Trippstadt Castle

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Trippstadt Castle
Trippstadt Castle

Trippstadt Castle

Data
place Trippstadt
architect Sigmund Jacob Haeckher
Client Franz Karl Joseph von Hacke
Builder Amöna Marie Charlotte Juliane Sturmfeder from Oppenweiler
Architectural style Late baroque
Construction year 1766-1767

The trippstadt house is a baroque castle from the 18th century in the eponymous Rhineland-Palatinate community Trippstadt in the district of Kaiserslautern . It is classified as a cultural monument.

Geographical location

The castle is located in the southern part of the municipality on the main road at a good 400  m above sea level. NHN . The front is directed to the southeast. Behind the building is the 4-hectare castle garden, which slopes slightly towards the Kaltenborn stream .

building

Front
Back (garden side)

The building consists of a single wing and is 48 m long, 19 m wide and 18 m high. It has a basement and two floors. The attic above is supplied with daylight towards the street via dormers .

The gable above the front entrance shows a relief with the year 1766 and the names or the alliance coat of arms of the builder couple Franz Karl Joseph von Hacke (son of Ludwig Anton von Hacke ) and Amöna Marie Charlotte Juliane Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler , who was a daughter of the Dirmstein local nobleman Marsilius Franz Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler was.

In 1767 an underground water supply system was built at the Quellbachhübel northeast of the residential development . It consisted of a well chamber , in which the water from various sources was collected, as well as three accessible tunnels , in which the water was led with a slight gradient down to the castle well and to two other wells in the residential area. The latter two, the Obere Brunnen and the Hirschbrunnen , were destroyed after 1965, the 300 m long tunnel to the castle fountain is now called the Brunnenstollen and is one of the community's cultural monuments.

history

Heraldic gable (hoe / storm spring) on ​​the front
Heraldic gable on the garden side

The owner of the facility was Franz Karl Freiherr von Hacke with his wife Amönia Freiin von Sturmfeder. He was the electoral Palatinate colonel hunter over the 55 km² dominion of Wilenstein . The castle was completed in 1767 by the architect Sigmund Jacob Haeckher under the name Maison de la Campagne . The associated French garden was planned and implemented by the landscape architect Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell around 1780 , as was its natural extension, the scenic Karlstal valley, through which the Moosalb flows .

The physicist Johann Jakob Hemmer from Mannheim installed the first lightning rod in the Palatinate on April 17, 1776 .

French revolutionary troops partially destroyed the castle on July 13, 1794, so that only the basement was habitable. The chateau came into Alsatian ownership in 1803 . The entire Dominalgut Trippstadt with the castle was bought in 1833 by Reichsrat Ludwig von Gienanth .

Baron von Gienanth sold the castle to the Bavarian state in 1865 . He set up a state forestry office there in 1885 and rebuilt the ruinous part of the castle in 1888. A forestry school was opened in the castle. During the First World War , the school had to close in 1915. Only after the Second World War did it reopen in 1946 as a forest school for the Palatinate .

The palace was the seat of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Forestry School from 1960 to 1980. The municipality of Trippstadt took over the care of the castle garden in 1985 and converted it into a recreation park. In 1987 the castle became the seat of the Forest Research Institute of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate .

literature

  • Günter Stein: Castles and palaces in the Palatinate . Frankfurt / Main 1976 (new edition Droemer Knaur, Munich 1988).

Web links

Commons : Trippstadter Schloss  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Helmut Celim: Trippstadt fountain tunnel or water tunnel? 2006. Book excerpt as PDF; 6.37 MB ( memento from June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. a b c d Information board at the castle.
  3. memorial stone. www.academia-domitor.de, accessed on July 16, 2017 (website on Johann Jakob Hemmer).

Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '14.4 "  N , 7 ° 46' 4.3"  E