Wellendingen Castle

Wellendingen Castle - today the town hall

Wellendingen Castle is a former castle in Wellendingen in the Rottweil district in Baden-Württemberg . It is possibly due to a stone house mentioned in 1389 , which was cremated in the Landenberg feud (1539–41) as the upper castle with the village. The castle was rebuilt in the 16th century - as the Pürschgericht map shows - and renovated in the 18th century. After its sale in 1824, it was converted into a school and town hall. Today it is the seat of the local government . The smaller lower castle, which was also sold at the time, was for a long time an inn ("Gasthaus zum Schlössle").

history

The history of ownership can be found in the description of Rottweil over Wellendingen from the year 1875: In 1258, the local nobility at Wellendingen Castle is mentioned for the first time as the feudal people of the Counts of Hohenberg . The local lords left Wellendingen as early as the 13th century and took up residence in a small castle in Haigerloch im Hag near the Roman tower . It was later converted into Hagschlösschen . After the Pfuse the Ifflinger von Granegg took possession of the castle. The castle, newly built by the Ifflingers in the 16th century, was destroyed in the Landenberg feud in 1540. The Rottweiler Pürschgericht map from 1564 shows a walled stone building with stepped gables next to the church, fortified by round towers. Until Konrad von Humpis transferred the property to his grandson Konrad Sigmund von Freyberg, the Humpis von Waltram owned the castle. Until the end of the old empire, the barons of Freyberg were lords of the castle in Wellendingen.

In 1825 the community bought all goods and buildings from the Freyberg lordship with all fairnesses that had not yet been sold. She set up a school and town hall in the former old castle, tore down a former summer house and sold the lower castle as an inn. The extensive economic building was also demolished. The goods, including the very spacious castle courtyard and castle square, were sold to individual citizens.

Building description

Only small remains of the fortified walling exist to the west of the building. The building is a simple, rectangular three-storey building with the long side facing north with six window axes on three and a steeper hipped roof , the long side of which has three flat roof dormers on each side. The four corners are square with wide sandstones . The windows are also made of sandstone . A square porch with its own tent roof is attached to the west .

The lower castle (today Gasthaus Schlössle ) stands just a few meters east of today's town hall as a smaller elongated rectangular building directly on the main street.

Web links

Wikisource: Wellendingen - in the description of the Oberamt Rottweil from 1875

literature

Inventory. Black Forest District . In: The art and antiquity monuments in Baden-Württemberg . Stuttgart 1897, p. 340 .
Hans Martin Maurer and Winfried Hecht: Wellendingen, in: Handbook of the historic cities of Baden-Württemberg . In: Max Miller and Gerhard Taddey (eds.): Handbook of historical cities . 2nd Edition. tape 6 . Ludwigsburg 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X , p. 875 .
Eugen Stemmler: Haigerloch (Zollernalbkreis), in: Handbook of the historical sites of Germany Baden-Württemberg . In: Max Miller and Gerhard Taddey (eds.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . 2nd Edition. tape 6 . Ludwigsburg 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X , p. 281 .
Ch. Florian: Diversity of the old order (until 1805/10). Wellendingen, in: The district of Rottweil, Vol. II . In: Landesarchivdirektion Rottweil in connection with the district of Rottweil (ed.): Baden-Württemberg The state in its circles . 2nd Edition. Jan Thorbecke, Ulm 2004, p. 339 .
Wolfgang Willig: Landadel palaces in Baden-Württemberg. A historical search for traces . 1st edition. Balingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813887-0-1 , p. 576 f .
Winfried Hecht: Castles around the uppermost Neckar . Neckartal-Verlag, Rottweil 2016, p. 51 f .

48.146685 8.701527Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '48.1 " N , 8 ° 42' 5.5" E