Wartenberg Castle (Geisingen)
The Wartenberg Castle is a castle on the Wartenberg in Baden-Württemberg in the district Tuttlingen .
The upper castle once standing at this point came from the barons of Wartenberg to the Fürstenbergers. In 1459 Count Heinrich IV von Fürstenberg renewed the castle complex. It was still in a well-fortified condition around 1700 and consisted of a massive residential tower with a moat and a surrounding wall made of basalt stones .
Prince Josef Wenzel zu Fürstenberg lent the castle and the Meiergut Wartenberg to his Privy Councilor and Chamber President Leopold von Lassolaye in 1780 . He had a three-story pleasure palace with a mansard roof built on the site of the upper castle . The foundation walls were partially preserved. In 1783 Prince Joseph Maria Benedikt zu Fürstenberg bought the estate back and had an English garden laid out on the eastern slope with various buildings and sculptures, statues, a temple and a hermitage . He also founded the Dreilärchen farmer's colony for seven settlers. After his death in 1796 the castle fell to his brother, Prince Karl Joachim zu Fürstenberg .
In the course of the Napoleonic Wars , the castle was looted and the English Garden devastated. Under General Jean-Victor Moreau , most of the buildings in the Dreilärchen settlement were burned down. Around 1850 an inn was set up in the lower rooms of the castle. The upper floor was partly used as a tenant apartment and partly also for the royal hunting lodge.
Today the castle and the English garden are privately owned and cannot be visited.
The Wartenberg is a landscape protection area and is looked after by the Black Forest Association with the Hermitage . Guided tours are offered.
literature
- Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now. Castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and adjacent areas. In Verlag des Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 216-219.
- Michael Losse, Hans Noll: Castles, palaces and fortresses in Hegau. Defense structures and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area. Michael Greuter, Hilzingen 2006, ISBN 3-938566-05-1 , pp. 142-143.
- Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X .
Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '31.1 " N , 8 ° 37' 2.6" E