Buttlar Castle
The Buttlar Castle is a former moated castle and a cultural monument in Buttlar in Wartburgkreis in West Thuringia . It is the former ancestral seat of the noble family Buttlar as well as their offshoots Treusch von Buttlar , Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels and Butler.
history
The current castle can be traced back to 1170 as a castle, some of the castle's foundations date from that time. Around 1170 the knights of Butiler acquired fiefdoms in the vicinity of the castle, which they owned until 1285. In 1456 Johannes von Buttlar bought back the castle, which was named as a palace from the 16th century. From around 1620 to the 1720s it belonged to the von Kötschau family .
Johann Anton Franz von Buttlar , brother of the Fulda abbot and imperial prince Konstantin von Buttlar , acquired the family estate in 1726. He filled the moat of the moated castle and designed the palace park in its place. In 1813 Napoleon stayed in the castle, but had to flee it in a hurry, and his troops set the castle on fire. After the death of Heinrich von Buttlar without descendants, the castle fell to the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach .
Ludwig von Buttlar -Elberberg, district administrator of the Wolfhagen district in Hessen-Nassau , bought it back into the family property in 1898. After his death, his sons Georg (until 1937) and Edgar (until 1945) live in the castle. After the end of the Second World War , Buttlar was in the Soviet occupation zone . The Soviet military administration in Germany expropriated the castle.
In the GDR , the castle was used, among other things, as an administration building and youth club and fell into disrepair. It has been privately owned again since 1999 and was extensively restored until 2005.
Web links
- Ruprecht von Buttlar: Chronicle of the Buttlar castle
- Buttlar Castle on alleburgen.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 9 ° 57 ′ 4.2 ″ E