Mönchzell Castle
The so-called Mönchzeller Schloss or Schlosshof is today's Fellmann estate. It was the residential, estate, administrative and court office of the Mönchzell local lords and was owned by the Palatinate Catholic Church Office in Heidelberg from 1867 to 1982, which sold it in 1982 to the then tenant Fellmann family.
Germ cell monk cell
The nucleus of Mönchzell lies at the former Mönchzeller Weiher, in today's Hofgut or Schloss between the Weihergarten and Friedhofstrasse. There, as in other cell locations, the church cell of a hermit may have existed, which is also indicated by the remains of the wall that were still present at the beginning of the 20th century (see the local history of Pastor Nieder 1900).
Construction of the castle
Georg von Zandt (1555 to 1598), who went down in Mönchzell's local history as "Reiter-Jörg" who abused the peasants, built the so-called castle from his own resources next to the old Burgstadel and achieved the conversion of the previous one with the Landgraves of Hesse Mannlehen's Mönchzell in a Herblehen. Both the Burgstadel and the main building constructed by Zandt are no longer there.
Model property Mönchzell
Under the barons of Uexküll, their bailiff, Johann Ludwig Spring, carried out exemplary agricultural reforms at Mönchzell Castle in the second half of the 18th century, which made the Mönchzell model estate a model for exemplary agriculture.
Privatization 1982
The Mönchzeller Hofgut was sold in 1867 on the occasion of the barons of Uexküllschen inheritance, who exercised the local rule at that time, to the Palatinate Catholic Church Administration , which is still Mönchzell's largest landowner today and acts as a landlord. The Mönchzell estate was purchased in 1982 by the Fellmann tenant family from the Kirchenschaffnei.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Ruby , 1337-1987
Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 9.2 " N , 8 ° 50 ′ 59.3" E