Residenzschloss Kupferzell

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Kupferzell Castle, east view

The Residenzschloss Kupferzell is a three-wing palace complex from the 18th century in Kupferzell in the Hohenlohe district . Originally it belonged to a branch line of the Princes of Hohenlohe . Today there is a school in the castle.

history

Since 1553, Kupferzell had been in the possession of the Counts of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg, who designated Kupferzell as their official residence that year. This remained in the possession of the line even after an inheritance was divided in 1615. After the Hohenlohe-Waldenburg family died out in 1679, Kupferzell came to the branch of the Counts of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst. Kupferzell continued to use them as an official residence before Count Philipp Ernst von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst built a castle from 1721 to 1729, making Kupferzell his residence. In 1806 Kupferzell became part of the Kingdom of Württemberg as part of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , but the castle, which had been vacant for some time, remained in the possession of the Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst. The castle became the family residence again in the same year and remained so until 1886. In 1922 the Württemberg Chamber of Agriculture bought the vacant castle and converted it into a school for agriculture and housekeeping, which is still there today.

description

The castle consists of a three-storey rectangular building with a mansard roof , which is the main building of the complex and is located in the southern corner of the southeast wing. Together with a long two-storey farm wing, this forms a courtyard open to the south-west. On the portal of the main building there is an alliance coat of arms of the Princes Hohenlohe and Öttingen-Wallerstein , on the north side of the farm wing there is a coat of arms of Prince Karl Albrecht III. von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst and his first wife Elisabeth Auguste von Isenburg-Birstein . The castle is surrounded on three sides by a garden that was laid out as a French Baroque garden at the time of construction and was converted into the English Garden in 1862 .

Web links

Commons : Residenzschloss Kupferzell  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History of the community of Kupferzell . Accessed January 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X , p. 436.
  3. ↑ a b Entry on Kupferzell Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  4. ↑ Jürgen Hermann Rauser (Ed.): Kupferzeller Heimatbuch. From the local history of the old communities of Kupferzell, Eschental, Fessbach, Goggenbach, Mangoldsall, Westernach (= Hohenlohekreis local library . Vol. 17, ZDB -ID 2295393-0 ). Kupferzell Municipality, Kupferzell 1985, p. 30.
  5. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (ed.): The Hohenlohekreis. Volume 2. B: The municipalities. Historical basics and the present (continued). Künzelsau to Zweiflingen. Thorbecke, Ostfildern, 2007, ISBN 3-7995-1367-1 , p. 63.
  6. ↑ Dagmar Zimdars include: Baden-Württemberg I. The administrative districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe (= Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments. ). Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 444.

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 38.3 "  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 34.1"  E