Emmerichshofen Castle

Bay of the Kahler camping lake at the cottage colony

The Castle Emmerichshofen located north of Kahl am Main (Lower Franconia) on the St 2305 after Alzenau , near the B 8 and Hesse and Bavaria border. The castle , built in 1766 , is a typical representative of a noble country estate in the Rococo style .

history

The castle was built in 1766 by Count Anselm Franz von Bentzel-Sternau , Minister of Electoral Mainz , and named after his sponsor, Archbishop of Mainz Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach-Bürresheim . It has been owned by the Barons Waitz von Eschen since the early 19th century .

investment

The two-storey main building has a developed mansard roof with a turret. The two long sides of the building are emphasized by central projections.

The lower outbuildings are covered with simpler saddle roofs with crooked hips. Together with the main building, they form several inner courtyards. The trapezoidal castle courtyard is closed off at the front by an outwardly curved wall with two gatehouses and guard houses.

At the rear of the castle there is a larger garden terrace as part of an English landscape garden . Wall-like tracts on the narrow sides of the main building were probably originally intended as arcades at the end of this park.

Surroundings

The castle is located on a lake landscape surrounded by forest as part of the Kahler Seenplatte . At Weihertannensee , Lindensee and Schloßsee an approx. 30 hectare holiday home area with weekend houses in Scandinavian style was built from 1968 . All houses are long-term leased. Popular activities include swimming, fishing, dinghy paddling, sailing and tennis.

A bay of the Kahler Campingsee also comes close to the holiday home area. Pine and beech forests as well as reed vegetation are left in their natural state, in contrast to the sandy shores intended for bathing.

A Christmas market takes place in the castle courtyard every year.

literature

Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia. Echter, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-429-03516-7 , pp. 88f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia. Würzburg 2012, p. 88.

50.0944 9.0073Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 39.8 ″ N , 9 ° 0 ′ 26.3 ″ E

[schilling-1] Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia. Würzburg 2012, p. 88.