Treschklingen Castle

The remains of the estate in Treschklingen: the castle on the right, an outbuilding on the left

The castle in Treschklingen , a district of Bad Rappenau in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg , was built in 1802 as an official building on the site of an older manor house. The barons of Gemmingen sat on the castle estate for a while, and for many years it was managed by Mieren . From 1896 to 1952 it was leased to the sugar factory in Waghäusel and Südzucker .

history

Previous buildings

In Treschklingen there were already two mansions in the late Middle Ages . In 1470 an old and a new castle are mentioned. Feudal descriptions up to 1780 always named two manors as part of the feudal feud. In 1588 Reinhard von Gemmingen (1532–1598) had a “completely new stone dwelling” built in place of the old castle. This stone mansion was destroyed by French troops in the Palatinate War of Succession in 1693 , the ruins remained until 1744, after which the remains of the building were removed.

After the farm buildings of the Treschklinger Gutshof had been demolished in 1990 and building land was developed here, in 1993 the area of ​​the current building Im Gutshof revealed 13 remains of a stone wall and an oak beam grating, which are the remains of the "stone dwelling" built by Reinhard in 1588 looks at. According to the finds, the “stone dwelling” must have been a moated castle . There are no definite findings on the location of the second castle.

The barons of Gemmingen rarely resided in Treschklingen in modern times, but mostly let Meier manage the estate ; a representative mansion on site was therefore not necessary. In 1785 Christoph Klenk was named Meier.

The castle from 1802

In 1806 this new office building was built as a replacement for the office building used as a manor house

Sigmund von Gemmingen (1724–1806) built today's castle in 1802 as an office building. He was succeeded by Sigmund Johann Nepomuk von Gemmingen (1777–1843), who managed the goods in Treschklingen from 1803 to 1813 himself, moved into the office building as his residence and in 1806 had a new office building built northeast of the building.

The castle is a two-story plastered building. In 1832 a stairwell with two arched windows in a classicist style was added to the rear . In the 19th century, the palace occupied the southwest corner of the almost right-angled building stock of the Treschklinger Gutshof. Along today's street, in the manor and between the castle and the Treschklingen church , there were large farm buildings , and there were several residential buildings for employees.

In 1824 the estate comprised a total of 259 acres of fields, 37 acres of meadows and a few vineyards. In the late 19th century, the dairy estate comprised a total of 402 acres of agricultural land.

Sigmund Reinhard von Gemmingen (1819–1883) promoted the cultivation of sugar beet as early as 1851 and negotiated with the sugar factory in Waghäusel and the landlords and farmers of the surrounding towns about the delivery of 100,000 quintals of sugar beet annually, which should move the sugar factory, a drying house in in the area around Rappenau . The sugar factory built ten dry houses in other places, which were used up until the 1870s, and delivering them from Treschklingen was not profitable, so that the large-scale sugar beet plans failed for the time being. However, numerous farmers had been encouraged by the landlord to grow beets.

In the summer of 1868, the farm's dairy buildings were destroyed by arson and then rebuilt.

Sigmund Reinhard von Gemmingen died in 1883 without a male heir, so that his Treschklingen property fell to his brother Adolph von Gemmingen (1822–1902). He lived in Fränkisch-Crumbach , which is why he again leased the castle property to Jacob Schmutz from 1877 to 1889. Numerous residents of Treschklingens were employed as day laborers in the estate or hired themselves out as harvest workers during the harvest season.

The Waghäusel sugar factory initially obtained the beets from a large number of smallholders, and from 1862 onwards they began leasing larger farm estates. In 1896 the sugar factory (later Südzucker ) also leased the Treschklinger Hofgut with an area of ​​166 hectares, 40 to 50 hectares of which it cultivated sugar beet.

After the lease with Südzucker expired in 1952, Gustav Freiherr von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1925–2005) managed the estate. From 1954 to 1970 he was mayor of Treschklingen and from 1967 to 1969 a member of the German Bundestag , around 1970 he worked as a development aid worker in Africa for five years. During this time his second wife Gudrun geb. Heinzelmann owned the estate, which also ran a master weaver workshop there until 1986. Later Gustav von Gemmingen leased the agriculture again for health reasons, sold parts of the castle property and donated smaller parts to the Treschklingen community for the construction of the school house, the construction of a sports field and for the cemetery expansion.

In 1990 the manor's farm buildings were demolished. The north-western area of ​​the former manor was built over with residential houses from 1993. The actual castle building, with the exception of an outbuilding and the surrounding garden, has not been preserved from the estate. The crypt chapel of the Barons of Gemmingen , built in 1839, stands on the Treschklingen cemetery near the castle .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Margret and Helmut Niklaus: Summer 1868 - It burns in Treschklingen . In: Bad Rappenauer Heimatbote 13 , Bad Rappenau 2002, pp. 58–61.

literature

• Julius Fekete: Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn . 2nd Edition. Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1662-2
• Anne and Helmut Schüßler: Treschklingen - From the knightly Kraichgaudorf to the district of Bad Rappenau. City of Bad Rappenau, Bad Rappenau 2004, ISBN 3-936866-02-3

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '30.9 "  N , 9 ° 3' 24.2"  E