Hochdorf Castle (Remseck)

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Hochdorf Castle

Hochdorf Castle is a castle in the Hochdorf district of the large district town of Remseck am Neckar in Baden-Württemberg .

history

prehistory

In place of today's castle, a castle was built on a spur above Zipfelbach and Strombach in the early 13th century . The builders were members of the Hochdorf local nobility, who descended from the Lords of Owen. At that time they were ministerials for the Counts of Calw-Löwenstein , who also owned Wolfsölden and the surrounding area of ​​Hochdorf.

In 1345 Werner II. Nothaft from the family of the Nothafts von Hohenberg bought the castle and goods in the village. Around 1428 the castle was only mentioned as a castle stable . Apparently the stones were used to expand Hochberg Castle , which was the headquarters of the Nothafts. In 1513 Jakob von Bernhausen bought the Nothaft property in Hochdorf, including the Burgstall, from his father-in-law Jörg Nothaft.

Construction and changing rule

From 1514, Jakob von Bernhausen began building a successor building on the site of the old castle - today's castle. It was still a single-storey building. However, his heirs could not hold the property in Hochdorf and sold the village and castle to the Holdermann von Holderstein family in 1547. These complemented the half-timbered upper floor of the castle. In 1603, Matthäus Enzlin acquired the castle and the rulership of the village from the Holdermanns and incorporated them into Württemberg . After Enzlin's arrest, Württemberg sold Hochdorf and its castle back to the Nothaft von Hohenberg family in 1609.

The Nothaft now incorporated Hochdorf into their rule Hochberg and began to convert the castle of Jakob von Bernhausen for their purposes. The renovation of the castle was carried out by the Württemberg master builder Heinrich Schickhardt on behalf of Jakob Nothaft until 1612. After the emergency had died out, a branch of the von Gemmingen family inherited the entire Hochberg-Hochdorf estate, including Hochdorf Castle, in 1681. In 1779 the castle was finally sold back to Württemberg.

Civil use

From 1760 onwards, initiated by the Gemmingens, beer began to be brewed in the castle. In 1796 the unprofitable brewery was closed again. In 1797 the building was sold to several people, including the Hochdorf mayor Mattheus Klemmer.

Until it was incorporated into Remseck in 1975, the castle housed the Hochdorf town hall, among other things. From then on, a branch of the Remseck town hall, a citizens' hall and a branch of the community library were located here. Parts of the castle are in private use.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Eduard Theiner, Thomas Ebinger: Hochdorf - a Remseck district through the ages . In: Local history publication series of the city of Remseck am Neckar . tape 16 , 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Dr. Norbert Stein, Eduard Theiner, Heinz Pfizenmayer: The Lords of Kaltental and the imperial free Nothaft von Hohenberg . In: Heinz Pfizenmayer (Hrsg.): Local history series of publications of the municipality of Remseck am Neckar . tape 9 , 1989.
  3. ↑ Thomas Müller, Kristina Anger: Castles and palaces in the Ludwigsburg region . Ed .: Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung. Ungeheuer + Ulmer, Ludwigsburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-930872-65-7 , pp. 104, 105 .
  4. ^ Eduard Theiner: Historical tour through Remseck-Hochdorf. (PDF; 2.2 MB) In: stadt-remseck.de. City of Remseck, 2011, accessed on March 31, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 51.7 "  N , 9 ° 17 ′ 45.7"  E