Scharnhausen pleasure palace

The pleasure palace Scharnhausen

The pleasure palace Scharnhausen is a pleasure palace in Scharnhausen , a district of Ostfildern in the district of Esslingen . It was built in 1784 by Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg for his lover and future wife Franziska von Hohenheim .

description

The palace complex consists of the actual palace and an extensive park in which the so-called Amortempel is located. The castle is a two-storey building in the early classical style with a hipped roof and a portico in front , which is supported on four Ionic columns. The portico has a triangular gable on which the inscription "Carolus Otio" is carved. There is an oval lawn in front of the castle. Behind the castle is the Amortempel, a square temple reminiscent of a Monopteros , which consists of twelve Ionic columns, three per corner.

Amortempel

history

The castle was built in 1784 by Reinhard Ferdinand Heinrich Fischer on behalf of Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg due to its proximity to Hohenheim Castle as a pleasure palace, which served him as a retreat from government business. Originally there were two pavilions to the left and right of the castle, the western one, the so-called playhouse , being used as a dining room and the eastern one, the so-called bathhouse , being used as a bath. In 1788 an English landscape garden was laid out with artificial hills, an oval lake in front of the castle and the still-preserved Amort temple. In 1810 King Wilhelm I set up a foal farm, which is considered the forerunner of the stud in Weil . For this purpose, the lake in front of the castle was filled up and replaced by a racecourse. After the end of the Kingdom of Württemberg , the castle remained in the possession of the House of Württemberg, which leased part of the park to the Hohenheim Agricultural University . In 1933 a large part of the castle park had to be given to the air force for the construction of the Nellingen air base. After the war, the castle was initially used as accommodation for expellees , after which the house was used privately, mostly as a residential building or veterinary practice.

Individual evidence

↑ Dagmar Zimdars [edit.]: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Baden-Württemberg I. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich, 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 645.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Article on the Scharnhausen pleasure palace in the Eßlinger Zeitung from December 1, 2008 . Accessed June 24, 2014.
^ Description of the Oberamt Stuttgart, Office. Published by the Royal Topographical Bureau, Müller, Stuttgart, 1851, p. 249.
↑ Hans-Peter Braun [ed.]: The Esslingen district. Second, completely revised version, Theiss, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8062-1005-5 , p. 241.
^ Herrmann Vietzen: Scharnhausen. From seven hundred years of local history. Wegra, Stuttgart, 1976, p. 67.
^ Vietzen: Scharnhausen. From seven hundred years of local history. P. 84.

48.710547 9.260153Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 38 " N , 9 ° 15 ′ 36.6" E

[1] Dagmar Zimdars [edit.]: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Baden-Württemberg I. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich, 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 645.

[ESZ-2] Article on the Scharnhausen pleasure palace in the Eßlinger Zeitung from December 1, 2008 . Accessed June 24, 2014.

[3] Description of the Oberamt Stuttgart, Office. Published by the Royal Topographical Bureau, Müller, Stuttgart, 1851, p. 249.

[4] Hans-Peter Braun [ed.]: The Esslingen district. Second, completely revised version, Theiss, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8062-1005-5 , p. 241.

[5] Herrmann Vietzen: Scharnhausen. From seven hundred years of local history. Wegra, Stuttgart, 1976, p. 67.

[6] Vietzen: Scharnhausen. From seven hundred years of local history. P. 84.