Freudental Castle (Freudental)

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Aerial view of the Freudental Castle
Garden side of the Freudentaler Schloss with the countess's rooms
Courtyard view of the castle
Plans of the castle with alterations and reconstruction of the rooms

The Freudental Castle or Grävenitzsche Castle is a baroque style castle in Freudental in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

Before the palace was built in 1729, there was already a previous building that was built in the 16th century. 1727 bought the Landeshofmeisterin and mistress of Duke Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg , Wilhelmine von Grävenitz , Freudental for 47,000 guilders from an extension line of Thüngen . Grävenitz had the existing building renovated in 1728 by the builder Paolo Retti . Paolo Retti had already participated in the construction of the Ludwigsburg Palace . In 1729, the countess commissioned the builder and entrepreneur to build a new castle, which adjoined the old building to the south and was completed in 1731. Retti received 10,000 guilders for the turnkey handover. Just one year later, the Countess Freudental and the castle lost to Württemberg. Duke Eberhard Ludwig had separated from his mistress of many years and had her illegally arrested in Freudental.

From 1742 the building was the seat of the chief forest master at Stromberg, from 1807 also the seat of the camera administration of the court and domain chamber. 1810 was King Frederick I of Württemberg by Nicholas Thouret run to expand around the Castle to his hunting lodge and summer palace far-reaching changes. King Friedrich had the old wing of the palace removed down to the ground floor and redesigned it as a cavalier building longer and higher. The interior of the countess's new castle was completely rebuilt. After Friedrich's death in 1816, the building was not used for a long time. In 1860 the official apartment of the court chamber forester and, in the meantime, a Christian elementary school were housed in the Kavaliersbau. From 1867 onwards, the pensioners of the Katharinenstift also spent their summer holidays on the castle estate. In 1903 Baron Wilhelm Schertel von Burtenbach bought the entire property. In 1911 the castle was sold to the Stuttgart Local Health Insurance Association for 70,000 marks , which had the building converted by the architects Suter & Liedecke. During both world wars the castle was a hospital. In the first post-war years, a lung sanatorium was operated in Grävenitz Castle, before it was bought in 1961 for 730,000 DM by the Ludwigsburg district, who had it converted into a nursing home for 500,000 DM. From 1962 the old people's and nursing home of the Ludwigsburg district was located here. In 2007 the castle was bought by the art dealer and publisher Rudolf Bayer and has been a conference venue ever since.

Castle garden

The Countess von Graevenitz laid out an orangery and a garden around the castle . King Friedrich I had the garden expanded to an area of ​​11 hectares and laid out in the style of an English landscape garden. The Englischer Graben , which surrounds the garden, also dates from this period . A straight path runs through the center of the park, the Königsstrasse , which was supposed to connect the castle with the Bietigheimer Chaussee. On each side there is a rectangular pond with islands, on which Friedrich housed a bird house and a billiard pavilion.

Web links

literature

  • Daniel Schulz: Joy and Sorrow. Countess Christina Wilhelmina von Würben (née von Grävenitz) and Freudental. In: Ludwigsburger Geschichtsblätter 72/2018, pp. 75-100. Download at Academia.edu article
  • Eberhard Fritz: The royal hunting lodge on Stromberg. King Friedrich of Württemberg in Freudental. In: Ludwigsburger Geschichtsblätter 72/2018, s. 101-122.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Felix Beßler: The recreation home "Schloss Freudental". Klett, Stuttgart.
  2. ↑ a b c Theodor Bolay: Freudental. Kohl, Brackenheim 1963.
  3. ^ Daniel Schulz: Joy and Sorrow. Countess Christina Wilhelmina von Würben (née von Grävenitz) and Freudental. In: Ludwigsburger Geschichtsblätter 72/2018, p. 86.
  4. ↑ Schulz 2018, pp. 86–89.
  5. ^ Ulrich Gräf: Art and cultural monuments in the Ludwigsburg district. Theiss, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0466-7 , p. 112.
  6. ↑ Schulz 2018, pp. 95–96.
  7. ^ Ulrich Hartmann [Ed.]: The Ludwigsburg district. 2nd edition, Theiss, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8062-1055-1 , p. 189.
  8. ↑ Schulz 2018, p. 88.
  9. ↑ Description of the Oberamt Besigheim. Issued by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau; Unchanged reprint of the edition from 1853, Bissinger, Magstadt 1962, p. 168.
  10. ↑ Dagmar Zimdars [edit.]: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Baden-Württemberg I. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 245.
  11. ^ Website on the history of the castle . Accessed January 18, 2019

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 '31.4 "  N , 9 ° 3' 42.1"  E