Neuweier Castle

Neuweier Castle
Neuweier Castle
Creation time :	12th Century
Castle type :	Moated castle
Conservation status:	receive
Standing position :	Knight
Place:	Neuweier
Geographical location	48 ° 43 '27 "  N , 8 ° 10' 39"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '27 "  N , 8 ° 10' 39"  E
Height:	182  m above sea level NN

The Neuweier Castle is a 12th-century moated castle built property. It is located at the entrance to the Neuweier district of Baden-Baden at the foot of the Mauerberg.

history

The beginnings of the manor house, which presumably rises on Roman grounds, go back to the 12th century. At that time, the Knights of Bach ruled Neuweier Castle for 330 years. They built it as a Gothic water and defensive deep castle.
In 1525 the castle was severely damaged in the German Peasants' War . Philip IV of Dalberg rebuilt the castle in the Renaissance style in 1548 after the last knight of Bach bequeathed the castle to the Cronberg - Dalberg family . When the Dahlbergs died out in 1615, the spouses of their last daughters, Freiherr Eltz and Freiherr Knebel von Katzenelnbogen , inherited the castle, which later became part of the Knebel family. The new residents brought the Riesling vine from Franconia to Neuweier, which was grown on the terraces of the Mauerberg. Neuweier also received the right to fill Bocksbeutel .

In the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689 and other wars in the 17th and 18th centuries, the castle was often severely damaged. After the death of Eberhard von Katzenelnbogen in 1816, who was the last noble lord of the castle, the castle changed hands several times until the August Rössler family bought the property for 115 years in 1869. After the family heirs had no interest in using the castle in 1984, there was no new owner for nine years. In 1993 Gisela and Helmut Joos renovated and modernized the castle. Neuweier Castle is now owned by the Schätzle family.

Todays use

Neuweier Castle

The building is one of the few remaining low castles in Baden. The winemaker Robert Schätzle has been the owner of the Robert Schätzle winery since 2012, who was able to buy the castle from a former bankruptcy estate . Today the winery grows 84% Riesling and 12% Pinot Noir in the Schloss - and Mauerberg sites on an area of ​​14 hectares . The annual production amounts to a total of 80,000 bottles with a yield of 50 hectoliters per hectare.

See also

• List of castles and palaces in Baden-Württemberg

Web links

• The upper and lower Neuweier Castle
• Karl Reinfried: The lower castle in Neuweier, Buhl office. In addition to a regesta appendix about the former upper castle there . In: The Ortenau, Journal of the Historical Society for Mittelbaden , No. 3 (1912), pp 1-23, Digitalisat of UB Freiburg .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jakob Strobel y Serra: Weingut Robert Schätzle - Life is not a laboratory. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 31, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .