Ehningen Castle

The Ehninger Castle in the front view.

Castle Ehningen , including Upper castle or width heavy Tsches Castle called, is originally a moated castle built between the 16th and 20th centuries to lock repurposed facility in Ehningen in Böblingen in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was built around 1300 as a mansion for the local nobility. The castle was then surrounded by a moat . Access was via a drawbridge on the northern front. The castle was protected by an approx. 7 meter high curtain wall with a rampart inside . A keep ( residential tower ) in the northeast corner of the courtyard served as the residential building .

In 1515 the forester Martin Klemm von Ringelstein from Nagold bought the castle and had it expanded, but to an unknown extent. As early as 1564, the facility was bought by the Württemberg secret chamber secretary Franz Kurtz, whose coat of arms from 1567 can be found on the residential building today. His widow sold it in 1580 to Duke Ludwig von Württemberg , Eberhard III. enfeoffed Felix Wilhelm von Breitschwert with it in 1639. In 1754 the palace was renovated by Georg Heinrich Heidegger, and in 1796 Johann Ludwig Christian von Breitschwert carried out a thorough renovation. In this u. a. the house and several farm buildings in the courtyard were renovated and renewed and the moat filled in. After the death of the last Freiherr von Breitschwert on July 15, 1910, General Siegfried von La Chevallerie became Fideikommissowner on Ehningen. Before moving in, he had the palace renovated by Elisabeth von Knobelsdorff and the palace gardens enlarged. In 1927, several farm buildings were badly damaged in a fire on the south wing, but they were rebuilt by the architect Felix Krüger except for the building in the south-west corner, mostly in a half-timbered style.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ehningen Castle on zeitreise-bb.de . Accessed February 25, 2014.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Julius Fekete : Art and cultural monuments in the district of Böblingen. Theiss, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-1969-9 , p. 113.
↑ Dagmar Zimdars [edit.]: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Baden-Württemberg I. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 159.

48.6571 8.9442Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '25.6 " N , 8 ° 56' 39.1" O ß

[URL-1] Ehningen Castle on zeitreise-bb.de . Accessed February 25, 2014.

[Fekete-2] Julius Fekete : Art and cultural monuments in the district of Böblingen. Theiss, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-1969-9 , p. 113.

[Dehio-3] Dagmar Zimdars [edit.]: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Baden-Württemberg I. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 159.