Ettenheim Castle
Ettenheim Castle was the last residence of the last Prince Bishop of Strasbourg Louis René Edouard von Rohan-Guémené . It is therefore also known as the Palais Rohan ('last castle'). Today it serves the city administration of Ettenheim .
history
The city of Ettenheim has belonged to the secular property of the Principality of Strasbourg since the 11th century . In 1560, Bishop Erasmus Schenk von Limpurg built the building as an official building in the Renaissance style . The three-storey building with a high, three-storey saddle roof was built on a much older basement foundation. Due to the hillside location, the basement can be seen from the courtyard. The only architectural decorations are the gable pinnacles , a stone frieze under the gable and the stone coat of arms above the entrance, to which a double flight of stairs leads. The keystone on the eastern gable top of theThe bay window facing the market square shows the coat of arms of the builder, Bishop Erasmus, and the year 1560.
In the 18th century, Ettenheim was expanded as a secondary residence next to Strasbourg and Saverne in the Baroque style. In 1790, Cardinal Louis von Rohan had to flee his possessions on the left bank of the Rhine. He first moved to the Ettenheimmünster monastery until the office building was redesigned as the prince-bishop's residence. In 1791 Ettenheim became the official residence of the prince-bishop and the cathedral chapter . However, they repeatedly had to flee from the revolutionary troops. The cardinal was not able to return for good until 1801, where he died in 1803. His estate was auctioned. Only one tapestry by his uncle Armand Gaston von Rohan-Soubise has survived and is shown in the conference room on the upper floor. There is also a Torah curtain ( parochet ) from the former synagogue in Ettenheim . The remaining tapestries later adorned Mannheim Palace , where some of them can be shown again.
Behind the office building was the Vogt's house . Later the winter school was built here, which was used as a high school for citizens and as an agricultural school. Today there are sheltered apartments for the elderly here, and the vaulted cellar is used by a local cultural initiative.
literature
- Kurt Klein: Castles, palaces and ruins - witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , p. 16.
- Silvia Huth, Manfred Frust: Castles on the Upper Rhine. History and stories . 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag , Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-87407-793-4 , p. 110 ff.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 13 ″ N , 7 ° 48 ′ 41.1 ″ E