New Castle (Guntersblum)
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The New Castle in Guntersblum , Rhineland-Hesse, is a castle with an important history. Today it is considered a cultural monument .
history
The history of the New Palace in Guntersblum, known today as it is today, goes back to the year 1404. In that year the Mariacron monastery in Oppenheim was mentioned, which at that time owned almost seven acres of arable land and meadows in Guntersblum . In 1451 the abbess of the Mariacron monastery, Miltedrut Schressin (also Schraß ) from Ülversheim (today Uelversheim ) leased 16 acres in the Guntersblum district to local residents. In the meantime, the family member Emmerich Schraß von Ülversheim, from 1464 to 1475 a Landkomtur of the Teutonic Order , owned the land. When he died in 1483, however, his private property, and with it the land on which the New Palace stands today, passed to his nephew Adam von Sötern as an inheritance . The further ownership is unclear.
It was not until the 16th century that the property was sold to a lawyer named Christoph von Otthera. The man from Mühlhausen in Thuringia settled in the neighboring town of Oppenheim, where he died in December 1563. From then on, the estate bore his name for around 150 years. Here, the Court has already led Gunter Blumer 1558 scribe the goods as owner. During this time, the year 1561 was carved into the archway to today's entrance to Schlossgut Schmitt . This indicates a strong construction activity on the then very large site in the Guntersblum town center.
After the death of Christoph von Otthera, his property now went to his son Jacob von Otthera, who was also a lawyer. He died at the end of March 1613 in Butzbach in Hesse as a retired princely Hessian bailiff of the Eppstein rule . After inheriting the property to his descendants, the property was leased to Adam Sachs, Stadian Weisser and Niclas Adam Greuel after the Thirty Years' War . When they died, Greuel's son Caspar ordered the entire estate alone. The location of the property at that time, where the New Castle can be found today, is delimited by the Guntersblum Town Hall in Rathausgasse (today Hauptstrasse ), in the direction of Worms, partly from Rathausnebengasse (today Geißenmarkt ) and various courtyards towards Oppenheim described by dozens of house and courtyard spaces as well as to the Rhine through the village ditch. The only building is said to have been a barn . This was probably based on the consequences of the Thirty Years' War.
At the beginning of the 18th century, in 1707, the court major Renner von Brandt was finally documented as the owner of the property. In the following years he is said to have created a farm with a garden on the property . In the coming years he is said to have got into severe financial difficulties, so that his property in Guntersblum was managed by an administrator until after his death from 1721 to 1737 during an ongoing trial against him. From 1726 a Philipp Schmidt is said to have managed the estate, who in 1737 was still referred to as the “Otterauischer Hofmann”.
In July 1737 then bought gräflich - leiningische Council Gunter Blum, Johann Christian Klotz, of the widowed Anna Metta Renner Brandt, now with Johann Christoph von Kahlden was married, for 5000 guilders , the so-called Otterauische Good with all its attendant buildings (houses , Barns, stables, wine press houses, the house square and garden). After Klotz's death in 1749, Anna Metta von Kahlden lived here at least until 1767. In 1787, when Anna Metta von Kahlden had already died, Count Wilhelm Carl zu Leiningen-Guntersblum finally bought the property for 2,500 guilders and left the property on the property until 1789 build new Guntersblum Castle after the first Guntersblum Castle, the Leininger Castle , was completed in 1708 . After her divorce, Countess Eleonore von Leiningen was the owner of the New Palace. When she died in 1832, she bequeathed her to her daughter Elisabeth Margarethe Auguste, wife of Baron Karl Ludwig von Stockhorn . After her death in 1874, she bequeathed the castle to her daughter Amalie von Budberg , who in turn sold it to Simon Kaufmann from Jugenheim in Rheinhessen in 1876 . This in turn sold it only a short time later to Johann Schätzel and his wife Magdalena Schätzel.
location
The castle is located in the center of Guntersblum. A few hundred meters to the west is the Protestant church, and just a few hundred meters to the south is the first Guntersblum Castle, today's Leininger Castle. The old Guntersblum town hall was located on the opposite side of the street from the castle in today's main street , before it was demolished in the course of the move to the Leiningen castle in 1834.
investment
When the castle was built, there were many gardens and meadows with an agricultural character around the property. From the beginning, the castle was on one of the main streets of Guntersblum. As more and more houses were built north and south of the palace over the years, the palace square became smaller and smaller before it only consisted of a piece east of the palace. Today there is a spacious courtyard on the Schlossplatz, which is mainly used for many wine festivals . A special feature of the castle complex is the Geisenmarkt street , which today leads directly through the former entrance to the castle under the castle to the east. Furthermore, the Guntersblumer Kellerweg and the market square of Guntersblum can be easily reached via Julianenstraße .
Todays use
Since the castle was sold to Simon Kaufmann from Jugenheim in 1876, the castle has been privately owned. Today the castle at Hauptstrasse 45-47 serves as the home of the Schmitt family. The Schmitt family also owns a winery called Schlossgut Schmitt KG . The size of the castle is well used by the high administrative work of today's winery.
See also
literature
- Karin Holl: Guntersblum, from the Liningian village to the residence. Dieter Schölles GmbH, Hessheim 2008, pp. 123-128.
Web links
- Internet presence of the Schmitt estate in the Schmitt estate
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source: Informational directory of cultural monuments Rhineland-Palatinate for the Mainz-Bingen district as a PDF file, p. 22 f.
Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '52.1 " N , 8 ° 20' 45.1" E