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View of the village of Mauren with castle (1681)

Castle Mauren is the ruin of a castle in Mauren, a hamlet of Ehningen in the Boeblingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

Mauren Castle on May 6, 1928, before it was destroyed during World War II

In the Middle Ages, the castle was replaced by a moated castle , which was owned by Burckhardt von Bondorf in 1352, probably as a fiefdom of the Count Palatine of Tübingen . However, the Count Palatine of Tübingen sold their feudal rights to the Counts of Württemberg in the 14th century. In 1395 the castle came into the possession of the Schleglerbund and was razed by Count Eberhard the Mild that year . In 1459 the Lords of Dachenhausen were enfeoffed with Moors, who had the old moated castle demolished in 1615. Heinrich Schickhardt was commissioned with the planning of a country palace, but Eberhard Wolf von Dachhausen sold the new building, which had not yet been completed, to the Schertlin von Burtenbach in 1616 for 30,000 guilders . Johann Friedrich Schertlin von Burtenbach had the building completed by Schickhardt and probably also laid out the first form of the palace garden. After the Schertlin von Burtenbach in 1766 could no longer provide male heirs, Mauren was sold in 1782 to the Prussian privy councilor Johann Friedrich Erasmus Freiherr von Klopfer. After several changes of ownership at the end of the 18th century, the place and the castle finally came to the Amsterdam banker von König in 1813 and in 1823 to his nephew and royal Württemberg chamberlain Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von König. In 1943 the castle was almost completely destroyed by a bomb attack, only the ground floor and the vaulted cellar as well as parts of the castle garden laid out in the 19th century remained.

In 2005, two modern bungalows were built over the remains of the listed wall without touching the historical building fabric.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Description of the Oberamt Böblingen. Issued by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau; Unchanged reprint of the edition from 1850, Bissinger, Magstadt 1961, p. 150.
  2. ↑ a b c Julius Fekete: Art and cultural monuments in the district of Böblingen. Theiss, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-1969-9 , p. 116.
  3. ↑ Dagmar Zimdars: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Baden-Württemberg I. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 532.
  4. ↑ Birgit Ochs: Modern, but not fashionable. In: faz.net. August 23, 2010, accessed December 11, 2014 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 43.7 ″  E