Leinstetten Castle

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Leinstetten Castle

The Leinstetten Castle is located in the Leinstetten district of the city of Dornhan in the Rottweil district on the Heimbach Glatt tributary and is private property of the Barons von Podewils . The owners Edwin and Bogislav von Podewils now use the castle for private purposes.

Building history

Landesarchiv Ba-Wü StAS KI maps and plans / 1573 - approx. 2000 / Knightly free Pürsch in Swabia on the Neckar and Black Forest 1705 Leinstetten with palace and castle Leinstetten

The local historical literature assumes that the main house is a Renaissance building and under Hans Marx III. von Bubenhofen (1571–1617) was either rebuilt or renovated in 1609/10. The gable of the main building bears the year 1609/10. One stone of the older building even shows the year 1591 with the names of Hans Marx von Bubenhofen and Katharina von Freyberg. In the revised handbook of the historic sites of Baden-Württemberg in 1980, the opinion is still held that Leinstetten Castle was built in the 18th century in the Rococo style. The stylistic classification thus follows that of the inventory of the Black Forest district from 1897 and the description of the Oberamtses von Sulz from 1863, which Philipp Jakob von Frank (1746–1798) names as the builder of the knightly castle.

Building description

The local historical literature is based in its assignment of the architectural styles of individual building parts on findings in connection with the renovation of the castle building in the years 1974 to 1980 under the expert guidance of the monument office. It assigns the main building to the Renaissance, the gardener's house to the Baroque and the horse stable to Historicism.

According to Willig, the palace complex consists of two buildings, the older Renaissance building, a two-story stone house with tail gables and the Bubenhofen-Freyberg and Podewils coats of arms above the entrance and the city palace-like two-story mansion under a hipped roof. It was subsequently given a balcony with a view of the originally French garden.

What is certain is that the elongated two-story New Castle with a curved ornamental gable already existed around 1824 . It had five heatable and 23 non-heatable rooms as well as two spacious fruit floors. The gardener's house from the 18th century with two rooms and three chambers plus a green room is still there. Large parts of an elaborate balustrade made of red sandstone that surround the castle area have been preserved, with a driveway flanked by stately fluted round columns crowned by vases. Like the garden house, they were built by Philipp Jakob von Frank. Originally, the building was surrounded by a French park and garden.

Friedrich August Köhler describes the palace complex as it was at the beginning of the 19th century in detail.

Ownership history

Leinstetten - Parish Church St. Stephan - Epitaph of Hans Marx von Bubenhofen zu Leinstetten and Lichtenfels († 1617)
Leinstetten - Parish Church St. Stephan - Epitaph of Katharina von Bubenhofen born. Freyberg , Freiin zu Justingen and Öpfingen ∞ Hans Marx III. († 1617)

The first castle owner is said to be Hans Marx III. von Bubenhofen (1571–1617). His wife was Katharina geb. von Freyberg , Freiin zu Justingen and Öpfingen . In 1784, Philipp Jakob von Frank, a wealthy Strasbourg merchant who had been raised to the nobility in 1780, acquired the castle. According to the description of the upper office from 1863, he had the new castle built. In the chronicle of Pastor Koch (1841) it is only noted that Mr. von Frank had a lot of the castle buildings and goods improved . With the manor he was admitted to the Swabian Imperial Knighthood in 1789. He died in the same year and the following year his widow sold Leinstetten with the Lichtenfels castle stable to Count Ludwig Friedrich Eberhard von Sponeck . He moved his residence to the castle in Leinstetten. He granted the village market rights in 1792 and had fairs held as cattle and grocer's markets. The attempt to accept the Jew Dessauer von Mühringen into his castle failed until an imperial mandate protected the acceptance in 1795. Later owners were the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringische Oberamtmann Mattes in Glatt and the Freiherr von Batz. Mattes gradually sold the buildings, rights and land to the community and private parties until only the castle and the meadows and gardens around it remained. Several buildings, including the so-called Old Castle , were demolished after 1838 by Colonel Freiherr von Batz. After plans failed to set up a chicory factory in the castle, he is said to have saved the archive from corresponding buyers and the castle building from further deterioration.

