Propstei Wechterswinkel
The former Propstei Wechterswinkel is the representative administrative building of the Wechterswinkel Monastery , built in 1793 by Provost Carl Theodor von Dalberg (later Archbishop of Mainz and Imperial Chancellor * 1744 † 1817) . The provost's office is located in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in the Bastheim district of Wechterswinkel on Klosterstrasse.
The property is entered in the Bavarian Monument List as an individual monument according to Art. 1 DSchG with the following text:
"Former Propstei, symmetrical three-winged courtyard with mansard roof, 1793; Broad, two-storey main building with a mansard hipped roof, pilasters and heraldic stones above the main entrance; southern wing construction; northern wing building, on an angled floor plan, single storey with hipped roof; Courtyard gate with gate; Courtyard wall with side gate. "
History of construction and use
After the dissolution of the Cistercian monastery in the 16th century, the rich monastery property continued to be administered from the provost's office. The head provost entrusted with the administration, mostly elected from the circle of the Würzburg cathedral chapter , was represented by a local provost . At least one Baroque predecessor building can be found in the place of the current building (around 1700).
The new building from 1793, which is modern in the sense of the Enlightenment, was only used as an administrative building for around 10 years until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and secularization .
In 1813/14 the spacious rooms were used as a military hospital by the ducal Würzburg military hospital. Of the wounded from the Napoleonic Wars , around 100 patients, most of whom died of typhus , were buried in the Wechterswinkler cemetery.
In the 19th century, the provost's yard was mostly used for agriculture.
In 1914 the property was acquired by the linguist Ernst Lewy (1881–1966). The professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin for Finno-Ugric language wrote some of his works in the provost's office. In 1933 the Jewish intellectual couple Levy had to emigrate, and the provost's office was run by a daughter of the family as the “Recreation Home Schloss Wechterswinkel”. In 1939 the entire property was "aryanized" by the community and leased to the Reich Labor Service (RAD). From 1939 to 1945, up to 120 girls and women lived in this “RAD home for female youth” to carry out work assignments in the surrounding villages. After the end of the war, the provost's office was briefly occupied by the US Army, after which it was used as refugee accommodation for displaced persons from the Sudetenland and Silesia .
Since 1950, after the property was returned to the Lewy family, the provost's office has been sold several times and is now privately owned.
Web links
literature
- Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Ed.): District-free cities and districts in Bavaria. Ensembles - architectural monuments - archaeological monuments . In: Monuments in Bavaria. Vol. I, 1-VII, 96, Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-87490-586-2
- Sulzbach calendar , calendar for Catholic Christians to the year 1870th - 30th year.
- Bruno Hauck: Wechterswinkel then and now ; Bastheim, Gemeinde, 1989. 621 pp.
Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 13.6 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 12 ″ E