Löwsche Castle (Steinfurth)

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View from the street side

The Löw'sche Schloss is a castle from the early 19th century in Steinfurth , town of Bad Nauheim in the Wetterau district in Hesse . Today's castle had an older predecessor, the presumed ancestral seat of the Löw von Steinfurth family .

history

View of Steinfurth with an allegory of the heraldic animals of the Löw von Steinfurth in the Thesaurus Philopoliticus
Entrance on the courtyard side

The noble family of Löw von Steinfurth first appeared at the beginning of the 14th century. A relationship to the Kranich von Kransberg is obvious. The family's property in Steinfurth was first mentioned in documents in 1311 as an Electoral Mainz court loan.

The place is slightly elevated in a flat valley, through which the weather flows through an arch. In the center of the village there was a castle seat ( permanent house ) belonging to the family with a multi-storey residential tower and four guard houses . It can be found on a view of the place from the Thesaurus Philopoliticus by Eberhard Kieser from 1624, which also contains an allegory with the heraldic animals of the Löw von Steinfurth.

Whether this castle seat was destroyed or demolished in the 17th or 18th century, possibly as a result of the Thirty Years War or because of dilapidation, cannot be said more precisely due to a lack of sources. On the right in front of the tower, in Kieser's view, a courtyard complex with the hood of a stair tower can be seen in place of the current castle building. Four larger leasehold farms belonging to the Löw family are documented in Steinfurth, two of which were outside the town center.

Today's manor house

Today's mansion in the center of the village (Steinfurther Hauptstrasse 36) was built at the beginning of the 19th century. The local church chronicle reports in 1857 that it was built about 50 years ago. Stylistic features of classicism also date it to the first quarter of the 19th century.

The castle is a two-story mansion on a U-shaped floor plan that opens to the southwest. The building is accessed from the courtyard side via an outside staircase. On the street side, the building structure is structured by the two gable fields of the wing roof.

A park and farm building that used to belong to the castle was sold in the 1920s when the family ran into financial difficulties. Between the 1930s and 1970s there was a grocery store on the ground floor of the castle building, and a doctor's practice on the first floor at times. In 1989 the castle was also sold by the Löw von und zu Steinfurth family. The new owners had it restored from a historical preservation perspective. Today there is a hotel in it.

literature

Web links

Commons : Löwsches Schloss (Steinfurth)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Valentin Ferdinand Gudenus : Codex diplomaticus sive anecdotorum res Moguntinas, Francias, Treverensis, Coloniensis finitimarumque regionum nec non ius Germanicarum SRI historiam vel maxime illustrantium, Volume 3 , 1751, p. 67f., No. LIV.
  2. ^ Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, p. 342f. ISBN 3-86134-228-6 .
  3. ^ Reimer Stobbe: Die Löw von Steinfurth. The story of the "Herrenhaus von Löw" in Steinfurth on the occasion of its restoration in 1994. Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1994, p. 47f.
  4. ^ Reimer Stobbe: Die Löw von Steinfurth. The story of the »Herrenhaus von Löw« in Steinfurth on the occasion of its restoration in 1994. Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1994, p. 49f.
  5. ↑ Heinz Wionski: cultural monuments in Hesse. Wetteraukreis II, Part 1, Bad Nauheim to Florstadt. Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, p. 216.
  6. ^ Reimer Stobbe: Die Löw von Steinfurth. The story of the »Herrenhaus von Löw« in Steinfurth on the occasion of its restoration in 1994. Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1994, p. 53.

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 55.8 "  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 47.2"  E