Hemmingen Castle

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South side of the main building
The new building

Hemmingen Castle is a castle in Hemmingen in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg . It consists of three parts of the building, the Old Castle , the New Building and the New Castle , which were built between the 14th century and the 18th century and were changed several times. Today the Hemmingen town hall is located in the main building.

history

As the oldest part of the complex, the Old Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1392 . However, it is assumed that the castle was built earlier and that there was even a front yard as a predecessor. The then four-story castle was probably built by the local nobility in Hemming, who died out in the male line in 1451 . In 1492 the castle was renovated to an unknown extent. In 1542, the so-called New Building was erected, a building with an originally massive two-story substructure, a slightly protruding half-timbered floor and a gable roof. This was used as a cellar on the ground floor and as a fruit box on the upper two floors until at least 1722, so that the building was colloquially called "box". In 1569 the existing wall around the castle, the new building and the Laurentius Church was replaced by a new curtain wall.

In the middle of the 17th century, the secret government councilor of Württemberg, Johann Conrad von Varnbuler, took over the Württemberg fiefdom of Hemmingen, since the lords of Nippenburg , who previously held the fiefdom, had died out in the male line in 1646 and the fiefdom had reverted to Württemberg. The castle was badly damaged during the Palatinate War of Succession . In 1709 a new building, the so-called Lower Building or Lower House, was built east of the old castle . The two-story building with a half-timbered upper floor and a passage to the garden that existed until 1788 was initially used on the ground floor as a drying oven and cider press before it was converted into living space in 1723. The conversion took place as part of a major renovation, in which the old castle was baroque and u. a. was equipped with a uniform window. In addition, a horse stable and a carriage hut were built between the old castle and the lower building, over which a corridor ran that connected the two buildings.

The next turning point in the history of the castle took place between 1852 and 1854. Karl von Varnbüler von und zu Hemmingen had the palace rebuilt in the style of a French manor based on plans by Christian Friedrich von Leins . For example, the two towers were attached to the north side of the old castle, which are connected by a balcony. In addition, the buildings between the old castle and the lower building were demolished and replaced by a new, massive building, and several turrets and bay windows were attached to the complex. In 1873 the remains of the still existing trench were leveled.

The castle was owned by the Varnbüler family until after the Second World War. a. Seat of a women's monastery before it was converted into the town hall in 1985.

literature

  • Walter Driver: Hemmingen Castle. From a permanent structure to a romantic castle. Published by the municipality of Hemmingen, Hemmingen 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Driver: Schloss Hemmingen , p. 12.
  2. ↑ a b Ulrich Hartmann [Ed.]: The Ludwigsburg district. Theiss, Stuttgart and Aalen 1977, ISBN 3-8062-0168-4 , p. 159.
  3. ^ Driver: Schloss Hemmingen , p. 33.
  4. ^ Drivers: Schloss Hemmingen , p. 32.
  5. ^ Community Hemmingen [Hrsg.]: Heimatbuch Hemmingen. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1991, ISBN 3-89264-642-2 , p. 62.
  6. ^ Ulrich Gräf: Art and cultural monuments in the Ludwigsburg district. Theiss, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0466-7 , p. 130.
  7. ^ Drivers: Schloss Hemmingen , p. 34.
  8. ^ Drivers: Schloss Hemmingen , p. 35f.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Driver: Schloss Hemmingen , p. 37.
  11. ^ Drivers: Schloss Hemmingen , p. 38.
  12. ↑ Description of the Oberamt Leonberg. Published by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau, Stuttgart, Müller, 1852, p. 159.
  13. ^ Christian Ottersbach, Holger Starzmann: Castles - Palaces - Manor houses. Volume 5. Imhof-Verlag, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-638-1 , p. 98.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '57 "  N , 9 ° 2' 8.6"  E