Lindach Castle

Lindach Castle with moat, east view

The Lindach Castle is a castle in Schwäbisch Gmünder area Lindach whose oldest parts of Staufer originate time. The forerunner, Lindach Castle, was protected in the north and west by the slope and in the south and east by a moat .

history

For a long time it was assumed that the forerunners of Lindach Castle came from Roman times, but this has now been refuted. It is now assumed that the square tower of Lindach Castle on which the castle is built is a building from the time of Duke Friedrich II of Swabia .

The gate was broken through in 1580, the round tower was built in 1583 . The Renaissance construction on the Staufer humpback square tower and the long building in the north, the stair tower , were added in 1624. The castle was surrounded by various farm buildings, all of which were demolished except for the so-called doctor's house . When Württemberg came to power in 1751, next to the castle building there were a horse stable, servants' quarters, a well house, a brewery, a large barn, a stone chicken coop, a wash house, a gatehouse and a sheepfold on the grounds of the castle. From 1752 the owner Johann Georg Blezinger ran an inn at the castle, later the Rettenmeyer brewery. From 1958/59 the castle was converted into a private clinic as a sanatorium . Medical use was maintained until 2008. Until 2013, Lindach Castle was used for worship by the Seventh-day Adventist Reformation Movement.

Ownership

Inner courtyard, main building from the south

Tibert von Lindach , resident on Lindach, was royal chamberlain under King Konrad III and became the progenitor of the Lords of Weinsberg . The Diemar von Lindach are also known, who bought the facility from the Limpurg taverns in 1515 . Knight Hans Diemar von Lindach feuded the imperial city of Schwäbisch Gmünd in 1543/44. In 1577 Lindach came to Lorch Monastery and thus to Württemberg . Erasmus von Laymingen , Obervogt zu Stuttgart , later privy councilor and land steward, received Lindach as a fief from Duke Ludwig von Württemberg in 1579. The Laymingen stayed on Lindach for exactly 100 years. From 1699 the court marshal Johann Friedrich von Staffhorst , from 1744 the Württemberg state minister Heinrich Reinhard Freiherr Roeder von Schwende and then from 1751 Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg owned Lindach. In 1752, Johann Georg Blezinger , the smelter in Königsbronn, bought the property. In 1842 Count Joseph Ignaz von Beroldingen took over the castle. In the following years, the owners changed quickly, such as the families von Larisch , von Buttler and the Stuttgart brewery Rettenmeyer . In 1911 the castle was auctioned by Lieutenant Colonel Otto von Haldenwang ; after he fell in World War I in 1916 , the castle went to the consul Ferdinand Freiherr von Scholley . In 1929 the people of Württemberg became lords of the castle again. Albrecht Eugen Herzog von Württemberg and his wife Nadejda von Bulgaria lived at Lindach Castle. In 1958 the castle passed to an Abele family of doctors. In March 2013, the property, which had previously been the German headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventists, was up for sale again. Lindach Castle has been privately owned again since 2014.

literature

• Till Abele: Lindach Castle - then and now , in: Einhorn-Jahrbuch 1980, Einhornverlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1980, ISBN 3-921703-30-1 , pp. 198–203.
• Richard Strobel: “ The art monuments of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd, Volume IV: Churches and secular buildings outside the old town. Ortsteile ”, German Art Publishing House and State Monuments Office Baden-Württemberg, Munich and Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-06381-1 .

Web links

Commons : Lindach Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article for sale on remszeitung.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 48.2 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 34"  E