Winnental Castle

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Winnental Castle, north view

Winnental Castle is a former castle of the Teutonic Order in Winnenden in the Rems-Murr district in Baden-Württemberg . After it came into the possession of Württemberg in the 17th century , it was expanded to its present form. Today the building is the Winnenden Castle Clinic .

history

In 1288, Berthold von Neuffen donated his property in Winnenden to the Teutonic Order, which founded a Teutonic Order there. Around 1300 the Kommende was moved out of the city and the city was sold to Württemberg in 1325. The oldest building of today's palace complex, the Komturbau to the west, must have been built during this time. In 1423 this building became the seat of the Commander of the Teutonic Order of Winnenden. In a map by Georg Gadner from 1593, the Komturbau can be seen with an eastern wing, which was surrounded by farm buildings to the south and a circular wall with battlements. 1665 acquired Duke Eberhard III. von Württemberg the commander of the Teutonic Order Master Johann Kaspar von Ampringen for 48,000 guilders . From this year comes a second description of the Komturbaus, which now had a stone tower on the south side and a half-timbered bay on the east side. There was also a residential building with fruit boxes on the upper floor near the Komturbau. Eberhard III. however, had this second building demolished shortly after the purchase. Instead, a three-storey corps de logis was built east of the Komturbau from 1684 to 1688 by the architect Matthias Weiß. Only a short time later, a further wing, the so-called Kavalierbau, was added to the east, which completed today's three-wing complex. From 1677 the castle served as the Apanage seat of the Württemberg-Winnental branch line , which was founded by the state administrator Friedrich Karl . After this line was dissolved in 1733, the castle came back to the main Württemberg line. In 1796, the castle was refurbished by the Württemberg construction director Reinhard Ferdinand Heinrich Fischer as the widow's seat of the wife of Duke Ludwig Eugen , Sophie Albertine von Beichlingen. As part of this refurbishment, a garden was laid out at the castle at the beginning of the 18th century. After the death of Sophie Albertine in 1807, the castle stood empty for a few years before it was converted into a barracks in 1813.

From 1830 to 1833 the castle was converted into a mental hospital by Friedrich Bernhard Adam Groß , the successor of which is still in the castle. During the renovation, several outbuildings of the castle as well as the stair tower and the bay window on the Komturbau were demolished. In return, a further outbuilding was added to each of the two wings, which was expanded again in the 1870s. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, minor changes were made, such as the construction of the clock tower on the Corps de Logis. In 1975 the east wing of the palace was torn down and replaced by a new building. A fundamental interior renovation of the castle also took place.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 , p. 894.
  2. ^ A b Christian Ottersbach, Holger Starzmann: Burgen - Schlösser - Herrenssitz, Volume 5. Stuttgart and the Middle Neckar area. Imhof, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-638-1 , p. 109.
  3. ↑ a b c Dagmar Zimdars (arrangement): Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Baden-Württemberg I. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 863.
  4. ^ Wolfgang Mayer: Cultural monuments and museums in the Rems-Murr district. Theiss, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0571-X , p. 223.
  5. ^ Description of the Oberamt Waiblingen. Published by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau, Cotta, Stuttgart / Tübingen 1850, p. 218.
  6. ^ Adolf Schahl (arrangement): The art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Volume 2. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich, ISBN 3-422-00560-9 , p. 1516.
  7. ↑ a b Schahl (arrangement): The art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Volume 2. p. 1518.
  8. ↑ Schahl (Ed.): The art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Volume 2. p. 1522.

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 21.4 "  N , 9 ° 23 ′ 52.1"  E