Steinsche Castle (Nassau)

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The Steinsche Schloss in Nassau
Portal (entrance) to the Steinschen Castle in Nassau an der Lahn

The Steinsche Schloss is a city ​​palace in the center of Nassau in Rhineland-Palatinate . It served as the seat of the Imperial Knights family vom Stein . Among other things, the Prussian reform minister Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein grew up there .

The castle's predecessor was a Zehnthof , which the von Stein family owned as early as the 14th century. At the beginning of the Thirty Years War , the now wealthy and influential family moved their headquarters from the Steinschen Castle outside Nassau to this complex. In the centuries that followed, the former courtyard was converted into a castle and expanded.

In 1621 the main building in the late Renaissance style was completed. In 1755 two baroque wings were added. Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein commissioned the builder Johann Claudius von Lassaulx with an extension to commemorate the Wars of Liberation . An octagonal, neo-Gothic tower was then added in 1815/16 . One source indicates for the 19th century that (historically valuable) glass paintings from the church of St. Kastor (Dausenau) were "carried away" to the tower .

Today the castle is owned by Steiner's descendants in the female line, the Counts of Kanitz . The Cappenberg Castle , in which Freiherr vom und zum Stein lived for many years and which he had chosen as his retirement home, is also owned by the Counts of Kanitz by way of inheritance.

literature

  • Gerhard Eimer : Sources on the political iconography of romanticism. Stein's tower in Nassau. Frankfurt 1987.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Historical glass painting , in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 1, January 3, 1885, p. 7, accessed on January 5, 2013

Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 47 ′ 49 ″  E