Birkenau Castle

Birkenau Castle

Birkenau Castle is a late baroque castle in the town of Birkenau of the same name in the Weschnitz valley near Weinheim . It is a very simply structured, but nevertheless impressive two-storey building with an attached castle park.

With the construction of the baron was 1765 on behalf Wambolt of Umstadt by the Speyer Hofbaumeister Johann Leonhard steel started in the immediate vicinity of a previous building, and 1779 (n. A. A. already in 1771 or 1772) the lock was finally through the kurpfälzischen Hofbaumeister Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti completed . Renovations took place in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The castle garden, originally (from 1767) designed according to the French model, was converted into a landscape garden based on the English model from 1787 according to plans by Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell . With the construction of the connecting road from Weinheim to Fürth , the later B 38 , in 1847 (n.a.a. between 1840 and 1843), the original palace park was cut into two parts.

Traces of the previous building resp. the previous buildings (probably a moated castle and / or a moated castle) are no longer visible.

The castle is privately owned by the Wamboldt von Umstadt family. It has been marketed as a venue for weddings, seminars, presentations and parties since 2010.

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites. 3rd edition. Wartberg-Verlag. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000. ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 562.
• Castles and palaces in the Rhine-Neckar triangle. Everything you need to know about 126 castle complexes in North Baden, South Hesse and the Upper Palatinate. Ed .: Jochen Pressler. Schimper, Schwetzingen, 1996, ISBN 3-87742-097-4
• Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 53f.

Web links

Homepage Birkenau Castle

Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 44 "  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 19.5"  E