Trappenseeschlösschen

The Trappenseeschlösschen, 2013

The Trappenseeschlösschen in Heilbronn is a striking baroque building in the middle of the Trappensee in the east of the city. The small castle , built in 1575/76, was once the country residence of wealthy Heilbronn families and in 1879 came into the possession of the Cluss brewery , which built an inn in the immediate vicinity. In 1977 the city of Heilbronn acquired the castle and from 1985 leased the listed building to an auctioneer.

history

The Trappenseeschlösschen in its shape before the renovation in 1790

The Trappensee near Heilbronn 1847, watercolor by Christian von Martens

The Trappenseeschlösschen (a rare Trappensee castle ) is one of the oldest preserved secular buildings in Heilbronn. It is located about two kilometers east outside the medieval town center, in the middle of the pent-up out of the water of the creek Köpfer Trapp Lake . In the 16th century there were several lakes along the Köpferbach (called Pfühlbach in the lower reaches). The Trappensee has been occupied since 1519 and is called Orthensee in 1573 . The merchant and mayor Philipp Orth had a new Renaissance building built there from 1575 to 1576 , for which he had received suggestions during a trip to Italy. Orth ran a fish farm and planted fruit around the lake. The lake was at that time after its owner still Orthensee simple or Seegut called. The sea goods came to Orth's son of the same name, Philipp Orth the Elder. J. (1567–1622) and after his death to the mayor of Heilbronn, Johann Georg Spitzer, through his widow's later marriage .

At the beginning of 1653, the Heilbronn merchant family Trapp acquired the Spitzer estate. The future mayor Johann Bernhard Trapp and his brother, the mayor Ludwig Trapp , were raised to the nobility on May 4, 1653. The Trapp were named for sea and building whose designation as a palace or castle also dates from this period.

The descendants of the mayor Ludwig Trapp died in quick succession within a few years: son Johann Ludwig Trapp (* 1621) died in 1675 and nevertheless survived his son of the same name Johann Ludwig Trapp (1646–1674). His son Ludwig Heinrich Trapp died in 1674 as a child. The last descendant of Ludwig Trapp, the great-granddaughter Anna Elisabethe Trapp, married the councilor Peter von Roßkampff (1680 small councilor), the grandfather of Heilbronn's mayor Georg Heinrich von Roßkampff . As a result, the Trappensee became the property of the Roßkampff family in 1691. In 1714, Mayor Johann Heinrich Orth (a great-grandson of the former owner Philipp Orth) acquired the facility. In 1738 the city doctor Friedrich Wilhelm Klose is named as the owner of the Trappensee estate.

In the course of the 18th century, a well-known fruit growing industry developed in the estate around the lake.

In 1784, after several changes of ownership, the castle was acquired by the Dutch admiral and diplomat Heinrich August von Kinckel (1747–1821), who was born in Heilbronn, and redesigned into its current Baroque form. Kinckel, however, lived mainly in Mannheim, so that there were all sorts of "outrages" and break-ins into the unused building. Ultimately, Kinckel sold the property to his two sisters in 1804, who leased it to the Heilbronn butcher Heinrich Pauly. After the death of the sisters Rosina Elisabeth († 1808) and Sophia († 1830), Rosina Elisabeth's daughter Elise Freifrau Rüdt von Collenberg , who had celebrated her wedding in the Trappenseeschlösschen in 1791, inherited the property. Elise died childless in Heilbronn in 1834 as the last descendant of the Barons von Kinckel , her inheritance fell to relatives of her husband, who died in 1825, who sold the property in 1838 to the previous tenant Pauly.

Around 1879 the Heilbronn brewery Cluss acquired the property and built a bar in the immediate vicinity along Jägerhausstraße, today's Trappensee restaurant. In 1977 the building was acquired by the city of Heilbronn and extensively renovated. The auction house Dr. Jürgen Fischer tenant of the Trappensee castle.

From 1909 the Pfühlpark was built between the Trappensee and the Pfühlbrunnen , which grew to its present size of around 15 hectares until the 1934 garden show.

description

In the shape of 1784, the Trappenseeschlösschen is still three-story on an almost square floor plan. The facade is divided into three axes on the long sides and biaxially on the narrow sides. The corners of the building are designed as pilasters . The moated castle is accessible on the east side via a narrow bridge through a round arch portal. The base and middle floors have large rectangular windows, the upper floor smaller. On the south side there is a small portico with four columns, above it a balcony. The hipped roof has dormers and a small roof turret.

literature

• Karl Hugo Popp u. Hans Riexinger : On the history of the Heilbronn family Künckelin / von Kinckel . In: Historischer Verein Heilbronn, Yearbook 30, 1983.
• Schmolz / Weckbach: Heilbronn with Böckingen, Neckargartach, Sontheim. The old city in words and pictures. Volume 2 , Heilbronn 1967.
• Gerhard W. Bauer: About the Heidenweg to the whore fountain. Dealing with affairs in the Heilbronn main hall , in: Heilbronnica. Contributions to the history of the city , Heilbronn City Archives 2000, pp. 249–384.

Sources and Notes

1. ↑ Julius Fekete : Art and cultural monuments in Stadt- und Landkreis Heilbronn , Stuttgart 1991, p. 51, names the year 1519 as the date of origin of the Trappenseeschlösschen. Probably the actually occupied lake of the Jos Unverworren that year is the Trappensee, but no building is mentioned yet. See Bauer 2000, p. 360.
2. ^ Moriz von Rauch: The Heilbronn merchant and councilor family Orth . In: Historischer Verein Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1925, p. 74.
3. ^ Wilhelm Steinhilber: The health system in old Heilbronn 1281–1871 , Heilbronn 1956, p. 129.
4. ↑ Stephan Sonntag: Where artistic things go under the hammer . In: Heilbronn voice . March 19, 2009 ( from Stimme.de [accessed June 15, 2010]).

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 20.3 "  N , 9 ° 15 ′ 12.3"  E