Rappenhof (Weinsberg)
The Rappenhof is a historic estate on the outskirts of the city of Weinsberg in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg .
geography
The Rappenhof is just under two kilometers southeast of the center of Weinsberg, surrounded by vineyards, on the right slope of the Stadtseebach on the flat northern foot of the Löwensteiner Mountains . The estate extends over the Gauch (s) berg and Rappenweide corridors .
history
Early settlement and use
In 1710 the Gauchsberg is mentioned as a branch of Weinsberg with 16 inhabitants; It is not known whether there was an earlier settlement. In the 15th century there is evidence of viticulture, and in the early 18th century a new vineyard was laid out on the Gauchsberg, while the adjacent black pasture lay fallow for a long time. Around 1780 the Gauchsberg was desolate.
Founding of the Rappenhof in 1782
In 1782 the former hospital tenant Kolb owned both corridors and founded an estate on the hilltop. The Weinsberg council promoted the construction with the delivery of oak sleepers from the city forest and named the estate Rappenhof after the Rappenweide . In 1795, the Presteneck bailiff Friedrich Anns acquired the estate and was granted citizenship in Weinsberg, but was forced to sell again 20 years later for economic reasons.
Christian colony 1815/16
In 1815, a Balthasar Wepfer from Diessenhofen in the canton of Schaffhausen appeared as a new buyer, but he turned out to be the front man of the Geneva pastor Frédéric Fontaine, who in turn acted on behalf of Juliane von Krüdener . Fontaine and Krüdener had previously founded a "Christian colony" that conjured up the apocalypse on the Katharinenplaisir estate near Brackenheim and had been expelled from Württemberg in 1809 because of their activities. The purchase of the Rappenhof, at which Fontaine again began to preach the Apocalypse and from which Krüdener made contact with the Russian Tsar Alexander I , therefore remained controversial. Finally Fontaine was arrested and expelled again in 1816, whereupon the 107-acre estate fell to the city of Weinsberg. The ownership structure in the following years is poorly known.
Property of the Princes of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein 1858–1876
In 1858 a community of owners sold the farm to the princes of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein , who unsuccessfully sought to merge the farm with the Lehren estate they had recently acquired . The first Hohenlohe tenant, Friedrich Conrad Seefeld from Löchgau , violated the lease agreement and had to leave the farm in 1867. Under the second Hohenlohe tenant, Karl Friedrich Bürkle from Schmieden near Cannstatt, the farm burned down completely on May 20, 1876. The princes of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein then sold the 152-acre estate to the traders Jonas Strauss from Öhringen and Moses Maier from Lehrensteinsfeld, who wanted to parcel out the land and sell it on individually, which failed due to the resistance of the Weinsberg city council.
Around 1900, Seufferheld, the father of the artist Heinrich Seufferheld , owned the farm. The buildings that had burned down had still not been restored in 1904.
Restaurant business since 1951
The Wurster family from Böckingen finally acquired the entire estate from 1927 to 1929 through changing ownership, on which there was now a residential house and various farm buildings. The courtyard, which survived the Second World War undamaged, was significantly expanded structurally in 1946/47. In 1951 an inn was opened, which has since been rebuilt many times and expanded to include a hotel, and continues to be run by the Wurster descendants. A memorial room commemorates the writer Juliane von Krüdener .
literature
- Simon M. Haag: On the building history of the upper administrative town of Weinsberg . Verlag Nachrichtenblatt der Stadt Weinsberg, Weinsberg 1995, ISBN 3-9802689-8-5 , pp. 221-225.
- Fritz-Peter Ostertag, Robert G. Koch: Castle and town of Weinsberg. Sources and evidence of their history in the Middle Ages. Documentation of an exhibition in the Staufer year 1977. Stadt Weinsberg, Weinsberg 1977, p. 18.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 22 ″ N , 9 ° 18 ′ 7 ″ E