Dätzingen Castle

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Dätzingen Castle
Interior view (hallway)

Dätzingen Castle is located in the middle of the Dätzingen district of the Grafenau municipality in the Boeblingen district in Baden-Württemberg . The neo-classical palace is owned by the municipality and houses, among other things, the local history museum .

history

The Order of St. John acquired the village of Dätzingen in the 13th century. As early as 1263, a brother house was mentioned in a document in place of today's castle. Suspected, but not certain, is a water castle as the medieval predecessor building . The first palace buildings were built in 1607. At that time, the place came into the possession of the Order of Malta . The castle was expanded to today's four-wing complex in 1733. In the 18th century, the commander's residence was in the castle. After the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss the place was awarded to the Kingdom of Württemberg . Count Carl Ludwig von Dillen came into possession of the palace in 1810 as a gift from King Friedrich I. Changes made by the court architect Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret , in particular the portico from 1810 to 1812, resulted in today's appearance. The building came into the possession of the Grafenau community in 1961. Today the castle houses a gallery, an auction house and an antiquarian bookshop in addition to the local history museum.

investment

The castle is designed as a four-wing, two-and-a-half-storey complex with an inner courtyard. The external design is essentially classical. Inside, the early Classicist Maltese Hall, built in 1780, should be emphasized with its battle pictures and pictures of the branches of the Order of Malta.

The castle was renovated from 2009 to 2011 both outside and inside.

Panoramic wallpaper Les Chasses de Compiègne

After Carl Ludwig von Dillen received the castle as a gift from Friedrich I in 1810, the king organized a three-week hunt in the woods around Dätzingen a few months later, in which more than 4,000 people were involved. During the hunt, the king resided in the castle. To commemorate the event, von Dillen ordered the panoramic wallpaper Les Chasses de Compiègne (“The Hunts of Compiègne ”) designed by Carle Vernet in 1812 from the Parisian manufactory Jacquemart & Bénard . The wallpaper shows in four episodes the hunt of a noble society in the woods of Compiègne. It is considered to be the manufactory's first panorama wallpaper and the earliest of all hunting wallpapers. Individual sheets of paper were assembled into a total of 25 strips, each 55 centimeters wide and around 250 centimeters long, and printed with wooden models, with one model for each printing color. Four of the panorama wallpaper have been preserved, the Dätzinger as the only one in Germany, and the only one complete. When Adrienne von Bülow, a descendant of Dillens, sold the castle to the community in 1961, the Sindelfingen Local History Museum bought furniture and paintings as well as the wallpaper, which had been removed in pieces. The furniture and paintings returned in 1998 and are on display in the local museum. The municipality of Grafenau paid 25,000 marks for the panorama wallpaper. Seven strips of wallpaper were restored and found a place in the anteroom of the Malteseraal. 18 webs damaged by improper removal were stored in rolls. In 2019 they were handed over to the Stuttgart restorer Thomas Wieck, who preserved them, restored them and put the tracks back together again. In 2020, the wallpaper attached to mobile wooden frames will be shown in the castle.

literature

  • Herbert Blum / Ewald Bien: 50 years of Dätzingen Castle in community ownership. Festschrift , Grafenau municipality 2011.
  • Thomas Freller: Between Dätzingen, Malta and St. Petersburg. Johann Baptist von Flachslanden, diplomat, galley admiral, pründen hunter . In: Journal for Württemberg State History, vol. 75 (2016), pp. 155–170. pdf
  • Margot Weber: The last Komtur , Weber, Grafenau 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive German Foundation for Monument Protection - accessed on November 16, 2009 ( Memento from January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Matthias Weigert: Monument Foundation supports restoration of the 200-year-old panorama wallpaper in Dätzinger Castle . Böblinger messenger. June 25, 2019, accessed February 2, 2020.
  3. ^ A b Christiane Rossner: Hunting scenes in the royal bedroom. In: Monuments, Volume 30, No. 1, February 2020, pp. 30–31.

Web links

Commons : Dätzingen Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 42 '59 "  N , 8 ° 53' 8.2"  E