New Castle (Leonberg)

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Leonberg Castle

The listed New Castle (Leonberg) is located in the Leonberg district of Maxhütte-Haidhof (Schlossplatz 1 and 3).

history

After the old one-story building burned down at this point, Heinrich Graf von der Mühle-Eckart built the neo-baroque palace with a mezzanine floor and a rich facade structure in 1885-90 . The executing construction company was the well-known company Heilmann from Munich (today Heilmann & Littmann ), which is said to have used designs by Leo von Klenze . The palace gardens were also laid out at that time.

During the revolution in 1919, a workers' council was also established in Leonberg . At the beginning of 1919 he took over the municipal administration and made several demands on the Count von der Mühle-Eckart (land, cheap wood, apartments, increase in starvation wages). Since he did not keep his promise, the castle was stormed and looted. After a few weeks, however, the council government came to an end and its leaders were tried.

The American General George S. Patton , Commander in Chief of the 3rd Army , took quarters in Leonberg Castle for several weeks from April 23, 1945. At that time, a lot of the interior fittings are said to have disappeared from the castle.

New Leonberg Castle today

View to the castle garden
Attached farm wing (Schlossplatz 3)

Apart from modernizations in the interior, the castle has remained more or less unchanged since the time it was built. It is a three-story building with a richly structured facade. In the aerial photo you can see a three-wing system.

The east facade facing the local church of St. Leonhard is delimited by a small garden with high brick columns and an iron grille. The carved entrance door and the bulging balcony with iron grating emphasize the central axis of the seven-axis building. The main entrance leads into a barrel-vaulted and stuccoed anteroom with decorated glass doors. This is followed by the centrally located staircase with a gallery. The family coat of arms is shown in a round scrollwork cartouche in the stucco of the stairwell . The living and representation rooms are also partly equipped with stucco ceilings. On the west wing of the castle there is a roof turret with a viewing platform.

The neo-baroque garden was transformed into a park. The palace park is not open to the public. A farm building adjoining the castle building belongs to the castle; this mansard roof building bears the year 1877.

The castle is still the seat of the Counts Von der Mühle-Eckart and Maximilian Freiherr von Wiedersperg and is not open to the public.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Leonberg (Leonberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Biersack: Ortschronik, Hofmark and Parish Leonberg . Festschrift "700 Years Parish Leonberg".

Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 55.3 "  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 53.2"  E