New Castle (Gaildorf)
The New Castle , since 1967 the town hall of Gaildorf am Kocher , was opened in 1846 by Countess Amalie von Waldeck-Limpurg (1785-1852), the widow of Count Georg Friedrich (1785-1826) von Waldeck-Pyrmont and Limpurg-Gaildorf built on the north side of the stove in a spacious park as a pavilion .
After the rule of Waldeck-Limpurg came into the possession of the House of Bentinck in 1868 due to the marriage of Mechthild Karoline Emma von Waldeck-Bergheim (1826–1899) with Count Karl Anton Ferdinand von Bentinck , the so-called Villa Waldeck was twice (1880 and 1896) to serve the Counts of Bentinck and Waldeck-Limpurg until 1918 as the so-called Counts Bentinck Castle as a summer residence.
During the Second World War, the castle was used by the SS to store cultural property and from 1943 to 1945 as an officers' mess. In 1945/46 it was an American officers' mess and then until 1965 a retirement home .
In 1967 the New Palace became the town hall of the town of Gaildorf.
Castle Park
On the castle park area between Kocher and New Castle, east of the castle, in the area of today's park school, was the entrance to an alum and vitriol mine operated from 1763 to 1899 . In 1832 the skull of a Mastodonsaurus giganteus , a carnivorous amphibian, was discovered; Of this species, which became extinct over 200 million years ago, there are only two significant sites in the world, Gaildorf and Kupferzell .
Today there is a school center with the park school (elementary and secondary school), the Schloss Realschule and the Schenk-von-Limpurg-Gymnasium on the park grounds.
Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 12 ″ N , 9 ° 46 ′ 21 ″ E
Web links
- Gaildorf ( Graeflich Bentincksches Schloss, Neues Schloss) at burgeninventar.de
- The New Castle on the website of the city of Gaildorf
literature
- Hans König: The new castle. Once a villa - then a castle - today the town hall. A report on the history of the new castle. Self-published, Gaildorf 1996