Meckenheimer Castle

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The castle from the street side

The former Meckenheimer Schloss is located at Junkergasse 1 in Lambsheim . The building, whose predecessors date back to the 15th century, was a mansion for a long time until it came into the possession of the municipality and has served various other purposes since then.

history

A knight's seat has been occupied at this point since around 1400. A building erected around 1500 was destroyed by Philipp von Hessen in 1504 , then rebuilt by Heinrich von Meckenheim († 1531). Its coat of arms can still be found today with that of his wife Ulrike von Helmstatt († 1510) in the grooved corner of the street front; both were buried in the then (later reformed) village church of Lambsheim. Subsequently damaged several times, the property was rebuilt after the Thirty Years War in the middle of the 17th century.

In 1690 the Meckenheim family died out, in 1702 the building changed hands and came to the Palatinate General Johann Wilhelm von Efferen († 1724), who also owned the Lambsheim hunting lodge . In 1725 Ludwig Anton von Haacke bought the property. He had the castle modernized and rebuilt in 1740. The initials VH can be found in the iron anchors in the wall facing the courtyard and together with the family's coat of arms in the weather vane . At the end of the 18th century, the former estate manager Philipp Jeremias Koob bought the Meckenheimer Castle at auction, but bequeathed it to the Lambsheim community in 1823. Since then it has been used as an administration building, and until 1966 it also served as a school building. The ground floor is currently used as a kindergarten and the cellar for festivities. The Lambsheim tower painter's studio is set up in the castle tower, and his post is filled every year.

architecture

The castle from the courtyard

The Meckenheimer Schloss has a hook-shaped floor plan, which probably originates from the previous buildings of the 15th century. From this early stage of the building history, however, only the extensive cellar system has survived, the ridge vault of which is supported by free-standing pillars. The new building, which was built after the Thirty Years' War, basically corresponds to the building that can still be seen today: It is a two-story plastered building with hipped roofs and evenly arranged rows of windows. It is to be assumed that some architectural elements go back to the previous building; however, this cannot be proven with certainty. When the castle was modernized in 1740, the octagonal roof tower was built in the late Baroque style, which is provided with a dormer .

The main entrance to the building is richly profiled and provided with ears . In the west, on the side facing away from the courtyard, there are remains of a stone staircase inside. On the street to the west of the actual castle, an outbuilding was added in the 18th century, which also has a vaulted cellar. On the opposite side of the castle courtyard, a nursing home for small children was built in 1858. This is also a plastered one and a half story building, which is divided by stone houses and provided with a saddle roof, but was heavily restored in later times. The entire courtyard area is surrounded by a wall.

Weather vane of the tower with coat of arms and monogram of the Barons von Hacke

Castle garden

The garden of Meckenheimer's castle was west of Lambsheim outside the city fortifications. He could be reached through the property at Hauptstraße 47, which was built in the third quarter of the 18th century by the Koob family, who a few decades later would also acquire the castle themselves. The park was located in the area between today's Stadtgrabenstrasse and the Ringstrasse.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Geib: Lambsheim . In: The travel manual through all parts of the Royal. Bavarian Palatinate in local and historical relationships . G. Ritter, Zweibrücken 1841, pp. 156–160, here p. 159.
  2. ↑ Erich Graf von Kielmansegg: Letters from Duke Ernst August zu Braunschweig-Lüedburg to Johann Franz Diedrich von Wendt from the years 1703 to 1726 . 1902, p. 229 ( digital scan for General von Efferen [accessed September 16, 2015]).
  3. ↑ Lambsheimer Schlosskeller ( Memento from May 10, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) on the Verbandsgemeinde Lambsheim-Heßheim

Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 47.8 "  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 17.6"  E