Harteneck Castle

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Harteneck Castle, south view

Castle Harteneck is overbuilt, former Ridge Castle from the 13th century and today is a country closed with courtyard in Württemberg Baden- Ludwigsburg . It was also known under the names Herthenegge , Herteneck and Hertneck and is also called Schlössle .

Brief description

The castle estate is located on the edge of a slope " close to the corner " above the Neckar opposite Neckarweihingen . Parts of the ring walls and the old knight's hall have been preserved from the former castle . This building fabric consists of small, elongated rubble stones in a random association. An apparently to the 17th century existing dungeon came off.

history

Harteneck 1816, drawing by Karl Nördlinger
Harteneck 1685, Kiesersche forest map
Castle relics from the gate in the east

Harteneck was the ancestral seat of the Free Imperial Knights Herter von Hertneck , who came from the old noble family of the Herter from Dusslingen near Tübingen .

The castle was probably built by the Herters as part of the territorial policy of the Tübingen Count Palatine during the Interregnum period (1254–1273). In a document from 1270, a "Herther de Herthenegge" is mentioned as a witness for the first time. The former existence of a donjon suggests that it was built earlier or that a predecessor castle was conceivable, but the view that the Margraves of Baden could have built the castle together with the neighboring Hoheneck Castle around 1200 is now questionable.

Probably for financial problems the Herter of Hertneck the castle in 1440 sold to the men of Baldeck. They in turn sold them to the Württemberg people in 1536 . Due to the merits of the Württemberg steward Hans Herter von Hertneck (1519–1562), the Herter received their castle, now called "Schloss Herteneck", in 1554 as a Württemberg inheritance . After Hans Herter von Hertneck gave up his nobility rights shortly before his death for unknown reasons, his son Christoph reversed the fiefdom in 1590 to the Württemberg people.

After further sales, Harteneck came into the possession of the Lords of Kniestedt in 1705 , who shortly after had it rebuilt in the baroque style according to contemporary tastes. In 1767 they sold the castle to the Ludwigsburg hospital . A year later the fiefdom was dissolved and incorporated into the city of Ludwigsburg.

The mayor of Ludwigsburg Schönleber had the palace rebuilt. In 1785 the farmer Melchior Schwaderer bought it. Harteneck's heirs sold in 1838 to the Ludwigsburg government councilor von Abel, who in turn sold it to the Ludwigsburg businessman Ruof in 1851. It finally came to the Bilfinger family through marriage.

After fire damage in 1993/94, the castle was renovated in 2003 and is now a listed building . It is currently privately owned. Visits are not possible.

literature

  • Stefan Uhl: Harteneck Castle near Ludwigsburg. Comments on the medieval building stock . In: Historical association for Ludwigsburg and the surrounding area (ed.): Ludwigsburg history sheets . No. 44, 1990, ISSN  0179-1842 , pp. 51-64.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Karl Pfaff: History of the Princely House and Land Wirtemberg . Volume 1. 1839, p. 251: “The ancestral castle of the Herteneck family was Herteneck near Neckarweihingen (Ludwigsburg), its various branches differed by the surnames of Dusslingen, which had its own noblemen in the 12th century, of Oßweil, of Schildeck and from Herteneck. "
  2. ↑ Wirtemberg document book . Volume VII, No. 2155. Stuttgart 1900, pp. 96-100 ( digitized version , online edition ): "… dictus Herther de Herthenegge"
  3. ↑ This view is based on a copy of a document from 1288, in which a "Hacge de Hertenegge" is mentioned ( Wirtembergisches Urkundenbuch . Volume IX, No. 3739. Stuttgart 1907, p. 205 ( digitized , online edition )). This is probably a typographical error. The hoes sat as Baden vassals at Hoheneck Castle opposite Harteneck. In another document from 1285 on the same process, this hack is correctly referred to as Hoheneck's hack ( Wirtembergisches Urkundenbuch . Volume IX, No. 3479. Stuttgart 1907, p. 45 f. ( Digitized , online edition )). See: Stefan Uhl, Harteneck Castle near Ludwigsburg. In: Ludwigsburger Geschichtsblätter, Ludwigsburg 44/1990, p. 62
  4. ↑ fief lapel of Hans Christoph Herter of Herteneck against Duke Louis of Württemberg Castle Herteneck [Harteneck] and accessories from March 9, 1590 (copy of 1714), of: Central State Archive Stuttgart  : 373 L Bu. 6

Web links

Commons : Schloss Harteneck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 20.5 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 18.7 ″  E