Ettlingen Castle
The Schloss Ettlingen is a baroque palace in the center of Baden-Württemberg City Ettlingen .
Previous buildings
Today's castle had two, possibly three predecessor structures. After the Baden margrave Hermann V was enfeoffed by Emperor Friedrich II with the town of Ettlingen founded by the Hohenstaufen , his son Margrave Rudolf I of Baden built a castle in the middle of the 13th century - possibly on the remains of a previous Hohenstaufen building; a previous building has not yet been proven. The lower floors of the keep in the castle courtyard still preserved today date from this time.
A splendid Renaissance castle followed in the 16th century. Two round corner towers were added to the south wing, and the keep was given an upper floor made of half-timbered houses . The three-winged Renaissance complex around the old keep, completed in 1600, was destroyed by French troops in 1689 during the Palatinate War of Succession with the entire city.
Baroque castle
Building history
Margravine Augusta Sibylla decided after the death of her husband, Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm ( Türkenlouis ) , to take her widow's seat in Ettlingen. From 1727 she had a baroque castle made of Loßburg sandstone built as her retirement home using the remaining ruins . The builder of the lavish palace with four wings, completed in 1733, was Johann Michael Ludwig Rohrer . With the death of the margravine in 1733, a long time began in which the castle was used for various purposes: as a guest house, from 1812 as a military hospital. In 1871 the Prussians installed a NCO school here. In 1912 the castle finally became the property of the city of Ettlingen.
Castle courtyard
In the clearly structured courtyard, the imposing pseudo-architecture on the south wing is impressive. This baroque illusion painting, together with the impressively designed entrance, gives the castle courtyard, which was restored in 1978, a splendid nuance. In the castle courtyard there is also the dolphin fountain from 1612, designed by the Renaissance master builder Johannes Schoch .
Asam hall
Augusta Sibylla turned her personal attention to the construction of the castle chapel, which was dedicated to the Bohemian Saint John of Nepomuk . The palace chapel was painted by Cosmas Damian Asam (1686–1739). It depicts the passion of St. Nepomuk in 30 frescoes. These are the only remaining frescoes by Cosmas Damian Asam on the Upper Rhine. Today the former chapel is the main hall of the castle.
Knight hall
In addition to the Asamaal, the knight's hall used by Margravine Augusta Sibylla as a ballroom with wall paintings in the window niches, a gently swinging gallery and the mighty chandelier from Bohemia is still one of the most representative rooms in the castle.
Use as a museum and event center
Today the castle is a museum and event center. The building houses the Albgau Museum with a collection on city history and archeology as well as a collection of regional art since 1900, especially by Karl Hofer , as well as a picture gallery. The museum shows East Asian handicrafts in the baroque ambience of the state rooms.
The Ettlinger Schlossfestspiele take place in the castle courtyard every summer . The palace chapel is used in particular for concerts such as the Schubertiade led by Thomas Seyboldt .
literature
- Peter Anstett: Asam hall in the castle of Ettlingen repaired. In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , 4th year 1975, issue 2, p. 84 ( PDF ) [not evaluated]
- Rüdiger Stenzel: Ettlingen: From the founding town of the Staufer to the sovereign town of the Margraves of Baden . In: Museumsgesellschaft Ettlingen e. V. and City History Commission Ettlingen (ed.): Ettlinger Hefte . Special issue 3 Festschrift 800 years of the city of Ettlingen pp. 5–40. Ettlingen 1992.
- Rüdiger Stenzel: Ettlingen from 1689–1815 . In: City of Ettlingen (ed.): History of the city of Ettlingen . tape 3 . Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 978-3-929366-77-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rüdiger Stenzel (1992), p. 5
- ↑ Rüdiger Stenzel (1992), p. 30
- ↑ Rüdiger Stenzel (1992), pp. 28-29
- ↑ Municipal Gallery. Retrieved July 25, 2015 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 56 ′ 25 ″ N , 8 ° 24 ′ 21 ″ E