Leininger Unterhof
| Leininger Unterhof | |
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 Historical view, around 1800 |
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| place | Grünstadt |
| Architectural style | Late baroque |
| Construction year | Mid 18th century |
The Leininger Unterhof is a baroque palace building in the city of Grünstadt , Rhineland-Palatinate , which today serves partly as a retirement and nursing home and partly for private living purposes.
History of the castle
During the War of the Palatinate Succession , Grünstadt was looted by the French in 1689 and partially burned down. In 1690 they burned or blew up Altleiningen Castle and devastated the entire County of Leiningen. As the family castle Altleiningen was uninhabitable, the ruling Count Philipp Ludwig von Leiningen-Westerburg-Rixingen had the old Lungenfeld monastery courtyard converted into a residence from 1698 in Grünstadt . This monastery courtyard with the associated lands and rights was revocably pledged to the Leininger in 1549 by the Lungenfeld monastery (Glandern).
When Count Philipp Ludwig died in the Battle of Cassano in 1705 , his only son, his brothers and close male relatives were already dead. With him, the lineage of Leiningen-Westerburg-Rixingen and Leiningen-Westerburg-Leiningen became extinct in the male line. His inheritance came in equal parts to distant relatives, the brothers Christoph Christian (1656–1728) and Georg II. Carl Ludwig (1666–1726) from the Leiningen-Westerburg-Schaumburg family line. Both brothers jointly took over the Palatinate County of Leiningen and exercised the rule every year alternately. Both donated their own family lines, Christoph Christian the Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen line and Georg II. Carl Ludwig Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen. The brothers resided in Grünstadt because of the destruction of the Altleiningen and Neuleiningen castles . While Christoph Christian moved into Unterhof Palace, which had already been built by his predecessor, Count Philipp Ludwig, and bought it as a pledge holder from Glandern Monastery in 1735, Georg II. Carl Ludwig built a new palace nearby, the Oberhof, from 1716 . Both castles served the counts as residences until the end of their rule as a result of the French Revolution and its effects. On February 24, 1793, the Unterhof was occupied and looted by the French.
Johann Nepomuk van Recum (1753–1801), brother of Andreas van Recum , bought the Frankenthal porcelain factory in 1795 in order to continue running it as an earthenware factory in Grünstadt from 1801 . Unterhof Castle served as his company and residence. His successors bought the property cheaply from the French state in 1805. There were conversions and new buildings. The owners changed several times as a result. At the end of the 20th century, the stoneware factory moved out of the building complex. The west wing and the south connecting wing between the east and west wings were demolished in 1974 and rebuilt in a modified form. Only the east wing, which extends from south to north and extends to the street front of Obergasse, remained of the old Unterhof; also to the east of it are two baroque guard houses at the entrance to the former castle park.
Today the castle and its new wings serve as residential units and there is a spatial connection to the "Seniorenresidenz am Leininger Unterhof" to the south, which uses parts of the complex.
Building stock
The front of the castle is on Obergasse. The only original east wing extends north-south. The main building with a mansard roof has three floors with 7 window axes. Adjacent to the north, towards Obergasse, is a younger, classicist, two-story building with 6 window axes.
To the east of it, reaching the Martinskirche , lies the former castle park, now a public green area. On its street front facing Obergasse there are two baroque guard houses or gatehouses with rusticated corner pilasters and a broken hipped roof.
A newly built connecting wing to the newly built west wing connects to the east wing in the south. In the front wall facing Obergasse, a historical coat of arms stone from the demolished castle buildings with the alliance coat of arms of Count Georg Hermann (1679–1751) and his second wife Charlotte Wilhelmine née. von Pappenheim (1708–1792) walled in.
East wing seen from the park
Main walled entrance to the park
Street entrance east wing, park side
East wing from southwest; on the right connection to the senior citizens' residence, on the left part of the new south wing
Sentry box at the castle park
Guard house at the castle park, right behind the Leininger Oberhof
Coat of arms stone
City administration plaque
Street front from the northwest; on the right the new west wing with coat of arms stone, on the left the original east wing
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation: The Art Monuments of Bavaria. Administrative district Pfalz, VIII. City and administrative district Frankenthal, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1939, pp. 266–268
- Hans Heiberger: The Counts of Leiningen-Westerburg. Kiliandruck Dinges, Grünstadt 1983, p. 143 and 144, ISBN 3-924386-00-5
Web links
- Entry on Unterhof Grünstadt in the private database "Alle Burgen".
Individual evidence
- ^ Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter, Volume 38, University of Bonn, 1974, p. 282; (Detail scan)
- ^ Johann Georg Lehmann : Historical paintings from the Rhine district of Bavaria , Volume 1, p. 162, Heidelberg, 1832; (Digital scan)
- ^ Johann Georg Lehmann : Historical paintings from the Rhine district of Bavaria , Volume 1, p. 170, Heidelberg, 1832; (Digital scan)
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '44.1 " N , 8 ° 9' 50.3" E