Mauren (Ehningen)
Mauren is a hamlet belonging to Ehningen in the Boeblingen district in Baden-Württemberg , which mainly consists of a farm, the ruins of the old castle, a pilgrimage church and the "Grüner Baum" inn, which has been closed since 2013. The estate has only belonged to the municipality of Ehningen since 1851, before that it was an independent fiefdom under different masters . The name is said to refer to Roman ruins (Latin muri = walls).
Ownership
When it was first mentioned, Mauren was a Gothic moated castle that lay across the Würm on the other side of today's hamlet. This castle and the associated lands were subordinate to the Bebenhausen monastery .
Ownership: 14th century: Lords of Herteneck (1320–52) and Lords of Bondorf (from 1352)
In 1395 the castle was razed. At the time, the castle was a bulwark of the Schleglerbund (a Swabian knight association), which conspired against the rule at that time.
The castle was rebuilt and has been under the feudal lordship of Württemberg since then . In 1459 the estate went to the Lords of Dachenhausen. On December 16, 1616, the estate was sold by Eberhart Wolf von Tachenhausen for the price of 30,000 guilders to Johann Friedrich Schertel von Burtenbach and the estate has been under the knightly canton of Neckar-Black Forest ever since .
After this sale, the old castle was demolished and Heinrich Schickhardt was commissioned to build a new castle. From Schickardt's notes on the assignment:
“Moors. On October 3rd, 1617, Junker Friedrich Schertlein excited me that I should demolish a completely new castle, which no longer stood in the valley, but rather on the mountain in front of it, which will happen soon was built afterwards. "
The castle was a rectangular, three-storey building with turrets at the corners and an extensive garden that was supplied with spring water through a system of pipes.
Different possessions: In 1782 the castle was owned by Baron von Hopfer. This declared the property to 'Fideis commis' ( Family Fideikommiss ) whereby the property became inalienable and only the income was due to the respective master. In 1788 the estate was inherited by the Baron von Röder. In 1813 the estate was sold to the Baron von Koenig. After that it came into the possession of Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Freiherr von Koenig, who had already acquired the dissolved parish including the church in 1809. In 1826 the church tower of the pilgrimage church received a new bell house in a new steeple. The estate was then owned and managed by Adelheid Schott von Schottenstein (a half-sister of General Max of the same name from Württemberg ) and her husband Franz Ferdinand von Dusch, as well as their son Alexander von Dusch and his wife Pauline. After the air raid in 1943, in which the castle went up in flames by an incendiary bomb, most of the castle building was demolished due to the risk of collapse. In 1954 the estate was sold to farmer Albert Juzeler and is now owned by the Wissensner family. The castle is owned by the Krohmer family.
Marien and Pelagius Church
The church was first mentioned in 1320 as a chapel . According to a document from 1337, it was a branch of the church of Altdorf and belonged together with it to the Bebenhausen monastery . A pilgrimage was associated with the church until the Reformation . The miraculous image, dated around 1360, is now in the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart. From the Romanesque previous building from the 11th / 12th centuries. In the 19th century, only small remains have been preserved, which were integrated into the current building. The current nave dates from around 1470, while the choir and tower are believed to date from the 14th century. For a long time the church served as the parish church of the Moors of the castle. It is noteworthy that the church tower clock has only one hand. Structural decline began after the middle of the 16th century. Since 1827 a wall has separated the choir, which has served as a church since then, from the nave. The latter has since been used as storage. From an art-historical point of view, the remains of the formerly rich interior painting, an ivory altar cross from the 17th century and two high-quality tombs are worth highlighting.
Personalities
- Harley Krohmer (* 1970), researcher and entrepreneur
- Else von Löwis (1880–1961), landlady of the Mauren estate
- Thomas von Löwis of Menar (* 1947), German touring car driver and team boss in auto racing
literature
- Evangelisches Kreisbildungswerk and Katholisches Bildungswerk Kreis Böblingen (ed.), Churches in the district of Böblingen, Munich 1990, p. 15f.
- Schach, A., The former pilgrimage and parish church in Mauren, 1974
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Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 4.4 " N , 8 ° 58 ′ 42" E