Town Hall (Aries)

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Town hall in Aries

The town hall in Widdern in the Heilbronn district goes back to a former castle of the Lords of Zyllnhardt . The castle was built in the early 18th century, but was probably only temporarily inhabited by members of the von Zyllnhardt family, who died out in the male line in 1828. Originally a Würzburg fiefdom, later a Baden fiefdom, the castle came to Württemberg in 1846 through an exchange of territory and then became private property. The cellar remained from the castle, which was partially demolished in the 19th century. The current building was erected around 1870 on the foundations of the castle as a restaurant and acquired by the city in 1880, which has since used it as the town hall.

history

Zyllnhardtsche Castle

The Lords of Zyllnhardt had, beginning with Hans von Zyllnhardt, who was enfeoffed with a quarter of the town by Bishop Rudolf von Würzburg and who owned another sixteenth as an allodial property , from 1483 heirs in Aries. It is not known whether the Zyllnhardt had a manor in the area as early as the 15th century , but it is unlikely.

The palace on the site of today's town hall was built in the early 18th century on the site of three old courtyards. The building is built into the sloping bank slope of the Kessach , so that only little excavation had to be made for the vaulted cellars and one could create ground-level access to the cellars from the Kessachufer. The large cellars were particularly necessary to hold the wine tithing. There are no reliable documents about the shape of the palace. A traditional plan sketch shows a five-axis two-storey baroque building with two mansard floors and a pavilion building a little further away from the castle, which was used either for representative occasions or as a granary. It is not known whether the design was actually built that way. In any case, old traditions testify to a stately baroque building with wall paintings inside, a large courtyard stretched in front of the castle, which was built close to the bank of the Kessach.

Friedrich Dietrich von Zyllnhardt (1654–1713), who was wealthy enough for a representative new building as a councilor and treasurer of the knightly canton of Odenwald , died in Widdern in 1713 and was buried in the church, is considered a possible builder and first lord of the castle . His widow Sophia continued to live in the castle until her death in 1739. It is uncertain whether members of the Zyllnhardt will ever live in the castle for longer. Perhaps it served as the apartment of a Zyllnhardt bailiff, or perhaps it was empty for a long time. The male line of the family died out with Karl von Zyllnhardt (1779–1828), who lived in Mauer and had little relation to Aries. After his death, the Baden Grand Duke Ludwig moved into the Zyllnhardt fiefdom in Widdern and gave it to Baron Wilhelm Ludwig von Berstett , who lived mainly in Mannheim and Karlsruhe and did not take care of the Widdern property. After his death in 1837 the fiefdom reverted to Baden. With a state treaty of 1846, the Zyllnhardt's fiefdom came to Württemberg through an exchange of territory. The castle property was then sold to private individuals from the Württemberg property.

Decay and partial demolition

The property came into the possession of the landlord Diefenbach, who set up the restaurant Zum Schloss in it. He has probably already taken over the property in a ramshackle state and was soon unable to finance the necessary repairs, as the property came to the farmer Moll from Möckmühl in the 1860s, who demolished the upper floors of the main building and sold usable parts as building material. The ruins then served as a barn, the cellars and the neighboring pavilion building remained intact.

Reconstruction around 1870

Around 1870 the landlord and butcher Christian Bauer took over the property. He erected the building in its current form on the old foundations, with two floors and a two-story roof structure with a dwelling . Bauer had the building ready for use as an inn again. The exact year of construction is unknown, due to similarities with the former carpenter's workshop Burckhardt, built in 1873 on the corner of Burggasse, it is assumed that the year of construction is almost the same. The new castle inn did not exist for a long time, as the council of the city of Widdern decided to purchase the building in 1880. The city then had the building converted into a town hall by the Neckarsulm official builder Lell in 1881/82 and the previous town hall converted into a school building.

The pavilion building near the castle was initially used as a town hall barn and was given a new roof in 1883. Around 1888 the upper floor of the pavilion was converted into a municipal doctor's apartment with a practice. After 1911, various municipal employees lived in the castle apartment , from 1930 to 1934 the then mayor Wilhelm Gayer.

literature

  • Reinhold Sting: The Zyllnhardt'sche Castle. In: Heimatgeschichtlicher Verein Widdern (Hrsg.): Widdern once and now. Widdern 2011, pp. 150–158.

Web links

Commons : City Hall  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Reinhold Sting: Das Zyllnhardt'sche Schloss , p. 150.
  2. ↑ a b c Reinhold Sting: Das Zyllnhardt'sche Schloss , p. 151.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Reinhold Sting: Das Zyllnhardt'sche Schloss , p. 154.
  4. ↑ a b c Reinhold Sting: Das Zyllnhardt'sche Schloss , p. 152.
  5. ↑ Reinhold Sting: Das Zyllnhardt'sche Schloss , p. 153.
  6. ↑ a b Reinhold Sting: Das Zyllnhardt'sche Schloss , p. 155.
  7. ↑ Reinhold Sting: Das Zyllnhardt'sche Schloss , p. 156/157. In the letters from Johann Christian Heckmann, which are often referred to about the city's history, however, 1875 is erroneously mentioned as the year of the town hall move. The wrong year 1875 has found its way into numerous publications.
  8. ↑ a b c Reinhold Sting: Das Zyllnhardt'sche Schloss , p. 157.

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 5.7 ″  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 15.8 ″  E