Laumersheim Castle

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Laumersheim Castle
Laumersheim Castle from the southwest (main street)

Laumersheim Castle from the southwest (main street)

Data
place Laumersheim
architect Franz Caspar von Langen
Architectural style Baroque
Construction year 18th century
Laumersheim Castle from the east (Schlossstrasse; the gate entrance at the bottom right)
Detail of the gate, with the apex stone 1724
Gate entrance to Schlossstrasse

The Laumersheimer Schloss is a baroque palace building in the local community of Laumersheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Bad Dürkheim .

History of the castle

As early as the 14th century, the Knights of Flersheim held a noble seat of the diocese of Worms as a fief in Laumersheim . In 1492, the couple Hans von Flersheim ( Electoral Palatinate bailiff of Kaiserslautern ) and Ottilie nee built on the site of today's castle . Kranich von Kirchheim built a moated castle . Their children, some of whom grew up there, were the Speyer prince-bishop Philipp von Flersheim (1481–1552) and his sister Hedwig von Flersheim († 1516), wife of the famous knight Franz von Sickingen . In a feud with the Electoral Palatinate , their Dirmstein bailiff Conrad Kolb von Wartenberg came to Laumersheim in 1522 and plundered the Flersheim aristocratic seat. In 1550 Friedrich von Flersheim rebuilt the castle. From 1651 it fell to the von der Leyen family and later to the von Hartenfeld family . In the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689, it was destroyed by the French.

Baroque Franz Caspar von Langen († 1737) built today's baroque palace on the ruins from 1710, which also contained a theater. In 1783 a major renovation was carried out after the property had come to the Palatinate Minister Franz Albert Leopold von Oberndorff . The building belonged to his family until 1841, after which it fell into bourgeois hands and has remained private property to this day. In 1893 it was partially demolished, including a six-story tower. At the time of the Counts of Oberndorff, the castle had a geometrically laid out garden, the plan of which still exists. There was also a chapel in the building, because Count von Oberndorff obtained permission from Bishop Joseph Ludwig Colmar in Mainz in 1806 that the clergyman living with him could celebrate Holy Mass in his Laumersheim palace chapel "as before" .

Building stock

Today's palace building (Hauptstrasse 35) is only the southern part of the original complex, serves as a residential building with its outbuildings and is currently in a poor, partially neglected condition.

It is a two-story, rectangular baroque house with a mansard roof , as well as 5 window axes to the main street and 9 window axes to the Schlossstraße. The window and entrance portal to the main street are framed with broken frames, on Schlossstraße there is a wicker gate entrance, with spars and rusticated framing, above curved gables with volutes . The top stone bears the year 1724 . The corners of the house on the south side are designed with rusticated corner pilasters. Remnants of the wall and the cellar vault are still standing from the dismantled north building.

Inaccessible to the public, there is an edification inscription by Hans and Ottilie von Flersheim on the west side, with the alliance coat of arms and the year 1492; in addition, another coat of arms inscription dated 1550 by Friedrich von Flersheim and his wife Magdalena von Obrigheim .

literature

  • State Office for Monument Preservation: The Art Monuments of Bavaria. Administrative district Pfalz, VIII. Stadt und Landkreis Frankenthal, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1939, pp. 378–380
  • Karl Geib: travel manual through all parts of the royal Bavarian Palatinate. Zweibrücken, 1841, p. 163; (Digital scan)

Web links

Commons : Schloss Laumersheim  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website on Hedwig von Flersheim ( Memento from August 17, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Pfalzbaierisches Museum , Volume 4, p. 259 u. 260, Mannheim, 1787; (Digital scan)
  3. ^ Franz Bernhard von Bucholtz : History of the Government of Ferdinand the First , Volume 2, p. 106, Vienna, 1831; (Digital scan)
  4. ^ Ernst Hermann Joseph Münch : Franz von Sickingen's Thaten, Plane, Friends and Exit , Volume 1, p. 358, Cottasche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart, 1827; (Digital scan)
  5. ^ Ferdinand Werner, Andreas Schenk: Mannheimer Villen: Architektur und Wohnkultur in den Quadrates and Oststadt , Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2009, p. 19, ISBN 3-88462-289-7 ; (Digital scan)
  6. ↑ Georg May : The right to worship in the Diocese of Mainz at the time of Bishop Joseph Ludwig Colmar (1802-1818) , Verlag BR Grüner, Amsterdam, 1987, ISBN 90-6032-290-8 , p. 349; (Digital scan)

Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 10.4 "  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 12.3"  E