Reimlingen Castle
Reimlingen Castle is a three-story baroque building with a high hipped roof and three round towers on the eastern, western and southern sides. It is located in the municipality of Reimlingen in the Donau-Ries district and is surrounded by a small park and a castle wall.
history
The castle is closely associated with the Teutonic Order , but also with the princely house of Oettingen-Wallerstein . As early as 1541, Emperor Charles V issued the building permit for the castle. Ultimately, however, it was only built from 1593 to 1595 under the Teutonic Order of the Volprecht von Schwalbach as the seat of the Reimlingen-Nördlingen office. The still existing coat of arms of the locksmith on the southern round tower (stair tower) indicates the year of its completion. In 1634 it was the seat and headquarters of the imperial troops at the battle of Nördlingen am Albuch.
In the years 1733 to 1736, the Landkomtur Karl Heinrich Freiherr von Homstein arranged for the building to be increased by one floor. After secularization , the castle passed to the Kingdom of Bavaria. Soon afterwards, the wealthy Wallerstein wine merchant and Princely Councilor Franz-Joseph Abendantz acquired the area, which the latter sold to Prince Ludwig zu Oettingen-Wallerstein in 1824 . During the entire time of his marriage, which did not comply with the house law of the House of Oettingen-Wallerstein, the prince lived with the bourgeois French emigrant Maria Crescenzia Bourgin in the Reimlinger Schloss. In 1858 - five years after the death of his wife - the prince had sold it again. Over 10 other owners followed, until the castle and its outbuildings passed into the possession of the congregation of the Mariannhill Missionaries from Würzburg in 1920, who opened a seminary in the neighboring building. From 1985 to 1996 the diocese of Augsburg was the owner of the castle. In 1997 the Reimlingen community bought the area and carried out fundamental interior and exterior renovations. The alliance coat of arms of Commander Lutz von Werdenfels from 1897 has been preserved on the castle portal.
Today, the Friends of Reimlingen Castle e. V. for the preservation and use (readings, concerts, exhibitions etc.) of the listed former Deutsch-Ordensschloss. Parts of the building are used as the town hall of the municipality of Reimlingen.
literature
- Georg Lill (Ed.), Karl Gröber: Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern, VII (Swabia), 1: District Office Nördlingen . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1938, pp. 432-433. (Reprint: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-486-50514-9 ). [not evaluated]
- Barbara Würmseher: Music, parties and a little ghost. A lot is possible at Reimlinegn Castle. In: Donauzeitung / No. 208 (September 8, 2016), p. 31
Web links
Castles: Amerdingen Castle | Belzheim Castle | Donaumünster Castle | Fünfstetten Castle | Gansheim Castle | Genderkingen Castle | Old Hemerten Castle | Hemerten New Castle | Hirschbrunn Palace | Hochaltingen Castle | Hohenaltheim Palace | Kleinerdlingen Castle | Leitheim Palace | Lierheim Palace | Monheim Castle | Moritzschlösschen | Oberndorf Castle | Otting Castle | Oettingen Castle | Old Castle Rain | Reimlingen Castle | Schweinspoint Castle | Tagmersheim Castle | Tapfheim Castle | Old Castle Wallerstein | Wallerstein Castle
Castles and ruins: Alerheim castle ruins | Gosheim Castle (exited) | Graisbach Castle | Harburg Castle | Castle high-rise | Lechsgemünd Castle (exited) | Mangoldstein Castle (exited) | Niederhaus Castle | Rauhaus Castle (exited) | Steinhart Castle (Old Castle) | Tagmersheim moated castle (dismissed) | Thurneck Castle (exited) | Wellwart Castle (Wöllwarth) (removed)
Tower hill castles (all gone): Dornstadt castle stables
Castle stables (lost, unknown castles): Burgstall Bollstadt | Hagburg | Burgstall Maihingen | Burgstall Mühlberg | Burgstall Steinhart (Judenbuck) | Turenberc | Burgstall Weiherberg
Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 4.2 ″ N , 10 ° 30 ′ 47.3 ″ E