Reinhartshausen Castle

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Park side of the Hotel and Schloss Reinhartshausen
Castle park with a view of the old castle and the church tower of Sankt Markus
Princess Marianne
of Orange-Nassau
Johann Wilhelm von Reinhartshausen (1849–1861)

Reinhartshausen Castle is a former castle and winery in today's Hessian Rheingau , located on the western outskirts of Erbach , a district of Eltville on the Rhine , and only separated from the banks of the Rhine by federal highway 42 .

History of the castle

Headquarters of knighthoods (1189 to 1797)

Originally the ancestral seat of the Knights of Erbach was located on the site of today's castle from 1189 to 1275 . After that, the property belonged to the Knights of Allendorf for about four centuries .

Residence of noble families (1797 to 1987)

In 1797 the Rhenish noble family of Langwerth von Simmern acquired the knight's seat. In 1801, Clemens August von Westphalen from the Westphalian noble family von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg had the knight's seat demolished and the castle built in its current form.

Residence of Marianne von Oranien-Nassau (1855 to 1883)

In 1855 Marianne von Oranien-Nassau (1810-1883) acquired the castle from Clemens August von Westphalen . She was a princess of the Netherlands, who was married to Prince Albrecht of Prussia (1809–1872) from 1830 to 1849 . Here she settled with her partner Johannes van Rossum (1809–1873), a bourgeois Dutchman, and their son Johann Wilhelm von Reinhartshausen (1848–1861) (the surname was given to the boy by Duke Adolph von Nassau, based on Reinhartshausen Castle, where he grew up and which he was to inherit). Marianne's pregnancy had finally moved the Prussian and Dutch courts to agree to the divorce that both spouses had longed for (Marianne had left Albrecht in 1845 because he had entered into an extramarital relationship).

Marianne von Oranien-Nassau made Reinhartshausen Castle a cultural attraction on the Rhine . She owned a collection of probably over 600 paintings, graphics and sculptures, for which she added a museum, the gallery building, to Reinhartshausen Castle, which no longer exists today. A small part of Princess Marianne's collection is still in the palace and palace gardens today. The castle always accommodated numerous guests and offered young artists accommodation and space for their development. Due to her great social commitment to the needy, Marianne gained a lot of sympathy in the Rheingau.

In 1861 the deeply religious Protestant gave the Erbachers a piece of land and 60,000 guilders for the construction of the first Protestant church in the Rheingau, the Evangelical Johanneskirche, in memory of their son Johann Wilhelm von Reinhartshausen, who died of scarlet fever at the age of 12 . Johann Wilhelm was buried in the crypt behind the altar of the church, which was inaugurated in 1865. Johannes van Rossum died in 1873, and Marianne 10 years later. Both were buried in a common grave in the public cemetery in Erbach, which can still be visited today. Their desire to be buried at the side of their son in the crypt of St. John's Church was denied them. There had been arguments with the pastor, probably because of their improper way of life. In 1896 the Rheinaue in front of the property was renamed " Mariannenaue " in honor of Princess Marianne .

Owned by the Prussians (1883 to 1987)

Marianne bequeathed Reinhartshausen Castle to her son Prince Albrecht of Prussia (1837–1906). Until 1987 the castle remained in the ownership of those of Prussia. The last aristocratic sole ruler was Friedrich von Prussia , whose sons Friedrich Nikolaus, Andreas and Rupert continued to run it until 1987 as a community of heirs as the administration of Prince Friedrich of Prussia .

Use since 1991

Reinhartshausen Castle
Foyer in the castle courtyard

In 1987, Willi Leibbrand (1932–1993), an entrepreneur at Goldpfeil and Rewe , acquired Reinhartshausen Castle and had it completely restored as a hotel and winery until 1991. The hotel was expanded to include the west wing and the middle wing was extended. A new flood-proof wine cellar and a new cellar building were built, as well as an Aussiedlerhof at the end of Eberbacher Strasse in Erbach. The vineyards of Tillmanns' heirs were also acquired.

Joachim Wissler managed the Marcobrunn restaurant from 1991 to 1999 (two stars in the Michelin Guide from 1996 ). Alfred Friedrich cooked here from 1999 to 2004 .

On March 1, 2013, the winery was sold to the Lergenmüller family from Hainfeld (Palatinate) , who thus advanced to become Germany's largest private wine producer. Until the end of 2015, the hotel was managed by Kempinski Hotel & Resorts .

In 2016 the Hotel Schloss Reinhartshausen GmbH Co. KG took over the hotel. They planned an extension with 62 rooms and construction will probably start by 2017. The construction plans were postponed and the French company Châteauform leased the castle instead. It is no longer used as a hotel, but for corporate events such as conferences, meetings and seminars.

literature

  • Werner Kratz, Leopold Bausinger (revised), Erbach / Rheingau community (ed.): Erbach im Rheingau. Architectural monuments and history. 2nd edition, printed by Meier OHG, Rüdesheim am Rhein 1970
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 100.
  • Hartmut Heinemann: Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (1810-1883) and the Rheingau. A woman between tradition and emancipation. In: Rheingau Forum, Volume 11/2002, Issue 2, pp. 1–11.
  • "Nassau-Orange, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess Marianne of". Hessian biography. (As of March 21, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  • Annette Dopatka: Marianne of Prussia. Princess of the Netherlands. Life and work of a self-confident woman for whom Reinhartshausen Castle in the Rheingau became the center of life. Oberursel 2003.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinemann, Hartmut: "Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (1810-1883) and the Rheingau - A woman between tradition and emancipation. In: Rheingau-Forum 2/2002, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Heinemann, Hartmut: "Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (1810-1883) and the Rheingau - A woman between tradition and emancipation. In: Rheingau-Forum 2/2002, p. 13/14.
  3. ↑ Klipstein, HU: "From the memoirs of a Nassau pastor's wife. In: Nassovia 13, 1912, p. 56f.
  4. ↑ Heinemann, Hartmut: "Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (1810-1883) and the Rheingau - A woman between tradition and emancipation. In: Rheingau-Forum 2/2002, p. 10/11.
  5. ↑ faz.net: Successor to the posh restaurant "Marcobrunn" in Reichartshausen Palace
  6. ↑ wiesbadener-tagblatt.de: Erbacher five-star hotel Schloss Reinhartshausen wants to build a new building with 62 rooms and 15 apartments
  7. ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier: French group of companies enters the five-star Hotel Schloss Reinhartshausen in Erbach . Ed .: Rhein Main Presse. Eltville February 2, 2017 ( wiesbadener-kurier.de [accessed August 31, 2017]).

Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 8 ″  N , 8 ° 5 ′ 33 ″  E