Upper Castle (Alfdorf)

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Upper castle, today town hall

The Upper Castle in Alfdorf in the Rems-Murr district is a castle built at the beginning of the 17th century .

history

The castle was built in 1602 by Philipp von Neuhausen and his brother-in-law Joachim Berchthold von Roth, whose coats of arms can be recognized as reliefs at today's main entrance on the east side of the building. The castle was built as a rectangular, three-story stone house with a gable roof and two four-story towers at both corners of the east side. A central projection was added on the west side , which now serves as a staircase. A walled park still belonged to the castle grounds at that time. As early as 1614, Philipp von Neuhausen's share in the castle was bought by Duke Johann Friedrich von Württemberg . From 1618 to 1630 Hans Caspar Diemar from Lindach was enfeoffed with the castle. 1639 was then Georg Friedrich vom Holtz by Duke Eberhard III. enfeoffed with the castle for war expenditure. In 1775 a plastered timber-framed brewery was built west of the castle, which belonged to the castle until around 1864. Around 1845 the castle was renovated and in 1871 it was owned by Götz von Holtz and his wife Sophie von Gemmingen , as you can see at the west entrance. The town hall of the municipality of Alfdorf has been located in the castle since 1986.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Mayer: Cultural monuments and museums in the Rems-Murr district. Theiss, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0571-X , p. 29.
  2. ^ A b Adolf Schahl: The art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Volume 1, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 1983, ISBN 3-422-00560-9 , p. 106.
  3. ↑ a b c Web presence of the municipality of Alfdorf: History of Alfdorf . Accessed June 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ Website of the community of Alfdorf: The Holtz family . Accessed June 18, 2017.
  5. ^ Schahl: The art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Volume 1, p. 107.
  6. ^ Description of the Oberamt Welzheim. Published by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau, Cotta / Stuttgart / Tübingen 1854, p. 142.

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 39.5 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 16.7"  E