Ballmertshofen Castle

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North-east side with an octagonal tower
West side of the castle

Ballmertshofen Castle stands on a flat slope terrace in Ballmertshofen , a district of Dischingen , in the Heidenheim district .

history

A castle was mentioned in the same place as early as 1236 , when this and the manor was given away by Count Hartmann IV von Dillingen to the Neresheim monastery . The present castle is likely to have been built in the middle of the 16th century under the castle owner Phillipp von Leonrod or his son Georg Wilhelm. Later castle owners were the noble families of St. Vincent zu Ballmertshofen and Thurn und Taxis . Under the Thurn and Taxis, the castle was the seat of the princely chief hunter and then the princely rent office . In 1865 the municipality of Ballmertshofen acquired the building and set up the school and town hall in it. For a short time in 1940 the castle was used as a prisoner of war camp and after the war as an accommodation for displaced persons . In 1959 the village school was housed until the early 1970s. From 1986 to 1994 the heavily neglected castle was renovated and refurbished. Today it houses u. a. a rural picture gallery.

Building description

The three-story building has curved gables and an octagonal corner tower at the northeast corner. The southeast corner tower was demolished. The gable and windows are decorated with sgraffito painting , a type of wall painting used on Renaissance buildings in Northern Italy:

“The entrance portal with a square, elliptical lintel arch, above which there are two round windows, is axially arranged ... Behind the portal, a centrally positioned entrance hall separates the ground floor into three zones. The hall ceiling is stuccoed, the remaining rooms have barrel vaults. In the first room of the right zone, the barrel ceiling is covered with colored mesh ribs. The 1st and 2nd floors correspond to the structure of the ground floor. They have changed significantly due to ongoing changes in use, only the preheating rooms, the brick floor and the stuccoed ceiling on the second floor are still original. "

- Günter Schmitt

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 6 - Ostalb: Hiking and discovering between Ulm, Aalen and Donauwörth. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1995, ISBN 3-924489-74-2 , pp. 57-62.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Ballmertshofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Schmitt: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 6 - Ostalb: Hiking and discovering between Ulm, Aalen and Donauwörth , p. 60 ff.

Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 13.7 ″  N , 10 ° 22 ′ 21 ″  E