Schönborn Palace (Geisenheim)

Schönborn Castle

Schönborn Palace (former Stockheimer Hof ) is a Renaissance aristocratic court from the mid-16th century in Geisenheim in the Rheingau .

Hermann von Stockheim, who came from a noble family from Geisenheim, had the farm built in 1550. Philipp Erwein von Schönborn , the brother of Archbishop Johann Philipp von Schönborn of Mainz , acquired the estate in 1652, which is still owned by the Counts of Schönborn -Wiesentheid.

The building is a typical example of the open mansion type that occurs on the Middle Rhine and Main and has been transferred from the late Gothic form to the Renaissance . The Stockheim family owned other farms of a similar type in Eltville am Rhein (today the seat of the Langwerth von Simmern winery ) and the Stockheimer Hof in Idstein .

The current state of the property is largely due to renovations from the 19th century: In 1875, the Frankfurt architect Heinrich Theodor Schmidt added two half-timbered upper floors in a historicizing Renaissance style to the stone structure .

There is a walled vineyard ( Clos ) around the property .

literature

• Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 135.
• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Hesse. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00380-0
• Angela Pfotenhauer, Elmar Lixenfeld: Rheingau . Ed .: German Foundation for Monument Protection Monuments Publications, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-86795-035-0

Web links

Commons : Schönborn Palace  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Three women take care of Schönborn Castle in Geisenheim , Wiesbadener Tageblatt from March 2, 2013

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 5.3 "  N , 7 ° 58 ′ 6.4"  E