Schlösschen (Handschuhsheim)

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The little castle in Handschuhsheim

The Schlösschen (also Handschuhsheimer Schlösschen ) goes back to a smaller late medieval aristocratic seat in Handschuhsheim . The listed building has been rebuilt many times and has a varied history of ownership. The oldest component is the striking stair tower from the early 17th century. The building has been owned by the city of Heidelberg since the First World War and is now used for cultural purposes. The new building on the site of the former orangery of the castle was named after the painter Carl Rottmann , who was born in Handschuhsheim and whose grandfather once owned the property.

location

The new building on the site of the orangery with the Carl Rottmann Hall
North-east corner of the castle with a smaller stair tower

The castle is located in the center of the most populous Heidelberg district of Handschuhsheim, south of the Handschuhsheimer Tiefburg on the other side of today's Dossenheimer Landstrasse . To the south of the ensemble of castles and ancillary buildings is the castle park, which is now named Grahampark after the former castle owner John Benjamin Graham .

description

The little castle is an elongated, two-storey building with a mansard roof . The most striking component is the stair tower from 1606, which is built onto the center of the west facade. At the northeast corner of the building is another smaller stair tower. To the north, towards Dossenheimer Landstrasse, a standing bay protrudes from the facade. The stair tower is a typical style feature from the Renaissance period , the rest of the building, which was built in its current form around 1700, speaks the baroque design language with the mansard roof and its window landscape .

Located to the west of the palace is the L-shaped new building with the Carl Rottmann Hall , which, with the large arched windows of the transverse building, takes up elements of the former orangery located at this point and with its two-storey main building refers to the shape of the palace.

The Grahampark , which extends south of the building, was created with native and exotic plants by the businessman Carl Adolph Uhde, who lived in the castle between 1836 and his death in 1856. Little has been preserved of Uhde's planting, especially since the park has been changed many times since then. The current appearance of the park with over 1000 plant species goes back to a redesign by the Heidelberg City Landscape Office in 1987.

history

The property next to the Tiefburg was first mentioned as Knebelhof in the 15th century . The Knebel family belonged to the regional lower nobility. Heinrich V. von Handschuhsheim (1405–1431) was married to Margarete Knebel. Barbara von Handschuhsheim († 1588) married Dam Knebel († 1579), who owned the farm. From this the court came to Philipp Knebel, who was married to Elisabeth von Helmstatt . Their son Dam Philipp Knebel († 1613) had the manor house renewed in 1609. The stair tower of this new building has been preserved up to our time. From Dam Philipp Knebel the court came to his brother-in-law Pleickard XIV. Landschad von Steinach and from him by inheritance to his sister Agnes. After the male line of Landschad von Steinach died out , the court came to Pleikard's XIV daughter Ursula Christina, who was married to Philipp Ernst von Venningen. The Lords of Venningen sold the property to Friedrich von Landas in 1659. In 1674 the farm was destroyed. In 1677 the estate came to Landas' son-in-law, a Herr von Lenthe, who repaired the manor house. In the Palatinate War of Succession , the mansion was destroyed again, and the tower stood up again. Around 1700 the house was restored in its present form. In 1701, Colonel Johann Friedrich Strup von Gelnhausen acquired the property and had the manor house expanded to include an orangery . By inheritance, the property came to the Counts of Waxenstein, who sold it to the government councilor Josef Benedikt von Jungwirth in 1725. His descendants sold the estate to the administrative councilor Johann Ludwig Harscher, who sold it to his cousin Nikolaus Hummel. Stephan Gugenmus (1740–1778) was the tenant of the property from 1769 to 1778 . He reformed the agriculture in Handschuhsheim by abolishing the three-field economy and made Handschuhsheim an important vegetable growing location. In 1783 the orphanage attendant Carl Franz Josef Rottmann bought the property. His grandson Carl Rottmann (1797–1850) was an important painter. In 1837 Carl Adolf Uhde (1792–1856) acquired the property. As a collector of antiques and natural objects, he used the building to accommodate his collections and also had the park built around the castle. In 1861 the mine owner John Benjamin Graham (1813–1876) bought the property. He bequeathed it to his son, the parliamentarian Harry Robert Graham († 1933), who lived mostly in England. The city of Heidelberg tried to acquire the palace even before the First World War , but the outbreak of war brought negotiations to a standstill. As the English owned property was threatened with confiscation, the Graham's administrator Jakob Pollich acquired the property during the war. In 1916 he conducted renewed purchase negotiations with the city of Heidelberg, which were finally successful three years later. The city used the building as a youth hostel from 1921 until the end of 1956 . In 1928 some of the outbuildings were renewed, after which the castle was converted into a special school. Since a comprehensive renovation in 1974/75, the castle has served as a music school , in 1984/85 the orangery building was demolished and the modern Carl-Rottmann-Saal was added.

literature

  • Maximilian Huffschmid : The little castle in Handschuhsheim and its owners , in: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter 14 (1913), No. 7 u. 8, col. 149-157; 14 (1913), No. 9, col. 174-180 and 14 (1913), No. 10, col. 200-206.
  • Hans Heiberger : Handschuhsheim. Chronicle of a Heidelberg District , Heidelberg 1985, pp. 87–89.
  • Eberhard Schöll : Rich history of the Handschuhsheimer Schlösschen , in: Yearbook of the Handschuhsheim district association 2009 , pp. 5–9.
  • Ingrid Bühler : The Grahampark and its trees , in: Yearbook of the District Association Handschuhsheim 2006 , pp. 33–37.

Web links

Commons : Schlösschen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle Handschuhsheim

Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 39.1 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 10.3 ″  E