015 , a private clinic for psychiatry , psychotherapy and psychosomatics .

Geographical location

Castle Park

The castle is located on the north-western edge of the historic center of Dirmstein, which is still called Oberdorf today because of its location at the top of the Eckbach . The south front and inner courtyard face the Herrengasse , the east wing borders the street Obertor as a gatehouse with its northern side . The further north facade faces the castle park , the southeast end of which is formed by the castle.

building

The old building ensemble was grouped in a horseshoe shape around a large paved inner courtyard, which is still visually open to the south, towards Herrengasse ; it is closed off by a low sandstone plinth with a picket fence and is accessible via a central gate with sandstone pillars. On both sides of the gate there were initially four and later two old Norway maple trees , which decades ago were protected as a natural monument with the number ND-7332-521 under the name " Four old maple trees " .

On the west and east flanks of the courtyard stood the two so-called Remisen , cubic outbuildings from the beginning of the 19th century, which are structured by stepped blind arches and continuous cornices .

The center of the horseshoe formed the actual castle, which consists of the central building and two lower side wings.

Building history

"View of Dirmstein in the Palatinate and the von Camuzi'schen Castle", painting by Louis Coblitz , 1862

In the middle of the 18th century, the Baden-Durlach court advisor Wolfgang Wilhelm von Rießmann was the first known owner of the palace. At that time the ditch for the village fortifications ran along the north side of the property, the palace park did not yet exist. On the map of 1746 - see above - was entered:

"H. v. Risman's house against the alleys of holtz u. the newe against the digging of stone; including two Scheuren, also both from Holtz "

The central stone building referred to in this source as the "new" house was built using wooden beams that, according to dendrochronological studies, date from the years 1715–1718 and can therefore be assigned to the same reconstruction phase as the old town hall , the St. Michael Pharmacy or the house at Marktstrasse 1 . This proves that the castle's predecessor property had also been destroyed when Dirmstein was almost completely burned down by French troops in 1689 in the Palatinate War of Succession .

In the second half of the 18th century, ownership of the castle by Rießmann passed to the von Haumüller family , who had been raised to the hereditary nobility in the 17th century. From 1765 at the latest, the castle was owned by the Elector Palatine officer Georg August Heinrich von Kinckel (1841–1827). When the French Revolution attacked the Palatinate at the end of the 18th century , this was to be expropriated and the facility was to be auctioned. But Kinckel sold the castle and his property in Heimsheim near Alzey, which was also threatened with confiscation, on November 6, 1796 for 24,000 guilders to his brother Heinrich August von Kinckel (1747-1821), who enjoyed immunity as a Dutch vice admiral and diplomat .

Joseph von Camuzi bought the facility from him on December 2, 1802 . His son Gideon - later, from 1868 to 1874, mayor - and his family expanded the area to the north beyond the previous town limits by buying land behind the old village ditch between 1824 and 1837. Gideon von Camuzi was friends with the Mannheim painter Louis Coblitz , who stayed here in the palace in the summer of 1861 and made several pictures of Dirmstein.

Pictures from the time before the conversion to the clinic

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  West wing

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  Castle from the southwest

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  Central building from the south

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  North side

Refurbishment, reconstruction and current use

At the beginning of the new millennium, the palace was completely restored on the outside and essential parts on the inside. For a long time the search for an investor who would undertake a complete renovation was in vain. Above all, the requirements of the monument protection authority not to open the large roof areas with dormers and thus to forego the use of the storage space, deterred interested parties.

In 2012 the local community Dirmstein sold the property to the Worms regional association of the German Senior Citizens Support and Sickness Aid (DSK). The sponsor of senior centers renovated the castle in coordination with monument and fire protection. In June 2015 the Schlossparkklinik Dirmstein was opened there, with 52 beds.

The therapy rooms and staff offices are located in the main building; the vaulted cellar has been converted into an indoor archery range. The facade of the Westremise could be preserved and repaired, while the ailing remaining part of the building had to be completely demolished and rebuilt. The ground floor houses the reception, administration, restaurant, library and smoking lounge. A new building was added to the Westremise, which includes patient rooms as well as a relaxation area with a pool, sauna, blue box and relaxation room. A glass bridge was used as a transition between the castle and the west depot or between the patient wing and therapy rooms. The eastern remise was mainly renovated with regard to the facade. Their use has not yet been determined; The Remise can be used as an expansion reserve for storage purposes or to expand the bed capacity, as required.

literature

• Georg Peter Karn, Ute-Konstanze Rasp: Castles and palaces in Dirmstein - Former Koeth-Wanscheidsches Schloss . In: Michael Martin (Ed.): Dirmstein. Nobility, peasants and citizens . Chronicle of the Dirmstein community (=  Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research ). tape 6 . Self-published by the foundation, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2005, ISBN 3-9808304-6-2 , p. 454 ff .
• Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber (arrangement): Bad Dürkheim district. City of Grünstadt, Union communities Freinsheim, Grünstadt-Land and Hettenleidelheim (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2006, ISBN 3-88462-215-3 .

Web links

Commons : Koeth-Wanscheidsches Schloss (Dirmstein)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Schlossparkklinik Dirmstein , operator website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate . 2006.
2. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 28 (PDF; 5.1 MB).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Schlossparkklinik Dirmstein. German Seniors and Sickness Assistance, accessed on March 26, 2016 . 
4. ↑ The names Oberdorf and Niederdorf for the two settlement centers of the municipality are derived from the location above and below at the Eckbach , which flows through Dirmstein from west to east.
5. ↑ Bird chart from 1746 . In: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt . P. 1, 418.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Georg Peter Karn, Ute-Konstanze Rasp: Castles and palaces in Dirmstein - Former Koeth-Wanscheidsches Schloss . In: Michael Martin (ed.): Dirmstein - nobility, farmers and citizens . 2005, p. 454 ff .
7. ^ Karl Hugo Popp and Hans Riexinger : On the history of the Heilbronn family Künckelin / von Kinckel . In: Historischer Verein Heilbronn (Ed.): Yearbook 30 . 1983, p. 145-166 .