Buhl Castle
Castle Buhl in Tubingen district Buhl is a Renaissance building from the 1554th
The castle was built by David vom Stain on the western outskirts of Bühl. In 1628 his son, Leopold Carl vom Stain, sold his property in Bühl including the castle to Austria. Emperor Leopold I left it to the Jesuit College in Rottenburg in return for a loan of 10,000 guilders . The order set up a brewery in the castle, which operated until 1924. After the Jesuit order was dissolved in 1773, the castle was also used as an inn, but it often changed hands. In 1807, a “tangible dance justice” was registered for the brewery castle, which still exists today. After 1924 a sawmill and a chimney construction company started production on the property. It was auctioned in 1980 by lawyers from Tübingen, who renovated it and furnished condominiums in it.
The castle still consists of a three-story stone house with a high pitched roof. The southern narrow side consists of half-timbering . On the field side, two round towers, which do not protrude over the roof of the main house, give the castle a defensive character. The vertical is emphasized by a continuous narrow stone frieze between the floors. The spiral staircase in the octagonal staircase tower was already considered particularly remarkable in the 16th century. At the southwest corner there is a half-timbered bay. The stone lion masks on the north end wall are a remarkable detail. They were probably originally at a gatehouse. They are the model for the wooden masks of the Bühler fools guild.
The outlines of the farmyard on the north and east sides of the castle with elongated barns and stables can also be seen. All in all, the result is a quite stately complex, which is in many ways comparable to the nearby castle in Hirrlingen .
literature
- Franz Quarthal (Ed.): Between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb. The land on the upper Neckar . Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1984, ISBN 3-7995-4034-2 (publication by the Alemannic Institute Freiburg; 52).
- Wolfgang Sannwald: History trains . between Schönbuch, Gäu and Alb; the district of Tübingen . 4th edition. Verlag des Schwäbisches Tagblattes, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-926969-25-3 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 58 " N , 8 ° 59 ′ 43" E