Leininger Castle

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The Guntersblum Leininger Castle

The Leininger Castle in Guntersblum , Rhineland-Hesse, is a castle with an important history. Today it is considered a cultural monument .

history

The consequences of the Palatinate War of Succession prompted the local lordship of the County of Leiningen - Dagsburg - Falkenburg to choose Guntersblum as their residence. The choice of the location of their residence in Guntersblum finally fell on the Moser'sche Gut (today in parts of the Homburger Hof ), whose owner owned large parts of what was then Guntersblum. Jacob von Campoing, who was also the heir and owner of Mettenheim , finally bought the estate on March 22, 1704 for 6,000 guilders . The choice of the location fell on a place on the border of the property, right next to the former village ditch, today's Guntersblum Promenade .

In 1708 the shell of what was then the residence was finally completed. Shortly before the interior was finished, however, her husband died in the Great Northern War in 1708. Financing from the over-indebted house of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg was made possible by the wife of the builder Carl Ludwig von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, Countess Anna Sabina von Nostitz, a lady-in-waiting of the Electress Anna Sophie of Denmark and Norway , the mother of Augustus the Strong . The construction contract was carried out with their savings.

On November 15, 1717, Anna Sabina von Nostitz finally sold the entire former Moser estate, including the new castle, for 16,500 guilders with a deposit of 1,500 guilders to the Electoral Palatinate Privy Council , Oberjägermeister and Oberamtmann Karl von Venningen . The reason for this was the death of her husband eight years earlier and her low income in this regard, which she needed to be able to continue her usual high standard of living . After that, the castle sank into insignificance at the rulership level. Shortly afterwards Karl von Venningen died, whereupon his heirs wanted to challenge the purchase of the former Moser'schen estate. After a lawsuit at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Mainz and the subsequent second instance in Wetzlar , it was announced on March 9, 1722 that the sale to Karl von Venningen was legal. In June 1723 Anna Sabina von Nostitz and Karl von Venningens heirs signed a final contract in which the heirs acquired “the estate with old and new buildings, manor, newly built castle, field, fish pond, cellar on the mountain and this year's harvest”. In addition, the heirs had to pay 4,250 guilders for all expenses, damage and interest incurred since the original sale in 1717. Anna Sabina von Nostitz died on July 23, 1729 in Mannheim .

In 1787 Count Wilhelm Carl zu Leiningen-Guntersblum brought the castle back under the rule of the Leiningen people. Under his leadership, the castle was extensively renovated and expanded. From then on it served as an inn for members of the count's family, before more and more local Guntersblumers stayed in the castle.

The Leininger Castle in Guntersblum on a postcard from 1917

In 1833 the Guntersblum parish bought the Leiningen castle for 4,000 guilders from the Baden privy councilor and chamberlain Freiherr von Berlichingen , who was the son-in-law of Count Wilhelm Carl zu Leiningen-Guntersblum. The community established a mayor's office here . Even then, the building was a little too big for the community. It was only when the administrative workload increased that the many rooms in the castle finally met the needs of the municipal administration. On December 31, 1834, the building was officially inaugurated as the new town hall . From 1845 to 1965, Leiningen Castle also housed a Catholic rectory . There was also a school with a teacher's apartment and a dance hall in this building. In 1961 and 1972 the castle was repaired and from 1989 to 1990 the building was rebuilt. The square between the Leiningen Castle and the neighboring Catholic Church of St. Viktor was redesigned in 1991.

architecture

The Leiningen Castle has a slightly cantilevered mansard hipped roof . The plastered building, which has a profiled sandstone structure with ears , has its main entrance from the square between the Leiningen Castle and the Catholic Church of St. Viktor. The main entrance is in the middle of the facade to the Catholic Church of St. Viktor. At first only one flight of stairs to the main entrance was built, later a second flight of sandstone was added. There is a blown gable above this portal . The doors have a rusticated frame and pilasters with Ionic capitals . The two door leaves come from classicism . There are carvings and original fittings on the door leaves, dating from around 1790. Guntersblum's municipal coat of arms, which dates from 1964, is located above the main entrance.

