Deufringen Castle

Deufringen Castle

Castle Deufringen , also known as Castle Validlingen or Validling'sches Schloss, is located in the district of Deufringen in the municipality of Aidlingen in the district of Böblingen in Baden-Württemberg . The castle is owned by the community and is a community center used.

history

As early as the 14th century, a previous building is suspected to have taken the place of the castle. The current palace was built in 1592 by Heinrich Schickhardt under the Schorndorf Obervogt Jakob von Validlingen . The noble family of the Validlingers held the fief from 1402 to 1699. The castle was the family seat until 1699. In that year Johann Conrad von Validlingen gave the fief to the House of Württemberg . It passed it on to Privy Councilor von Schütz, who returned it in 1726. Already in 1746 it was converted into a pastorate . The building was used by the Protestant community until 1976 and was owned by the state of Baden-Württemberg. The municipality bought the castle in 1977 to house the town hall there. Since the already existing listed town hall could not be demolished, it was decided to set up a community center. The vaulted cellar is used for jazz concerts.

Castle spirit

The alleged castle ghost goes back to a murder . On the night of October 9th to October 10th, 1600, Jakob von Validlingen stabbed his friend Konrad von Degenfeld . Jakob thought the sleepwalking Konrad, supposedly wrapped in a bed sheet, was a ghost. On October 15, 1600, Jakob was executed by order of Duke Friedrich I.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.adv-boeblingen.de/zrbb/aidl/deufr/schloss.html - accessed on November 17, 2009
2. ↑ http://www.stuttgart-tourist.de/a-schloss-deufringen - accessed on December 22, 2014

Web links

• Information from the district media center of the Böblingen district on Deufringen Castle

Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 50.3 "  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 6.7"  E