Thalheimsche House (Eberbach)

The Thalheimsche Haus in Eberbach in the Rhein-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg is the oldest stone house in the town. It bears its name after its former owners, the Lords of Talheim , and in the course of its history it was the Electoral Palatinate official winery , princely Leiningen's hunting lodge and town hall . Today the building houses an information center for the Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park .

history

The exact age of the building is unknown. However, it already existed in 1427 when the Palatine steward Peter von Thalheim exchanged the building with Count Palatine Otto I for the Palatine court in Eberbach. In the hands of the Palatinate, the building with its outbuildings, which have long since disappeared, served as the headquarters of the Eberbach winery . In the recatholization phase after the War of the Palatinate Succession , Catholic services were occasionally held in the Thalheim house in the early 18th century. When the Electoral Palatinate was dissolved during the Napoleonic Wars, the Palatinate property in Eberbach came to the Principality of Leiningen and, after its rapid end, to the Grand Duchy of Baden . However, the Leininger princes remained in possession of the Thalheim house and used it as a hunting lodge for a long time. An inscription stone on the building commemorates Edward von Kent and his wife Victoria, used. von Leiningen , who lived there in 1818/19 and did not return to England until the birth of their daughter, who later became Queen Victoria . The Leiningen house temporarily planned to build a new palace as a family seat on the site of the Thalheim house, but abandoned these plans in the 1840s. In 1845 the city of Eberbach acquired the property for 18,000 guilders, converted it into a district court with a judge's apartment and rented it to the Baden state. A cigar factory was set up in an outbuilding in 1854. In 1872 the building was extensively renovated and continued to be used as a district court. In 1939, the city set up a wedding room, a public library and a local history museum initiated by John Gustav Weiß in the building . In 1965 the Thalheim house became the town hall and the official seat of the mayor. The Eberbach city administration moved into a new town hall in 1991. In 1995 an information center of the Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park moved into the building.

description

The Thalheimsche Haus is a massive three-story stepped gable building . The house has been rebuilt many times, as evidenced by the often changed window frames. Most of the window frames of the current building date from the period between 1600 and 1800, the neo-Gothic windows of the north gable certainly not until after 1800. The building was originally attached to the six-storey sub-gate tower, which was demolished in the mid-19th century. The stepped gable of the building is based on the historical design, but in its current shape was only created as a result of historical renovations.

literature

• Roland Vetter: The Thalheimsche house in Eberbach . In: Our country. Home calendar for Neckar Valley, Odenwald, building land and Kraichgau . Heidelberg 1997, pp. 72-75.

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 45.1 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 1.8 ″  E