Waldleiningen Castle

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Waldleiningen Castle
Waldleiningen Castle as a watercolor by Carl Theodor Reiffenstein from the middle of the 19th century

Castle Waldleiningen is a romantic castle in the district Mörschenhardt the community Mudau (one for Neckar-Odenwald belonging municipality in Baden-Württemberg ) below the Odenwald Limes in a side valley . Today the castle houses a psychosomatic clinic .

After the Princely House of Leiningen received the Principality of Leiningen in 1803 as compensation for the territory it had lost to France in the Palatinate , Prince Emich Carl zu Leiningen set up a large wildlife park in a remote valley of his new Principality in the Odenwald , which extends over several districts in what is now Baden- Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse extended. In it he first built a hunting lodge. In memory of his lost territories in the Palatinate, he named this initially simple wooden structure Waldleiningen after one of his hunting grounds there .

On the slope of the Steinichtal a then fashionable Gothic ruin wall with turrets and bay windows was built between 1808 and 1810. This complex soon fell into disrepair and was torn down by his son, Prince Karl zu Leiningen , and replaced by today's castle.

The castle was built from 1828 based on British castles, such as Abbotsford , the home of the world-famous Scottish writer Walter Scott , and was completed by the Prince's successors in 1873. The master builder of the palace was the architect Karl Brenner , artistic advisor to the court painter Sebastian Eckhardt .

During the Second World War , the castle was used as a military hospital and later converted into a psychosomatic clinic, which is now run as a private company by the Princely House.

literature

  • Friedrich Oswald, Waldleiningen Castle. Dortmund 1972.
  • Heinrich Niester, The structural extension of the Waldleiningen castle complex. In: Badische Heimat, 57, 1977, pp. 241–245.
  • Barbara Riederer, Waldleiningen Castle. Refuge for a princely democrat. In: Charivari, No. 4, August 1980, pp. 3-7.
  • Barbara Riederer, The Landscape Garden or The Origin of Time from Space. Heidelberg 1998. (With drawings of the Waldleiningen Castle by Manfred Riederer ). ISBN 3925678816 .
  • Thomas Müller, Schloss Waldleiningen: on the building history of the princely hunting lodge. In: Unser Land, 2000, pp. 145–148.
  • Bernd Fischer, The hunting lodge Waldleiningen in 1813. In: Unser Land, 2011, pp. 85–88.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 34 ′ 2 ″  N , 9 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  E