Rohrbach Castle (Heidelberg)

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Rohrbacher Schlößchen August 2006
Rohrbacher Schlößchen December 2015

The Rohrbach Castle , known locally as the Rohrbacher castle or Old castle called, situated in the Heidelberg district of Rohrbach . It is located there in a park (which is part of the former castle park) on the grounds of the Thoraxklinik Heidelberg on today's Parkstrasse.

The Rohrbacher Schlösschen is a rectangular, two-storey building of classicism with a three-axis central projection , which is decorated with a frieze in the upper area.

The building was built around 1770 by the later and last Duke Karl II. August von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1746–1795, Duke 1775–1793) as a hunting lodge with a landscape park. The planner of the original palace park can no longer be identified; after the palace changed hands in Baden, the park was redesigned according to the plans of the garden architect Friedrich Ludwig Sckell . In 1803 the castle passed into the possession of the Margravine Amalie von Baden , who had it restored to the state that is still visible today through modifications based on plans by Friedrich Weinbrenner .

From 1920 the castle was used as a tuberculosis hospital after it had already served as a military hospital during the First World War. The hospital eventually became the property of the LVA Baden and developed into a large specialist clinic for thoracic surgery and tuberculosis.

Today the building is no longer used for immediate hospital operations, but for administrative and training purposes. The exterior of the palace, which is located on the public clinic premises, can be viewed without any problems, and the hall, which was completely restored in 2005, can be rented for events by the clinic administration.

literature

  • Werner Ebert: The Rohrbacher Schlösschen , ed. from Thoraxklinik-Heidelberg gGmbH
  • Karl Heinz Frauenfeld: Chronicle of Rohrbach 1200 years . Annex to the Ruperto-Carola , magazine of the Association of Friends of the Student Union of Heidelberg University, XVII. Volume 38, 1965.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 42 "  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 28"  E