Hohenstein Castle (Bönnigheim)

Hohenstein Castle (left half of the picture)

Schloss Hohenstein is a style renaissance built castle in Hohenstein in the district of Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg .

history

A castle in the location of today's palace is mentioned as early as 1250 . The lords of Howenstein owned the castle. After the line died out in 1443, Württemberg took over the village and castle and lent it to the Lords of Sachsenheim as a man fief . These in turn sold half of the castle to the Lords of Talheim and half of the Lords of Lierheim. The gentlemen of Talheim later gave their half to the gentlemen of Winnenden. The castle is said to have fallen apart as early as 1550. In 1555 the ruins fell back to Württemberg, who distributed them to the Lords of Plieningen and the Obervogt von Brackenheim. In 1593 the Plieningen demolished the castle and instead built a castle in the same place.

A hundred years later, as a result of the War of the Palatinate Succession , the castle was burned down by the troops of Ezéchiel de Mélacs . From 1696 to 1698, however, it was rebuilt by Maria Magdalena von Gaisberg, born Schertlin von Burtenbach rebuilt, this time in the Renaissance style, as can be seen on the hipped roof and the baroque stucco. The destroyed east wing was left out. Around 1740 the lords of Schütz-Pflummer bought Hohenstein, but the village and castle had to be sold again due to financial bottlenecks. A few years later, however, the castle could be acquired again by the Schütz-Pflummers.

In 1942 the castle was sold, this time to the National Socialist Women . After the war, Otto Mecheels founded the Hohenstein Institute in 1946 , which is still based in Hohenstein Castle today.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. 370.
2. ^ City of Bönnigheim: Bönnigheim Hohenstein Hofen. Bönnigheim 1984, p. 430.
3. ^ Ulrich Hartmann [Ed.]: The Ludwigsburg district. 2nd, revised edition, Theiss, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8062-1055-1 , p. 183.
4. ↑ Description of the Oberamt Besigheim. Issued by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau; Unchanged reprint of the version from 1853, Bissinger, Magstadt 1962, p. 206.
5. ^ Ulrich Gräf: Art and cultural monuments in the Ludwigsburg district. Theiss, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0466-7 , p. 84.
6. ^ Philosophy of the Hohenstein Institute . Accessed January 31, 2014.

Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 21.3 ″  N , 9 ° 7 ′ 5 ″  E