Entrance to an event cellar is located under the main entrance . This portal to the cellar is arched in shape and has a small, flat-gable roof that dates from late classicism. It was built around 1830/1840. This basement portal can be reached through two open stairs with sandstone parapets. The interior of the basement has a large room with a two- bay cross vault . On its sides there are two long rooms with barrel vaults. The year 1775 can be seen above a passage. The roof construction dates from around 1787/1788.

In the entrance hall there is an internal wall in which there is a window with a shoulder arch . It dates from 1797.

location

The castle is located in the center of Guntersblum. A few hundred meters to the north-west is the Protestant church, and only a few hundred meters to the north is the second Guntersblum Palace, today's Schmitt Estate . The old Guntersblum Town Hall was also located directly opposite the New Palace before it was demolished in the course of the move to the Leiningen Palace in 1834.

investment

When the castle was built, there was a large castle square in front of it . However, as the first Guntersblum kindergarten and the Catholic Church of St. Viktor were built for the Catholic community over the years, the Schlossplatz became smaller and smaller. Today there is a fountain and a parking lot on the Schlossplatz . After the First World War , a castle road was built that leads in the direction of the Guntersblumer Kellerweg . The Alsheimer Street , one of the main streets Gunter Blum is at the height of the Leininger palace as a traffic-free area established.

Todays use

Since 1835, the castle with the address 29 Alsheimer Strasse has been used as the town hall of the local community of Guntersblum. In addition, from 1972 to 2014, additional administrative work was carried out by the Guntersblum community in the castle. An administrative office of the Rhein-Selz community has been located there since 2014 . In the basement there is a spacious event cellar .

See also

literature

  • Karin Holl: Guntersblum's history (s) - past and present of a village in Rhine-Hesse - volume 1 . Druck & Verlag Stefan Kehl, Hamm am Rhein October 1997, p. 184 ff .
  • Karin Holl: Guntersblum, from the Liningian village to the residence . Dieter Schölles GmbH, Heßheim 2008, p. 147 ff .
  • Dieter Krienke (edit.): Mainz-Bingen district. Verbandsgemeinden Bodenheim, Guntersblum and Nieder-Olm (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 18.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2011, ISBN 978-3-88462-310-7 , p. 185 f .

Web links

Commons : Leininger Schloss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Mainz-Bingen district. Mainz 2020, p. 40 (PDF; 7.9 MB; Altes Schloss, Alsheimer Straße 29).
  2. ↑ Karin Holl: Guntersblum history (s) - past and present of a Rheinhessischen village - volume 1 . Druck & Verlag Stefan Kehl, Hamm am Rhein October 1997, p. 184 .
  3. ↑ Karin Holl: Guntersblum history (s) - past and present of a Rheinhessischen village - volume 1 . Druck & Verlag Stefan Kehl, Hamm am Rhein October 1997, p. 186 .
  4. ^ Dieter Krienke (arrangement): District of Mainz-Bingen. Verbandsgemeinden Bodenheim, Guntersblum and Nieder-Olm (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 18.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2011, ISBN 978-3-88462-310-7 , p. 185 .
  5. ↑ a b Karin Holl: Guntersblum - From the Liningian village to the residence. 2008, accessed November 14, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Karin Holl: Guntersblumer history (s) - past and present of a Rheinhessischen village - volume 1 . Druck & Verlag Stefan Kehl, Hamm am Rhein October 1997, p. 189 .
  7. ↑ Karin Holl: Guntersblum history (s) - past and present of a Rheinhessischen village - volume 1 . Druck & Verlag Stefan Kehl, Hamm am Rhein October 1997, p. 190 .
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Dieter Krienke (arrangement): District of Mainz-Bingen. Verbandsgemeinden Bodenheim, Guntersblum and Nieder-Olm (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 18.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2011, ISBN 978-3-88462-310-7 , p. 186 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 43.4 "  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 43.7"  E