Stetten Castle (Hohenlohe)

Stetten Castle
Stetten Castle
Alternative name (s):	Stetten Castle
Creation time :	1200
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	receive
Standing position :	Knight's castle
Construction:	Shield wall castle
Place:	Künzelsau - Stetten Castle
Geographical location	49 ° 16 '4.8 "  N , 9 ° 46' 33.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '4.8 "  N , 9 ° 46' 33.9"  E

Stetten Castle is the official place name of the family castle of the Barons of Stetten and the adjacent hamlet . Today they are part of the district town of Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district in Baden-Württemberg . The castle complex consists of a curtain wall castle and built in 1716 and Christian Freiherr von Stetten in the years 2018 and 2019, the renovated Baroque - closed . It is considered one of the best preserved castles from the Staufer period . The plant is still owned and inhabited by the builder family.

location

The castle is a hilltop castle in a westerly spur position above the valley of the Kocher , which runs northwards here , flanked by two deeply cut stream valleys that run towards the river from the east. Below is the village of Kocherstetten at the right foot of the river valley and on the bank .

description

Stetten Castle from Kochertal

The castle was never destroyed in the course of its existence and never significantly structurally changed. Construction was only done to keep the defense up to date. That is why it still shows the original shape of a high medieval knight's castle.

On the mountain side, a ditch separates the outer bailey from the mountain. It is fastened with two round towers and accessible from the outside through a half-timbered house. Another ditch behind it separates the inner castle from the outer bailey, which faces the ditch with a 13 meter high, 19 meter long and 2.5 meter thick Romanesque shield wall. A grown at the northern part keep exacerbated here the attachment, he has a rectangular plan and outside shows hump cuboid . The main castle is secured by four more towers, a kennel runs around them.

In the main castle there are several half-timbered buildings and a chapel.

history

The facility was built around 1200, presumably on top of a previous facility, which cannot be verified structurally. The first mention of the Knights of Stetten can be found in a document from the Komburg monastery from 1098, in which an Odelricus de Steten appears. A Zurich de Stetten mentioned in 1166 and a Sifridus de Stetten mentioned in the same year are likely to come from this family. At that time the Knights of Stetten were feudal people of those of Hohenlohe during the Staufer period .

The castle was built for the first time around 1400. In order to better protect the core castle against the increasingly common firearms , the neck ditch in front of the outer castle was dug. At the same time, a kennel wall with semicircular flanking towers was built. In the middle of the 15th century, the corner towers of the Zwingermauer were added in a further building project. In 1488 the Lords of Stetten got into a violent dispute with the Lords of Hohenlohe over Tierberg Castle ( Tierberger feud ). In the course of this feud the Hohenlohe besieged the castle Stetten and conquered the outer bailey. After tough negotiations and with the involvement of various mediators, the fighters were able to peacefully agree, which is why there was no major damage or even destruction of the castle.

The last new building was the baroque “outer house” in the outer bailey in 1716 , which looks like a castle; this is probably why the place name today came about. The last major structural change took place in 1870. At that time, the inner ditch was partially filled in and the gatehouse was rebuilt so that carriages could also drive in afterwards .

Since January 1, 1972, Stetten Castle has belonged to the district town of Künzelsau.

The castle is owned by the Baron-Wolfgang-Stetten-Stiftung and the owner of the baroque palace at Schloss Stetten is Christian Freiherr von Stetten, who acquired it from the community of heirs in 2015. The former member of the Bundestag Wolfgang von Stetten , CEO of Stetten Holding AG, has been building retirement homes in Stetten Castle, Künzelsau and Bad Mergentheim since 1983. He currently employs around 190 people there. In addition to the family residence of the owners, Stetten Castle houses a retirement home in around 20 different houses in which over 250 people live.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Breathe new life into a gem in Stetten Castle - STIMME.de. Retrieved March 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Stetten Castle on pro-region.de
3. ↑ Württemberger Urkundenbuch I, p. 204
4. ↑ History of the castle on pro-region.de (PDF; 14 kB)
5. ↑ Burg Stetten on burgen-web  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 289 kB) .de  
6. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 451 .
7. ^ Website of Stetten Castle