Warthausen Castle

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Warthausen Castle, 2004
Warthausen Castle by Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1781)
Warthausen , 1905
Warthausen Castle

Warthausen Castle is a castle near Warthausen .

history

The original castle appears in a document in 1168 in connection with the sale to Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa . In 1339 it came into the possession of the House of Habsburg . In 1474 the facility burned down and was then rebuilt.

Imperial knight Hans Schad von Mittelbiberach (1505–1571) received the building from the Habsburgs in 1529 and expanded it into a country palace between 1532 and 1540. It burned down again in 1623 during the Thirty Years War and was rebuilt in the Renaissance style in the 1620s .

From 1696 Warthausen Castle was owned by the Counts of Stadion until it and the hereditary rights associated with it were transferred to the State of Württemberg in 1827 . In 1829 it passed to Wilhelm von König-Warthausen . Many well-known personalities lived in the complex, including Count Anton Heinrich Friedrich von Stadion , Johann Philipp Stadion, Count von Warthausen , Christoph Martin Wieland , Sophie von La Roche and Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen . Franz Freiherr von Ulm zu Erbach has owned the building and property since 1985 .

description

The castle is located north of Warthausen near the river Riss . The building was built in the South German Renaissance style. Outwardly it shows influences of the early baroque .

The ground was completely redesigned in the English style in the late 18th century by the gardener Brüchner. The park with parterres covers almost 7 hectares of the 40 hectare property. The rest of the area with lakes and ponds is divided into fields by avenues.

The Warthausen brewery at the foot of the Schlossberg was in operation from 1632 to 1970. It supplied about 400 restaurants in southern Germany and was a tourist attraction. The building is now used as a retirement home.

The property inspired several well-known writers and poets who were invited there from time to time, e.g. B. Christoph Martin Wieland, an important Rococo writer. Wilhelm von König-Warthausen gave detailed representations of the palace and its gardens in his works.

literature

  • Stefan Uhl: Warthausen Castle . Building history and position in Renaissance palace construction in Swabia. Federsee-Verlag, Bad Buchau 1992, ISBN 978-3-925171-24-6 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Warthausen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sights - Information on Warthausen Castle . In: www.city-map.de . Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f David Head: The Gardens at Schloss Warthausen and Their Place in German Literature . In: Garden History . 4, No. 2, 1976, pp. 30-42. JSTOR 1586400 . Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  3. ↑ South German patricians . In: RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project . October 31, 2007. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ Sights . In: Warthausen community . Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  5. ↑ Warthausen Castle . In: History and sights in Upper Swabia, Upper Swabia & Bad Waldsee Portal . November 25, 2012. Retrieved June 5, 2014.

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '54.4 "  N , 9 ° 47' 39.3"  E