Bellingen Castle

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Bellingen Castle from the east (today the town hall of Bad Bellingen)

Bellingen Castle is a mansion built in 1590 by the Barons von Andlau in Bad Bellingen ( Lörrach district ), which is now used as the town hall by the Bad Bellingen community.

history

Coat of arms of those von Andlau from Siebmacher's coat of arms book

The Habsburgs had important possessions in Bellingen as early as the 11th century and were able to gain sovereignty here after the Zähringers died out (1218). The Habsburgs enfeoffed the Lords of Butenheim with the rule of Butenheim, which consisted of Bellingen, Butenheim, Homburg and Kleinlandau . In 1337 the Austrian bailiff pledged the rulership to Friedrich vom Haus. His son Hans Ulrich vom Haus became a lender in 1365 and a feudal lord in 1401. It is believed that this Hans Ulrich surrounded Bellingen with a moat and wall at the end of the 14th century. With his cousin Hartung vom Haus, this sex died out in the male line. Hartung's son-in-law, Walter von Andlau, received the rule of Butenheim - and thus Bellingen - as a fiefdom from Catherine of Burgundy in 1418 . The Lords of Andlau retained this fief in 1473/74 during the Burgundian pledge rule. In 1805 the rulership of the state passed from the Habsburgs to the House of Baden , while the Andlau kept their possessions in Bellingen until 1937.

It is believed that the place where the castle (town hall) stands today was already a previous building in the late Middle Ages, as remains of walls from the 14th century were found, but they could also come from a fortification wall around the place. The Lords of Andlau probably initially administered Bellingen from their Butenheim Castle. The Andlau-Homburg-Bellingen sideline lived temporarily in Bellingen from 1527 and built the castle there in 1590, which was structurally altered several times in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Since 1789 the castle has been continuously inhabited by the von Andlau family.

In 1937 Oktav von Andlau sold the castle to the municipality and moved to Schliengen to the moated Entenstein castle . With him died out on July 19, 1961, the Bellinger line of the Andlau.

description

It is a simple two-storey building with an extended attic, which faces the street on the eaves side and whose ridge runs from south-southwest to north-northeast. The tithe barn and the economic building stood behind the castle facing the Rhine.

In 1981/82 the building was completely renovated by the municipality. The stepped gables were reconstructed, a modern stair tower was added and the building was completely gutted.

literature

  • Erik Beck: Bad Bellingen (LÖ) In: Alfons Zettler, Thomas Zotz (Hrsg.): The castles in the medieval mash gau II. Southern part. Half volume A – K, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-7366-5 , pp. 20-25.
  • Hans-Detlef Müller: The 400-year rule of the Lords of Andlaw in Bellingen from 1418 to 1805. In: Das Markgräflerland, Volume 2/1999, pp. 101–119
  • Heinz Erich Walter: Bellingen. Germany's youngest spa in the past and present. Bellingen 1962
  • Julius Kindler von Knobloch : from the house . In: Kindler von Knobloch. Upper Baden gender book, Heidelberg 1894, Volume 1, p. 553 online
  • Julius Kindler von Knobloch : von Andlau . In: Kindler von Knobloch. Upper Baden gender book, Heidelberg 1894, Volume 1, p. 13 online

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ lost place between Homburg and Kleinlandau; s. also Butenheim in the French wikipedia
  2. ↑ on the gender of the von Haus (or "vom Hus") see Julius Kindler von Knobloch : vom Haus . In: Kindler von Knobloch. Upper Baden gender book, Heidelberg 1894, Volume 1, p. 553 online
  3. ↑ s. Beck p. 18
  4. ↑ s. Müller p. 110
  5. ↑ Eduard Schuster: The castles and palaces of Baden. Gutsch, Karlsruhe 1908, p. 198

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 '53.4 "  N , 7 ° 33' 23"  E