Jestetten Castle

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Jestetten Castle
Creation time : 11th century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Rebuilt, round tower, stepped gable
Standing position : Noble von Jestetten, von Jünteler, Count von Sulz, Prince Schwarzenberg
Place: Jestetten
Geographical location 47 ° 39 '4 "  N , 8 ° 33' 56.9"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '4 "  N , 8 ° 33' 56.9"  E
Jestetten Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Jestetten Castle

Jestetten Castle , also called Upper Castle , is located in the municipality of Jestetten . The Berg Tabor monastery was located here from 1774 to 1806 . Nursing facilities have been located in the castle since 1878.

history

The nobles of Jestetten once sat in the early building; they are first mentioned in 1135. The von Jünteler patrician family from Schaffhausen later lived here. In 1488 this family sold the castle to Count Alwig X. von Sulz . The Counts of Sulz made it their second residence after Tiengen Castle , after the important base, Balm Castle, was destroyed in 1449 in order to be able to monitor the then extensive property in the upper Klettgau and the Rafzerfeld . From 1687 Jestetten Castle became part of the Schwarzenberg rule .

From 1774 to 1806 the castle housed a women's monastery and a religious establishment of the Redemptorists , the Berg Tabor monastery . It was founded by Pastor Josef Helg who had already founded the mother monastery in Berg Sion . At that time (1802 to 1805) St. Klemens Maria Hofbauer , remembered by a plaque in the courtyard. On the occasion of a trip to Switzerland, Father Klemens Hofbauer visited the Tabor convent in Jestetten, in the vicinity of which he wanted to establish his own monastery. He arrived in Jestetten on December 30, 1802 with Father Thaddäus Hübl, the student Franz Hofbauer, his nephew, and the novice Johannes Sabelli. The community existed until 1805.

From 1830 the building was the seat of the Jestetten district office, then the district court and district court prison.

In 1878 the district nursing home was established here. In 1940 more than 200 residents of the district care facility were transported to the Grafeneck killing facility and murdered there with gas.

From 1942 to 1975 Jestetten Castle served as a lung sanatorium.

Today the Jestetten district old people's and nursing home is located here.

More castles

In Jestetten there were once more castles such as the Edenburg and the Jestetten Castle, also called Lower Castle or Greuthsches Schlösschen (after the von Greuth family who owned it). In 1707 the Imperial Councilor and envoy in Chur , Baron Äegidius von Greuth, sold the Lower Castle to the Schwarzenbergs. It mainly consisted of a square residential tower. This was put down around 1850.

literature

  • Municipality of Jestetten, The Jestetter Village Book, Altenburg and Jestetten in the past and present , Karl-Hellmuth Jahnke and Erich Danner (eds.), 2001, ISBN 3-89870-039-9
  • Berthold Danner, A Glimpse of Yesterday, Old Pictures from Jestetten and Altenburg , 1992

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Bächthold: Jestetten in the Middle Ages. In: Das Jestetter Dorfbuch, 2001, pp. 75 ff.
  2. ↑ Karl-Hellmuth Jahnke and Erich Danner (eds.): The Jestetter village book, Altenburg and Jestetten in past and present. Municipality of Jestetten, 2001, ISBN 3-89870-039-9 , p. 349
  3. ^ Memorandum on the Jestetten District Care Institution of the Waldshut District Association on the occasion of the institution's 50th anniversary 1878–1928. 1928
  4. ↑ Erich Danner: The ordeal of the disabled from the Jestetter district care facility in the "Third Reich" . In: Chronicle of the year. Jestetten, 1993
  5. ↑ Municipality of Jestetten: The Upper Castle.
  6. ↑ Berthold Danner: A look to yesterday, old pictures from Jestetten and Altenburg. 1992, here: Chapter 7