Walldorf Castle

Walldorf Castle was a manor house built in the 18th century in Walldorf in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia . It was a listed building and was demolished in October 2013.

history

According to archival documents, the castle was built between 1706 and 1775 as the residence of the Marschalk von Ostheim family . As early as 1596, Bernhard Marschalk von Ostheim , offspring of a noble family from the Rhön, had founded a hospital for "poor old people". After this burned down in the 1830s, it was decided to rededicate and convert the Marschalk property, which was apparently no longer inhabited at the time, for charitable purposes. In 1875 it was opened as a district poor house.

After the Second World War, the manorial complex found a new purpose as a nursing home for the elderly and fulfilled this until well after the reunification. In 1997 the Diakonie , which in the meantime was responsible for the institution, built a modern new building so that the historic building was no longer needed after the residents moved. The Diakonie's application for cancellation, which was justified by economic unreasonableness, was approved in October 2013 by the Lower Monument Protection Authority of the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen without the participation of the Monument Department and thus against § 14 (3) ThürDSchG.

literature

• Eva Gebhardt: Signs point to demolition , insuedthueringen.de , Suhl, May 31, 2012
• Wolfgang Hirsch: Two mansions disappear from the list of monuments , Thüringer Landeszeitung , Jena, February 7, 2014

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '48.7 "  N , 10 ° 23' 17.7"  E