Ehrstädt Castle
The Castle Ehrstädt in Ehrstädt , a suburb of Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis ( Baden-Wuerttemberg ), was in 1769 by Christoph Ferdinand III. Friedrich von Degenfeld erected.
history
The castle in the south-west of the village was built on the site of an older castle that had been abandoned, as there is documentary evidence of this, but no structural traces. The new construction of the castle took place a few years after Christoph Ferdinand I von Degenfeld (1699–1766) was able to unite the previously fragmented property of Degenfeld-Neuhaus. In the 1760s there were numerous negotiations between the impoverished community and the autocratic local rule, which after Christoph Ferdinand I's death of his three sons Reinhard Philipp Friedrich (1722–1784), Christoph Eberhardt Friedrich (1737–1792) and Christoph Ferdinand III. Friedrich (1739–1812) was no less arrogant. After there was even an uprising among the impoverished citizens in 1768, the rebels had to pay high fines, most of which went into the construction of the palace in 1769. Before 1793, a major fire is said to have occurred at the castle. The castle remained in the possession of the von Degenfeld-Neuhaus family until they became extinct in the male line in 1921. After that it came into the possession of the Barons Thumb von Neuburg through inheritance .
description
The castle is an almost unadorned two-winged, three-story baroque building with a gable roof . In the corner formed by the two wings to the inner courtyard there is a flight of stairs to the portal, in which the initials of the builder ("CFvD") and the year 1769 are carved.
The castle is surrounded by a walled castle park and numerous farm buildings in the style of a Franconian courtyard. There was once a small lake in the castle park, which was later filled in.
literature
- Adolf von Oechelhäuser and Franz Xaver Kraus [eds.]: The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden (Volume 8.1): The art monuments of the districts of Sinsheim, Eppingen and Wiesloch (Heidelberg district) , Tübingen 1909, p. 12. ( online edition )
- Friedrich Hub : Ehrstädt and Neuhaus Castle . Ehrstädt 1967.
- Hartmut Riehl : Castles and palaces in the Kraichgau . Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-51-7 , p. 10.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 34.2 " N , 8 ° 58 ′ 43.8" E