Since 1847, other sources speak of 1849, the castle has been privately owned by Baron von Podewils . He was chamberlain to the King of Württemberg in Stuttgart and only used the Leinstetter estate as a summer residence. Edwin von Podewils and his family came from Pomerania. He had inherited considerable estates in Mecklenburg, but sold them because he was based in the upper house in Stuttgart. He was raised to the baron status in 1854 . His son Albrecht von Podewils inherited the castle in 1885 and moved entirely to Leinstetten after he had given up his profession as a Prussian officer and instead devoted himself entirely to his passion for hunting. After his death in 1942 the property passed to his son Wilhelm von Podewils. He died in 1970 and the castle has belonged to its current owners Edwin and Bogislav von Podewils ever since.

In addition to renovating the castle building inside and out, the family also renovated the Lichtenfels castle ruins.

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  • Archive repertory of the archive of the barons von Podewils in Leinstetten (1974), S: 100ff. (Building description from 1837)
  • Landesarchiv Staatsarchiv Sigmaringen KI maps and plans / 1573 - approx. 2000 / Knightly free Pürsch in Swabia on the Neckar and Black Forest 1705 Leinstetten with Leinstetten Castle and Castle Permalink

literature

  • Friedrich August Köhler: Leinstetten with Bettenhausen and Lichtenfels (edited by Fritz Peter) . 2016.
  • Reinhold Rau: The Lords of Bubenhofen in Leinstetten . In: The Sülchgau . No. 16 , 1972, p. 9-20 .
  • Inventory. Black Forest District . In: The art and antiquity monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg. Stuttgart 1897, p. 356 .
  • Baden-Württemberg . In: Max Miller and Gerhard Taddey (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . 2nd Edition. tape 6 . Ludwigsburg 1965, p. 461 .
  • Volker Himmelein: Castles on the Upper Neckar, in: Between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb. The land on the upper Neckar. Ed .: Franz Quarthal. Sigmaringen 1984, ISBN 3-7995-4034-2 , p. 281 f .
  • Ch. Florian: Leinstetten, in: The district of Rottweil . In: Landesarchivdirektion in connection with the district of Rottweil (Hrsg.): Baden-Württemberg - The country in its circles . 2nd Edition. tape 1 . Jan Thorbecke, Ulm 2004, p. 363 .
  • Wolfgang Willig: Landadel palaces in Baden-Württemberg - A cultural-historical search for traces . Self-published by Willig, Balingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-9813887-0-1

Web links

Wikisource: Leinstetten  - Sources and full texts

(here: Description of the Oberamt Sulz B. Description of the location Leinstetten, Stuttgart 1863, pp. 205, 210f.)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Schwarzwälder Bote, Oberndorf Germany: Dornhan: The Renaissance influenced the architectural style 400 years ago - Black Forest Bote. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Local administration of Bettenhausen / Leinstetten (ed.): Bettenhausen-Leinstetten. City of Dornhan, Rottweil district. Local register for the 900-year documentary mention in the Codex Reichenbachensis . Freudenstadt 1985, p. 52, 54, 112, 114-117 .
  3. ↑ Herbert Natale: Leinstetten, in: Handbook of the historical sites of Germany. Baden-Württemberg . In: Max Miller and Gerhard Taddey (eds.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . 2nd Edition. tape 6 . Alfred Kröner, Ludwigsburg 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X , p. 461 .
  4. ↑ Inventory of the Black Forest District . In: The art and antiquity monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg . Paul Neff Verlag, Stuttgart 1897.
  5. ^ Description of the Oberamt Sulz. In: Wikisource. Wikimedia Foundation, accessed July 25, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Volker Himmelein: Castles on the Upper Neckar, in: Between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb . Ed .: Franz Quarthal. Jan Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1984, p. 281 .
  7. ^ Friedrich August Koehler: Leinstetten with Bettenhausen and Lichtenfels. A historical description from 1816 with additions up to 1837 . 2016, p. 9, 139 f .
  8. ^ Fritz Peter: local history - Leinstetten - a pearl in the Glatttal. In: www.Dornhan.de. Dornhan city administration (Mayor Markus Huber), March 11, 2018, accessed on July 13, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 31.1 ″  N , 8 ° 32 ′ 26.5 ″  E