Eichtersheim Castle

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Eichtersheim Castle
A stone bridge leads over the moat to the portal of the facility

The Eichtersheim Castle is a moated castle in Eichtersheim , in the municipality of Angelbachtal in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis . The castle was built in the 16th century by the Lords of Venningen and was given its current appearance in the 18th century. The castle, which is surrounded by a closed moat and surrounded by a park of almost seven hectares, has been owned by the municipality since 1963, and since 1980 it has housed the municipality's town hall and a restaurant.

history

After the Lords of Venningen had received the place Eichtersheim as an electoral palatinate hereditary property , they built a mansion there in the second half of the 16th century in a lowland of the Angelbach . The castle, which is surrounded by a moat, has always been an unevenly three-winged complex open to the town. The exact determination of the age of the building by the existing building inscriptions is made more difficult by the fact that the gentlemen from Venningen often reused components of older systems for new constructions or renovations. A heraldic plaque from 1510 or 1570 above the entrance to the left wing can only be used to a limited extent as a reference point for dating. A stone door wall also bears the date 1569. The castle originally had two towers, but has been rebuilt many times, so that only one tower is left today.

The palace got its current shape mainly through a reconstruction under Carl Philipp von Venningen in 1767. Both the baroque two-armed staircase to the main portal and the magnificent baroque staircase inside the palace originate from this reconstruction . A bay window from Neidenstein Castle was temporarily installed in the castle, but was then broken out again and taken back to Neidenstein.

The building was owned by the von Venningen family until 1963 and was then acquired by the Eichtersheim community. In 1964, the community first considered reselling the castle. In 1969 there were plans to set up a residence for foreigners in the castle for a local company. In 1970, thought was given to using the castle as a common town hall for Eichtersheim and Michelfeld. After the municipalities merged in 1972, plans were initially made to build a new town hall between the two districts and again to sell the castle, but from 1974 the castle garden was redesigned. From 1976 there were again fruitless sales negotiations before the municipality decided to convert the castle into a town hall in 1977. After two years of construction, the castle was given its new purpose in 1980. A restaurant was set up on the ground floor of the left side wing, the tower room on the ground floor was converted into a police station, and a caretaker's apartment is on the second floor of the left side wing. The first floor and the remaining rooms on the other floors are used by the municipal administration.

Schlosspark protected area

The Eichtersheimer Schlosspark was laid out in the second half of the 19th century in the style of an English landscape garden by Friedrich Ries from Eichtersheim, who later became the horticultural director in Karlsruhe. The old and rare giant trees are worth seeing, some of which are a botanical specialty. Examples are an old hanging beech (fagus silvatica pendula) or an old ginko tree, an intermediate form between conifers and deciduous trees.

As early as February 20, 1940, the then Sinsheim District Office established a landscape protection area under the name Schloßpark Eichtersheim . The area has a size of around 6.4 hectares and has the protected area number 2.26.015. The old trees were particularly protected.

The castle park is a popular excursion destination and the scene of castle lighting and jousting games every year .

literature

  • Angelbachtal municipal administration (ed.): City Hall Angelbachtal 1980 , Angelbachtal 1980.
  • Hartmut Riehl: Castles and palaces in the Kraichgau . Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-51-7 .
  • Peter Schubart: Two castles threatened with extinction in Angelbachtal, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis. In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , 3rd year 1974, issue 3, pp. 28–31 ( PDF ) [not evaluated]

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 0.7 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 31 ″  E