Willmendingen Castle

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Willmendingen Castle
Willmendingen Castle in Schwerzen.JPG
Creation time : 17th century
Conservation status: Main building preserved
Standing position : Freiherren-Klettgau
Place: Wutöschingen - Schwerzen
Geographical location 47 ° 38 '21.8 "  N , 8 ° 21' 13.1"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 38 '21.8 "  N , 8 ° 21' 13.1"  E
Willmendingen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Willmendingen Castle
Willmendingen Castle, 1983

The Castle Willmendingen is a castle in the village Willmendingen at Schwerzen , in the municipality of Wutöschingen in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The large, rectangular building in the late Renaissance style was built in 1609 by Johann Jakob von Beck , bailiff of the Landgraviate of Klettgau , imperial notary and land clerk of Vaduz , who received the village of Willmendingen as a fief in 1607 for his numerous services .

The forest bailiff Franz Leopold Beck von und zu Willmendingen tried to sell the entire Willmendingen estate to the St. Blasien monastery in 1698 , but this did not succeed. In 1801 or 1803 Franz Xaver von Beck sold the castle to Prince Josef II zu Schwarzenberg , and the Prince zu Schwarzenberg in Tiengen again in 1812 to the Grand Duchy of Baden .

In 1920 the municipality of Schwerzen bought it for accommodation. At times it served as a school. In 1989/90 the municipality of Wutöschingen sold it to private customers. There are condos , furnished in a vaulted cellar a restaurant ( pub ).

investment

Originally there was a Meierhof ( Lieutenancy ) of the Rheinau Monastery, the Ehrenspergerhof . The castle once included extensive land holdings, a brickworks, the Willmendinger mill and the now gone Schweikhof, of which the well room on the road to Grießen still exists.

Jakob Roth was a courtyard builder around 1880. He was a very pious man and belonged to the Mennonites . At that time there were 56 head of cattle and six or seven horses in the stables, horses were also bred. He had always been happy to take care of the needy and employed a lot of other people, but nobody was allowed to curse, otherwise it was said: You passisch nit zue üs, you chasch go! He later emigrated to America with his sons, becoming soldiers was not their thing. Every year the Anabaptists met for a Gmai , a community meeting, in the courtyard.

The castle had a small castle chapel and a rear stair tower with a sandstone harrow . It has a large vaulted cellar, which was used to store the wine that was once grown here (now a restaurant). The cladding of the entrance portal with the coat of arms of the von Becks was extended. On a photo from 1950 it can still be seen at the castle. According to another description, it was expanded in 1903. It is now in the Karlsruhe Art Academy .

Epitaph of those von Beck zu Willmendingen in the Schwerzen church

Also dismantled and removed: the surrounding wall, stables, trot , chapel with turret and bell. Modern apartments were set up. Nothing has been preserved from the former furnishings such as tiled stoves, painted coffered ceilings etc. The large dormer window was reattached.

The chapel was a simple Gothic building with a bell from 1688. On the altar there was an antependium with an alabaster coat of arms of the von Beck family. It is located in the Semberg Chapel, which was built in 2002.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is divided into four diagonally and shows two oppositely colored lilies (Westermayer) and two fields each with silver rafters and three alarm clocks on a black field in the spandrels , the coat of arms is red and silver.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article from January 20, 1990 in the Südkurier
  2. ↑ Hans Matt-Willmatt (uw): From Tiengener sacristan son to bailiff - Johann Jakob Beck built Willmendingen Castle . In: Schöne Heimat am Hochrhein - Pictures of the people and their work in the district of Waldshut , Südkurier, 1967. P. 65 ff.
  3. ↑ a b photo on p. 74 and color illustration of the gate p. 78 in: Wutöschingen once and now
  4. ↑ Willmendingen . In: Josef Durm, Franz Xaver Kraus: The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden: descriptive statistics, Volume 3 , JCB Mohr, 1892, p. 170.

literature

  • Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments . Baden-Württemberg II: The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , p. 658 .
  • Franz Xaver Kraus (ed.): The art monuments of the Waldshut district . Mohr, Freiburg im Breisgau 1892 ( The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden . Volume 3), pp. 170–171 online (unfortunately without the floor plan).
  • Albert Krieger: Topographical Dictionary of the Grand Duchy of Baden, Volume 2 , Baden Historical Commission (Ed.), Heidelberg 1904, p. 1459.
  • Alois Nohl: Heimat am Hochrhein , 1984. pp. 201-206.
  • Wutöschingen - then and now, The reading book: Degernau, Horheim, Ofteringen, Schwerzen, Wutöschingen . Community of Wutöschingen (Ed.), Wutöschingen 2006. pp. 70–81.