Weil Castle

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Weil Castle
View of the Weil estate with the castle on the left

The Because Castle is an early 19th century built neoclassical palace in Esslingen district because in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

history

As early as 1230, some Dominican women founded a monastery on the grounds of today's castle, but it was forcibly closed in 1558. In 1817 King Wilhelm I of Württemberg had a stud built on the site , which was to serve on the one hand as an extension of the main and state stud in Marbach and on the other as an extension of a foal farm in Scharnhausen . In 1818 the Florentine master builder Giovanni Salucci built a two-story country palace on the site on behalf of the king with a square floor plan and a portico on the front and back. This was Salucci's first project on behalf of the House of Württemberg.

On the lower floor of the palace, common rooms were installed like a dining room, the upper floor should be available to the royal family. The staircase in the middle of the building was clad with so-called Neresheim marble, which came from Härtsfeld , and was equipped with a glass dome that gave off light from above. Salucci used iron constructions as the building material, making the castle one of the first buildings in Württemberg with cast iron constructions. These were mainly used in the construction of the veranda running around the building and the glass pyramid above the stairwell. The interior of the building was painted with ceiling and wall paintings, for example in the former dining room there is a wall painting of the Neckar landscape.

In 1920 the building came into the possession of the Princess zu Wied, who sold the building to a private buyer in 1932. After the Second World War , the castle deteriorated more and more, so the iron structures rusted and the wall and ceiling paintings became more and more dirty. In 1969, the Stuttgart-based doctor couple Lambeck bought the castle and had it completely renovated between 1969 and 1972. During the renovation, some things such as parts of the veranda construction or the roof over the entrance were left out, so that the castle no longer fully corresponds to the original. In 1997 and 2003 the castle was renovated again. After that, the castle was owned by a company. The castle has been a listed building since 1969 and is a “ cultural monument of particular importance ”. The castle has been for sale since 2011. In November 2016 it was sold to an entrepreneur from Fellbach .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Bongartz, Jörg Biel: Art, archeology and museums in the Esslingen district. Theiss, Stuttgart, 1983, ISBN 3-8062-0319-9 , p. 115.
  2. ↑ Hans-Peter Braun [ed.]: The Esslingen district. Second, completely revised version, Theiss, Stuttgart, 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1005-5 , p. 211.
  3. ^ Christian Ottersbach, Claudius Ziehr: Esslingen am Neckar. Art history guide. BechtleBuch + Magazin, Esslingen am Neckar, 2001, ISBN 3-7628-0564-4 , p. 177.
  4. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg [Hrsg.]: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume I.2.1. City of Esslingen am Neckar. Thorbecke, Esslingen am Neckar, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0834-6 , p. 376.
  5. ↑ Dagmar Zimdars [edit.]: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Baden-Württemberg I. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich, 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 828.
  6. ^ Description of the Oberamt Eßlingen. Published by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau, Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1845, p. 167.
  7. ↑ a b Article on Weil Castle in the Stuttgarter Zeitung of April 7, 2011 . Accessed June 25, 2014.
  8. ↑ Bodo Cichy: The rescue of the little castle in Esslingen-Weil. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 2nd year 1973, issue 1, pp. 29–37.
  9. ^ Cichy: The rescue of the little castle in Esslingen-Weil. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , p. 33.
  10. ^ Website of the castle Weil

Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 19.9 ″  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 22.3 ″  E