Groeningen Castle

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The Castle Groningen is a four-story Renaissance building in the district of Groningen the municipality Satteldorf in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

history

The castle, a simple plastered building with sandstone integration, was built from 1611 to 1627 by Hans Philipp von Crailsheim and his wife Margarethe von Berlichingen , after the rule of Gröningen had come to them. Initially, however, the castle was mostly uninhabited. It was not until the end of the 18th century that the Lords of Seckendorff inherited it , that there was a court in Gröningen with a coachman, valet, maid, gardener and hunter.

In 1865 the castle was sold to the merchant and landlord Leonhard Keller from Engelhardshausen, who set up a grocer with an inn in it in 1866. When he went bankrupt in 1879 , the castle was auctioned by the farmer Georg Kraft from Heuchlingen , who transferred it to his daughter and her husband in 1881. The two, Georg and Katharina Frank, continued to run the inn and the shop. After the early death of her husband, Katharina Frank was not allowed to run an inn as a single woman, and the restaurant was first leased and then sold in 1903 to Wilhelm Wacker and his wife, who ran an inn with a shop in the castle from 1904.

Todays use

Today there is a restaurant with beer garden and business premises in the castle. The castle itself cannot be visited as it is partially inhabited.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '23 "  N , 10 ° 3' 59"  E