Löwenstein Castle

Löwenstein Castle, main view

The Lowenstein Castle is a castle in Kleinheubach in the Lower Franconian district of Miltenberg .

history

Löwenstein Castle, aerial photo 2008

Löwenstein Castle, central building

Castle chapel, altar wall with paintings by Eduard von Steinle

In 1721, Prince Dominik Marquard zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort - from the new Catholic line of the old aristocratic family - acquired the Kleinheubach lordship including the Georgenburg, built by Georg Graf von Erbach towards the end of the 16th century, from Friedrich Karl Graf zu Erbach-Erbach . After the last Count Philipp von Rieneck , whose wife Margarethe was a Countess von Erbach, the rule of Kleinheubach fell to the Erbach family as a Palatinate fief.

Dominik Marquard had the new castle built between 1721 and 1732. The planning came from Louis Remy de la Fosse , who from 1714 was the chief architect in Darmstadt in the service of Landgrave Ernst Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt . The work was carried out by the well-known Bavarian master builder Johann Dientzenhofer († 1726) from Bamberg and, after his death, by the master builder Rinscher from Mannheim. The sculptural work came from the Würzburg court sculptor Jakob van der Auwera ; other well-known craftsmen were involved in the construction.

Due to its generosity with the three-winged courtyard, the palace complex is considered an important late baroque palace in southern Germany. Today's palace ensemble was supplemented by several classicist buildings, the greenhouse (1780), the servants' building (1807-1824) and the riding school (1812). The palace chapel was painted in the Nazarene style in 1870 by Eduard von Steinle , Leopold Bode and Ferdinand Becker .

The current owner of the complex is the Fürst zu Löwenstein Foundation, represented by Alois Konstantin Fürst zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg .

use

The castle was rented in 1948 by the Deutsche Post, or the Central Telecommunications Office , for use as a training and educational facility for the higher and higher telecommunications service. Telekom, represented by DeTeImmobilien , continued to use the castle as legal successor after the privatization. The castle has been operated as a conference venue by a conference specialist for historical locations since 2012 . Part of the building serves as a living area for the princely family.

literature

Anton Rahrbach, Jörg Schöffl, Otto Schramm: Palaces and castles in Lower Franconia - A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Lower Franconian independent cities and districts . Hofmann Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-87191-309-X , pp. 94-95

gallery

Löwenstein Castle, drawing by Wilhelm Völker , 1851
View of the castle around 1880
Palace chapel, overview photo
Palace chapel, altar area
High altar of the palace chapel, in front of it the lord of the palace, Alois Konstantin, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
Castle chapel ceiling
Assumption of the Virgin Mary, high altar painting by Eduard von Steinle in the palace chapel
Protective mantle Madonna by Ferdinand Becker in the castle chapel
Medallions of saints by Ferdinand Becker in the palace chapel
Historical photo of the high altar paintings by Eduard von Steinle in the palace chapel, 1909

Web links

Commons : Schloss Löwenstein - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Löwenstein Castle

Individual evidence

↑ Gustav Simon : The history of the dynasts and counts of Erbach and their country. HL Brönner, Frankfurt am Main 1858, p. 241ff.

↑ ^a ^b ^c The art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Volume 3: District of Lower Franconia. Issue 18: Felix Mader , Hans Karlinger : District Office Miltenberg. With a historical introduction by Max Kaufmann. Oldenbourg, Munich 1917 (Unchanged reprint. Ibid 1981, ISBN 3-486-50472-X ).

↑ Jakob van der Auwera in Würzburgwiki

^ Biographies of Gonsenheim artists: Painter Becker (1846 - 1877)