Koengen Castle

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Koengen Castle

Schloss Köngen is an originally built in the 13th century castle in Köngen in the district of Esslingen . In the 19th century, the four-wing complex was converted into a two-wing classicist country palace.

description

The castle is a two-wing building with a hipped roof. Two cantilevered, plastered half-timbered floors are placed on a massive ground floor. The so-called knight's hall is located on the north side of the north wing. In the wood-paneled room there are several portraits of well-known European rulers such as Charlemagne , Frederick I Barbarossa , Julius Caesar and a painting by the Ottoman sultan Suleyman I.

history

Around 1382, Köngen came to the Graubünden noble family of Thumb von Neuburg through marriage . They had a four-winged castle built in 1392, which was expanded six years later to include a kennel and a moat. In 1463 the castle was divided into the front castle and the rear castle for the first time . The front lock consisted of the south and east wings, the rear lock of the north and west wings. In the years 1538 and 1539 the castle was rebuilt in the Renaissance style by Hans Friedrich Thumb von Neuburg. In the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century, the castle was changed again and again, in 1614 and 1620 also by the Württemberg state master builder Heinrich Schickhardt . After the Thirty Years War , part of the castle became a temporary rectory. In 1666 part of the reign of Köngen and the front castle came to Württemberg and became the seat of the Württemberg bailiff. In 1678, the Württemberg part was sold by Köngen to Philipp Konrad von Liebenstein , but was repurchased in 1687. During the Palatinate War of Succession , the castle burned down almost completely. In 1739, the rear part of the castle, which had remained in the possession of Thumb von Neuburg, was also sold to the House of Württemberg by Wilhelm Ludwig Thumb von Neuburg. Köngen Castle was used in the 18th century as an official residence, a fruit box and a "church council file". The castle was acquired in 1825 by the Vice President of the Constitutional Commission of the Kingdom of Württemberg , Jakob Friedrich Weishaar . In the following years he had the castle completely rebuilt. The east and south wings of the palace and the wall surrounding the palace were demolished and the moat was filled in. The remaining rear castle was rebuilt by the architect Karl Marcell Heigelin in the style of a classicist country house and equipped with a hipped roof . After the death of Weishaar's wife Marie in 1886, the palace was not used, but around 1900 the palace became the workplace of several painters such as Anna Peters and Christian Mali . The castle fell into disrepair more and more in the 20th century, until 1991 the municipality of Köngen decided to buy and renovate the castle. From 1995 to 2007 the exterior facade and the interior rooms were fundamentally repaired so that it could be inaugurated on September 14, 2007. Since then, most of the interior has been used for commercial purposes, the castle cellar, the castle chapel and the knight's hall are available to the public.

The Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation named the castle Monument of the Month for September 2004 .

literature

  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg [Hrsg.]: Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, booklet 9. Köngen Castle. Fink, Lindenberg, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89870-653-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Braun [ed.]: The Esslingen district. Theiss, Stuttgart, 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1005-5 , p. 224.
  2. ^ Norbert Bongartz, Jörg Biel: Art, archeology and museums in the Esslingen district. Theiss, Stuttgart, 1983, ISBN 3-8062-0319-9 , p. 157.
  3. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg [ed.]: Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume 9. Köngen Castle. Pp. 27-29.
  4. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg [ed.]: Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, issue 9. Köngen Castle. P. 14.
  5. ↑ a b c History of Köngen Castle on the website of the municipality of Köngen . Accessed June 26, 2014.
  6. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg [ed.]: Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, issue 9. Köngen Castle. P. 21.
  7. ^ Description of the Oberamt Eßlingen. Published by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau, Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1845, p. 206.

Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 8.5 ″  N , 9 ° 21 ′ 37.1 ″  E