Schwörstadt Castle

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Schwörstadt Castle seen from the Rhine

Schwörstadt Castle is a manor house built in 1834/35 in Schwörstadt in the district of Lörrach .

Schwörstadt Castle at sunrise

history

prehistory

Ulrich I von Wieladingen built a castle in Schwörstadt between 1280 and 1300, the first known documentary mention of which dates from 1316. In 1316 the castle was sold to the von Stein family .

In the middle of the 14th century, the male line of the von Stein family died out, and their property passed to the von Schönau family .

The fire of the old castle

Schwörstadt Castle before the fire in 1797 (oil painting by Hermann Dischler )

After Emperor Joseph II. In 1782 serfdom was abolished in the Austrian countries, this has been by farmers in some villages the reign Schwörstadt ( Niederschwörstadt , Öflingen , Wallbach as repealing justified from serfdom duties () body case ) and Fronen interpreted. From 1782 to 1798 there were repeated refusals and deputations to Vienna. Baron Franz Anton von Schönau and the Upper Austrian Chamber Administration in Rheinfelden attempted to break the resistance in part with military punitive actions, while the higher-level administrations in Freiburg and Vienna seemed rather cautious. When the barons of Schönau's castle burned down on August 3, 1797, the local authorities suspected arson. It was also assumed that the villagers did not hurry to put out the fire and instead showed malicious glee. As early as 1792 the baron had been threatened that the castle and mill would be set on fire if he continued to insist on the frones. According to another account, the castle burned down due to the carelessness of a palace gardener.

New building

After the castle was destroyed, it was not rebuilt and it was not until 1834 that the construction of a Weinbrenner-style mansion began in its place .

literature

  • Franz Xaver Kraus (ed.): The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 3: Waldshut district. Freiburg i. B. 1892, p. 43 online at Heidelberg University Library
  • Wolfgang Klein: Schwörstadt, an old community on the Upper Rhine. In: Das Markgräflerland, Volume 2/1997, p. 7. Digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
  • Friedrich Wolfgang Klein: The story of Schwörstadt and Dossenbach , published by the community of Schwörstadt, Schopfheim 1993.
  • Andre Gutmann: Under the coat of arms of Fidel. The Lords of Wieladingen and the Lords of Stein between ministerialism and aristocratic rule (= research on the history of the Upper Rhine region. Vol. 55). With the collaboration of Christopher Schmidberger, Freiburg i. Br./München 2011, pp. 170–173 and 325–326 ( full text as PDF ).
  • Albrecht Schlageter : The disobedient subjects of front Austria. In: Das Markgräflerland, Heft 1/2, 1977, pp. 4-19 (with a pen drawing of the old castle) digital copy of the Freiburg University Library
  • Werner Meyer : Castles from A to Z - Burgenlexikon der Regio . Published by the Castle Friends of both Basels on the occasion of their 50th anniversary. Klingental printing works, Basel 1981, p. 33.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gutmann, Under the coat of arms of Fidel , p. 325
  2. ↑ Klaus Schubring : The genealogical development of the family In: Wernher von Schönau and Katharina Frings (ed.): Adel an Ober- and Hochrhein- Contributions to the history of the barons of Schönau. Freiburg im Breisgau 2001, p. 83
  3. ↑ s. Schlageter pp. 14–15
  4. ↑ s. Schlageter p. 12
  5. ↑ s. Wolfgang Klein: Schwörstadt, an old community on the Upper Rhine. In: Das Markgräflerland, Volume 2/1997, p. 7

Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ′ 34 ″  N , 7 ° 52 ′ 49 ″  E