Schöckingen Castle

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West view of the New Palace : the main building on the right, the gatehouse on the left

The Castle Schöckingen is a palace complex in Ditzinger district Schöckingen in Baden-Württemberg district of Ludwigsburg, about 20 kilometers northwest of Stuttgart .

Consisting of buildings from the 15th to 18th centuries, which were built by the Barons von Gaisberg- Schöckingen, the facility is now privately owned and can usually not be visited. As an event location and congress center, however, it is occasionally open to the public. The castle is a cultural monument according to § 28 DSchG BW .

description

Gatehouse of the castle
Alliance coat of arms on the main building

The castle-like palace complex is located in the historic center of Schöckingen and takes up a plot of land of around 20,000 m². It consists of the so-called New Castle , a multi-part building ensemble on the northeast side of Schöckinger Schlossstrasse and a nearby building called the Rear Castle , which stands on the southwest side of Schillerstrasse. The New Palace is adjoined to the north and east by an extensive landscape park with small ponds and a water fountain.

New lock

The building ensemble encloses a polygonal inner courtyard and is partly still surrounded by moats . Access to the courtyard is provided by the three-storey gatehouse with upper floors made of half-timbered houses , which are closed off by a half- hipped roof. Dating from the 15th century, it is one of the oldest structures in the complex. Its pointed arched gateway is from the late Gothic period and is dated to 1430. Stone tablets attached to the building show the coats of arms of Hans von Nippenburg , known as Schlegel, and his wife Margarete von Heimerdingen .

The main building of the castle with buildings from the 16th century adjoins the gate to the southwest. The three-storey half-timbered building rises on a rectangular floor plan and is plastered white . Its tiled , red hip roof is crowned by two weather vanes . At the north-western corner the house has a small five-sided extension with a flat hood on a high base. The alliance coat of arms of Friedrich von Gaisberg-Schöckingen and his wife Ottilie von und zu der Tann - Rathsamhausen can be found on the base .

The eastern side of the inner courtyard is bordered by former farm buildings. The elongated east building has two remarkable gables . The northeastern of them is with tracery - reliefs decorated, while the southwestern tail gable dating back to the Renaissance pilasters has as decorative elements. To the north-west of the building is the so-called rear wine press from 1763.

The Maierhaus , a free-standing, plastered half-timbered building with two storeys, is located between the main house and the farm buildings.

Rear lock

Heraldic plaque above the portal of the rear castle

The rear castle is also called the Great House or Gaisberg Building . The brick ground floor rises on a rectangular floor plan, followed by two yellow-plastered half-timbered floors. A high, tiled, pitched roof forms the top . The south-eastern facade has an elaborately crafted round arch portal with the coat of arms of Friedrich Albrechts von Gaisberg. It shows his initials F. A. V. G and the year 1754, the year the building was built. Inside the building, old stucco ceilings have been preserved.

history

Schöckingen Castle, built as a Niederungsburg , was first mentioned in a document in the 13th century. In the Middle Ages , the castle and the surrounding town belonged to the domain of the Lords of Nippenburg , who had today's main house built until 1566. For a long time, the people of Nippenburg refused to introduce the Reformation in Schöckingen , which is why the castle was destroyed by Protestant troops during the Thirty Years' War . The rear castle was destroyed once in 1431. After the extinction of the Nippenburg (1646) the village of Schöckingen was drawn to the Kammergut. After the restoration, the castle was left in 1651 to the widow of Duke Julius Friedrich , Anna Sabina of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg († 1659). On April 11, 1660, the palace complex was given to the barons of Gaisberg-Schöckingen as a Württemberg fief .

In 1740 they had the main house, which was partially destroyed by a lightning strike, rebuilt and in 1754 the rear castle was built. At the end of the 18th and 19th centuries, further changes were made to the main house, while the Maierhaus was built around 1800.

Since the late 1970s, the gatehouse, the adjoining residential nave, the north and west wings and the palace gardens have been owned by the architect Manfred Osterwald , who had them rebuilt and renovated in the 1980s according to his plans in the historical style .

Todays use

In addition to private use as a residence, the buildings also serve as an event location and congress center. In addition, the New Palace is the seat of the “Foundation for International Cultural Dialogue” co-founded by Osterwald, which is also supported by the former Spanish King Juan Carlos . He visited Schöckingen Castle in February 2006.

literature

  • Jörg Weikert: Castles and palaces in the Ludwigsburg district . Ungeheuer & Ulmer, Ludwigsburg 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b burgeninventar.de ( Memento from October 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Friedrich Freiherr von Gaisberg-Schöckingen: Schöckingen . [Keltenhof], Ditzingen-Schöckingen 1983, p. 75.
  3. ^ Friedrich Cast: Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Kingdom of Württemberg. Volume 1: From South German noble heroes. JA Gärtner, Stuttgart 1839, p. 200 ( Google eBook ).
  4. ↑ Manfred Osterwald's biography on whoswho.de , accessed on April 19, 2014.

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 46.3 "  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 47.4"  E