Gondelsheim Castle
Schloss Gondelsheim is a castle in the municipality of Gondelsheim in the district of Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg .
history
The castle was built on the spot where a castle had stood since the Middle Ages , which had been destroyed in the Peasants 'War and the Thirty Years' War . It was owned by various houses, from the late 17th century to the late 18th century by the Lords of Mentzingen , until it was bought in 1790 by the Margraves of Baden Friedrich (1756-1817) and Ludwig Wilhelm August , who later became Grand Duke Ludwig I. .
Grand Duke Ludwig I inherited the palace as his private property to his son Ludwig Wilhelm August, Count von Langenstein and Gondelsheim (1820–1873). After his death it passed to his sister Luise (1825–1900), who was married to Carl Israel, Count Douglas (1824–1898). This legacy also included Langenstein Castle in Hegau, where the German line of the Counts of Douglas still lives today.
Count Ludwig Wilhelm August von Langenstein und Gondelsheim had today's castle built in 1857. The plans for the building, which was built in a Scottish-neo-Gothic style, were designed by the Freiburg architect Georg Jakob Schneider . In 1906, more Art Nouveau wings were added.
In 2003 a donor-financed nymph fountain was built in the palace gardens, which is a replica of the original “Three Dancing Girls” by Walter Schott in 1903 and of which there are only four other copies worldwide.
On May 21, 2010, the sale of the Gondelsheim Castle by Axel Graf Douglas to a Heidelberg businessman was notarized.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 39.3 " N , 8 ° 39 ′ 41.6" E