Reichartshausen Castle

European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, view from the banks of the Rhine to the Kiep-Center and the castle

Reichartshausen Castle from the Kiep Center

Reichartshausen Castle is located in Oestrich-Winkel in the Rheingau ( Hesse ) and has been home to the EBS Business School of the EBS University of Economics and Law since 1980 .

Geographical location

Description of the history of Reichartshausen at the gate to the castle park

Burmese tea house in the castle park

Castle Reichartshausen is surrounded by vineyards between Oestrich and Hattenheim ( "Rheingaustraße" L 3320) near the at the old east-west direction through the Rheingau road leading bank of the Rhine , from this only through the bypass -developed national road 42 separately.

history

Reichartshausen with the associated Pfaffenberg vineyard had been a wine farm for centuries and the largest transshipment and storage area for wine from the nearby Eberbach monastery for centuries . At the courtyard was the port from which the annual trip to the Cologne city courtyard of the monastery was made. The Cologne trip was the central event in the monastery's financial year. After the devastation of the Thirty Years' War, Abbot Hermann Hungrighausen had the U-shaped complex built in the shape known today in place of the courtyard in the years 1737 to 1740 in order to have a second residence

After the abolition of the monastery in 1803 as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the farm initially became the property of the House of Nassau-Usingen . In 1804, Friederike von Anhalt-Köthen, daughter of the Duke of Nassau , had the courtyard redesigned in the classicist style by Wiesbaden city planner Carl Florian Goetz . Friederike's mother, Duchess Louise von Waldeck, received Reichartshausen as a present from her husband in 1807. After her death in 1817 , Erwein Graf von Schönborn acquired the property, now known as the castle , including the vineyard. He had the buildings expanded and a landscape park created up to the Rhine. In 1873 the buildings were sold to Countess Louise von Benckendorff, born Croÿ , the court lady of Mariannes of Prussia , while the Pfaffenberg is still owned by the Schönborn Castle estate to this day . From 1889, the procurator August Wilhelmj converted the farm into a winery according to the latest technical knowledge and made it the center of his world-famous wine shop. He had the inner courtyard built over as a cellar with a terrace and open staircase, redesigned the park and had the art ruin, which hid a water tower inside, erect its own power station and the farm buildings.

After a further change of ownership, Fritz Werner Werkzeugmaschinen , which was the largest employer in the Rheingau with the machine factory in nearby Geisenheim, was the owner from 1970 to 1980 and restored the property for representative purposes. Essentially, the forms from 1740 were restored. During this time in 1971 the building known as the Burmese Tea House was erected . It was a gift from the Burmese government to the company. It is a copy of the entrance hall of the royal palace of Mandalay , which was made for the world exhibition in Montreal in 1967 , and at that time became the property of MAN Ferrostaal Industrieanlagen GmbH.

With the exception of the tea house, for which a separate plot of land had been created, EBS took over the property and expanded the ensemble of buildings in 2000 to include the Walter-Leisler-Kiep Center .

• Picture gallery
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  View from the southeast from the banks of the Rhine

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  Castle courtyard with north wing and part of the west wing

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  Palace courtyard and south wing

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  Castle courtyard

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  Outbuildings on the northern street front with artificial castle ruins

literature

• Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 283f.
• Paul Claus: Klosterhof Schloss Reichartshausen . In: Rheingauer Zehnt- und Klösterhöfe and the wine . Society for Rheingauer Weinkultur mbH, Oestrich-Winkel 2001
• Dagmar Söder: Rheingau-Taunus District I.1 Altkreis Rheingau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Theiss-Verlag , Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-8062-2987-5

Web links

Commons : Schloss Reichartshausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Reichartshausen Castle through the Ages Photo gallery on the homepage of the European Business School
• Outline of the situation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marcus Kreikebaum: Reichartshausen Palace through the ages , p. 38
2. ↑ The history of Reichartshausen Palace

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 43 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 1 ″  E