Hermersberg Castle

Hermersberg Castle from the north-west

The Hermersberg Castle stands on a plateau southwest of the city Niedernhall in Hohenlohekreis and was probably built in the 15th century at the latest.

location

The former hunting lodge is remote from settlements and surrounded by meadows at around 350  m above sea level. NHN at the southwest end of an otherwise arable plateau above the 150 meters deeper Kochertal in the north, which slopes over a wide forest belt to the copper to the southwest and to its tributary Zimmerbach to the south. The farm buildings are located in the south-west of the complex, which is surrounded by a moat that is now only partially preserved in the south and west. Immediately to the east of it is an artificial lake of almost 0.9 hectares.

Building history

In the east wing of the castle, the oldest parts, probably from the 15th century, have been preserved. In 1530/40, the round stair tower was added under Count Georg I von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein . Between 1551 and 1568, Count Ludwig Kasimir added a long western wing, the current central wing, and he had the complex walled and a gate tower built in the west. In 1588 the half-timbered structure on the stair tower was renewed, in 1589 that of the intermediate structure, at the same time the fountain was redesigned, a garden was laid out and the moat was moved. From 1599–1610 the hall wing was built. In 1743 the horse stable was built in the north, in the place of which the shepherd's house had already been demolished in 1706. In 1756 window frames with Nuremberg plate glass were installed by a carpenter in Ingelfingen . In 1768 the stone bridge was built over the moat, whether the replacement of the old ceiling in the hall with a coffered ceiling , which was intended in 1777 , is questionable. As part of major repairs, a wooden staircase was installed on the first floor of the central building in 1794.

today

Hermersberg Castle last belonged to the Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen and was in a desperate state when it was acquired by the Künzelsau entrepreneur Reinhold Würth in the early 1970s . After extensive restoration, it has served as a family residence since April 30, 1974.

literature

• Jürgen Hermann Rauser: Niedernhaller Heimatbuch (= Heimatbücherei Hohenlohekreis. Vol. 7, ZDB -ID 2295393-0 ). City of Niedernhall, Niedernhall 1981, p. 142 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dagmar Deckstein : Würth's world. ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 7, 2008. (Accessed January 13, 2018). 

Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 34.1 ″  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 5.4 ″  E