Ehner-Fahrnau Castle

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Ehner-Fahrnau Castle before the Roggenbach renovations

Ehner-Fahrnau Castle (also Ehnerfahrnau , earliest form enre Varnow ; Fahrnauer Hof) is a small castle with a former farm in Schopfheim in the district of Lörrach , which was the residence of Franz von Roggenbach from 1840 to 1907 .

history

The Marienhof

The area of ​​Ehner-Fahrnau (= Fahrnau on the other side ) belonged to the district of Schopfheim from time immemorial - verifiably since 1394. In the 11th century the Marienhof was built here as a Meierhof of the Fahrnau lordship. The Meierhof came to the monastery of St. Blasien from the noble family who were not known by name and who belonged to this rule at the time . The monastery can still be verified as the owner in 1185. Thereafter, the Meierhof and the rights associated with it with regard to the parish of Fahrnau passed through the Lords of Rotenberg to the Lords of Rötteln . The Margraves of Hachberg-Sausenberg and Baden-Durlach inherited the Röttler. After the Reformation of 1556, the parishes of Schopfheim and Fahrnau were merged and the Meierhof transferred its income to Schopfheim to finance the parish.

Johann B. Pauli, the former Obervogt von Schopfheim, became Oberamtmann of the Rötteln rule in 1655. Margrave Friedrich VI. 1666 sold him the Meierhof Ennet Farnaw , where he also largely exempted him from taxes and duties.

Todays use

In 1939 the estate was sold and then used as a gardening shop. Around 2000 a 9-hole golf course was built on the site .

The castle was sold to Josef Müller in 1941, who used a spring there for the production of soda . The castle is still privately owned and cannot be visited.

The little castle

Ownership

The new owner, Johann B. Pauli, wanted to show his social advancement to the outside world and built a castle on the property, the house of which had a simple saddle roof . In the 17th century, the building was expanded to include a half-timbered floor and a polygonal stair tower . The tower is laterally offset on the front of the building.

Next to the base of the tower, an inscribed sandstone slab from 1405 was found, which is considered the oldest stone inscription on the Schopfheim district. However, the stone is attributed to a previous building, although it is unclear whether it was the church, the Meierhof or the rectory, which was built in 1405. The little castle remained in the possession of the Pauli family until 1741 and was then sold by Johann Christian Pauli to the related Grether family from Tegernau .

Ehner-Fahrnau Castle (2015)

In 1840, Colonel Heinrich Adam von Roggenbach bought the former Meierhof and the small castle and sold the family house in the town of Schopfheim, which had been wealthy in Schopfheim since 1396. Roggenbach probably took the coat of arms from 1622 that is now attached to the stair tower in Ehner-Fahrnau with him from the town house. The panel shows an alliance coat of arms with the coat of arms of Johann Hartmann von Roggenbach († April 12, 1636) and Maria Susanna zu Rhein and is dated from 1622.

Heinrich von Roggenbach had the castle expanded; the residential building and the tower were increased. His son, Franz von Roggenbach (who was Foreign Minister of the Grand Duchy of Baden from 1861 to 1865 ) commissioned the extension of a library and a dining room with a kitchen in 1892. In addition, a classical portal was built.

Ehner-Fahrnau in political involvement

In connection with the Geffcken affair , Chancellor Otto von Bismarck also had Franz von Roggenbach investigated, as he was in correspondence with Geffcken and was also an opponent of Bismarck's policies. On October 14, 1888, a house search took place in Ehner-Fahrnau Castle, during which some documents were also confiscated. No evidence could be found of a plot against Kaiser Wilhelm II .

literature

  • Klaus Schubring : Ehner Fahrnau. A historical overview. In: City of Schopfheim. Yearbook '99, - 15. 1999. - pp. 26-27
  • Klaus Schubring: A town and its surroundings. In: Schopfheim. Nature - History - Nature, Schopfheim 2000, pp. 121–154, here: pp. 144–145
  • Bernhard Bischoff : Contributions to the history of architecture in Schopfheim. In: Schopfheim. Nature - History - Nature, Schopfheim 2000, pp. 363–398, here: pp. 384–386
  • Karl Seith : Contributions to the history of the city of Schopfheim. Schopfheim n.d., p. 172
  • Karl Seith: On the history of Ehnerfahrnau. In: Feldbergs Töchterlein, 1955, No. 16-19 (not viewed)
  • Franz Xaver Kraus : The Art Monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 5: District of Lörrach , Tübingen and Leipzig 1901, p. 181 ( online )

Web links

Commons : Schloss Ehner-Fahrnau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Recently, advertisements for the golf course have spoken of the Ehner-Fahrnau estate on the one hand and the historic Roggenbach Castle on the other, but this does not correspond to the longstanding local usage. The castle and the estate belonged together until 1939 and the term Roggenbach Castle was never used in history. There is also no connection with Roggenbach Castle in the Waldshut district
  2. ^ Klaus Schubring : Ehner Fahrnau. A historical overview. In: City of Schopfheim. Yearbook '99, - 15. 1999. - p. 26
  3. ^ Klaus Schubring : A town and its surroundings. In: Schopfheim. Nature - History - Nature, Schopfheim 2000, pp. 144–145
  4. ↑ s. Homepage of the Golfanlage Schopfheim GbR [1]
  5. ↑ there was a Müller Sprudel GmbH
  6. ↑ s. Bischoff p. 385/386 (with photography); for the text of the inscription s. also Kraus p. 181
  7. ↑ s. Klaus Schubring : Ehner Fahrnau. A historical overview. In: City of Schopfheim. Yearbook '99, - 15. 1999. - pp. 26-27
  8. ↑ since the mid-30s commander of the Grand Ducal Baden Dragoon Regiment of Freystedt No. 2; Retired in 1844 with appointment as major general; s. Max Freiherr von Roggenbach: Chronicle of the baron family von Roggenbach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1888, p. 100 online at the Bavarian State Library
  9. ↑ s. Bischoff p. 385/386 (with photography)
  10. ↑ the founder of the younger Schopfheim line ; Max Freiherr von Roggenbach: Chronicle of the baron family von Roggenbach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1888, p. 64 online at the Bavarian State Library

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 56 "  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 51"  E