Dippach Castle
The Dippacher Castle is a monument in the district of Dippach of the city of Werra-Suhl-Tal in the Wartburg district in Thuringia and is located on Schlossplatz in the eastern part of the village, near the church.
The Dippach Castle was built as a four-wing courtyard in Franconian-Thuringian half-timbered construction. Today's four-storey main building with the slated stair tower extension protruding into the courtyard forms the remainder of the entire complex, which was gradually demolished and last damaged in a fire in 1927. The castle has been used as a community administration since the GDR era and also as a school, day-care center and after-school care center. The entire complex was originally secured by a protective wall, the castle covered the main entrance to the village. The outbuildings, barns and stables were given the functions required for running the estate; the village church is located a short distance from the castle and still shows an epithaph stone from the time of the Boyneburg patronage family. In the courtyard there is a family crest of the Vultejus family as a decorative detail of the facade .
history
The history of the castle is closely linked to that of the place: In 1226 Dippach belonged to the knights of Heisenbach, later to the lords of Linsingen. During the Peasants' War , the neighboring monasteries of Frauensee and Kreuzberg were stormed by the rebellious farmers of the Werra Valley. As a result, the Werrahaufen also gave the local nobility the choice of joining them or being expropriated. Only cities like Hersfeld or Eisenach were able to cope with the superiority during this time. After the defeat at Frankenhausen , the Hessian Landgrave Philip I also held court over the places in the Gerstungen and Vacha area. High penalties were issued and the lower land nobility had to “pay” for their participation in the peasant war. Some of the impoverished aristocratic families lost their property. As the rich stock of neat half-timbered houses in the historical location shows, a better time dawned in the late 16th century, in this phase the current castle building was also built on a massive basement made of local red-clay sandstone. Between 1660 and 1715 it was bought by a branch of the von Boyneburg family , from which the von Vultejus family bought it before 1723. The place initially belonged to the Hausbreitenbach office for centuries , then to the Friedewald office of the Electorate of Hesse . It was not until 1816 that Dippach came to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach .
As a temporary measure, rooms in the palace were used for the school in 1914. A major fire in 1927 destroyed the outbuildings of the castle estate. This was converted into a school from 1930 to 1933. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the daycare center has also been housed in one part of the building. The last renovation work on the castle began in 2009.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b According to the monument designation of May 5, 1994
- ↑ a b N.N .: Dippach Castle . In: Thüringische Landeszeitung, local page Eisenach from August 30th .
- ^ Geography of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Part 2, edited by C. Kronfeld, Weimar, 1879, p. 59
- ^ NN: Source "Dietenbach" was named after. Visiting Dippach . In: Eisenacher Tagespost, local page Eisenach from July 11, 1991 . July 11, 1991.
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 10.8 ″ N , 10 ° 2 ′ 45.7 ″ E