Lautersches Schlösschen

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Lauter'sche Schlösschen from the entrance side
Lauterschlösschen from behind

The Lauter'sche Schlösschen or Lauterschlösschen is a medieval castle and today's seat of the Bergwinkel Museum in a small green area opposite the new town hall from Schlüchtern ( Schlossstrasse 15 ), in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse . The former building, also called Trimbergsches Hofgut , is the oldest secular building in the city.

history

The Trimbergsche Hofgut was mentioned in 1338 as "Steinhus zu Sluchtern". In 1362 Konrad von Trimberg gave up the monastic Vogthof Sanne , the widow of Hermann von Schlüchtern , as a fief . Around 1440 the property came to Hans von Lauter , who had his fiefdom rebuilt and expanded.

In the course of the Thirty Years' War the castle was damaged and rebuilt in 1675 for Hans Ernst von Lauter.

The other owners are named von Dehn-Rothfels in 1688 and the salt administrator Wilhelm Stickel in 1798 through purchase. The Grimm brothers from Steinau were welcome guests of Stickel . Her brother Ludwig Emil Grimm describes the property in his memoirs:

“The Stickel family lives very close to Schlüchtern in an old house (called the Schlößchen), built from stone to top. It is surrounded by water and you can get to the castle via a drawbridge. The whole thing is surrounded by an orchard, to which the Kinzig flows. ... A coat of arms was carved in stone over the gate, ... “ .

In 1819 Moritz Zinkhan bought the castle for 4,500 guilders. The castle remained in the possession until Zinkhan's death in 1851. In 1902 the castle came to the city of Schlüchtern. After structural modifications, the castle was home to the official residence of the mayor and the Weitzelbibliothek.

After the Second World War , the castle was occupied by the American occupation forces in 1947-48 and then served as the seat of the tribunal for the denazification of former party members. The palace also housed an office for the European Academy (until 1951) and the library of the Amerika-Haus.

After renovations in 1970-71, the "Bergwinkel Museum " moved into the castle as the local museum of the town of Schlüchtern. From 1978 to 1982 the castle was gutted, given a new, modern room layout and rebuilt to accommodate the museum.

Building description

Today the castle shows a three-storey, late Gothic mansion with corner hump square and steep gable roof as well as a Gothic portal and rectangular twin windows . In the city view of Schlüchtern from 1626 by Daniel Meissner for his Political Treasure Chest , the castle is still drawn with a stair tower in front of it , but which probably went down again with the destruction in the Thirty Years War. With the Lauter'schen Schlösschen, a simple fixed house has been preserved, which can be seen as a typical representative of this architectural form of the late Middle Ages , but is still based entirely on the high-medieval representational architecture.

In addition to the Gothic coat of arms above the sandstone - Portal , a typical Gothic portal with light pointed arch and Birnstab -profiling, there are side level with the second floor of a staggered Baroque coat of arms with a suspended semicircle gable and the inscription:

“In the year 1675 I, Hans Ernst von Lauter, councilor of Bamberg , Oberschultheiß, also bailiff of Höchstadt and Wachenroth , who I am still alive with my marital heirs from the old Lauter line, this castle was damaged in the war Let children in Hessen rebuild ” .

Both coats of arms are reminiscent of the Lauter family.

literature

  • Folkhard Cremer (edit.): " Dehio , Handbook of German Art Monuments " Hessen II - Darmstadt administrative region . Berlin 2008, p. 722.
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 2nd Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 371.
  • Burkhard Kling, Roland Dieckmann: The most beautiful palaces and fortresses in the Spessart. Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2001, ISBN 3-8313-1076-9 , pp. 6-7.

Web links

Commons : Lauterschlösschen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kling, Dieckmann: The most beautiful palaces and fortresses in the Spessart. P. 7.

Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 51.2 ″  N , 9 ° 31 ′ 21.5 ″  E