Lower Castle (Alfdorf)

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Lower Castle, 2017

The Lower Castle is a castle in Alfdorf in the Rems-Murr district . It was built in the 16th century and is therefore the older of Alfdorf's two castles.

Location and description

The castle is located at the southeast end of the village on Untere Schlossstrasse. It consists of the massive castle building to the south and several farm buildings to the west and north, which include a courtyard with the castle. An almost square gatehouse connects to the east of the farm buildings. The eastern side of the courtyard borders on the palace garden, in which the former “pleasure and glass house” is located.

The castle is a three-story stone building with a stepped gable . On the side facing the courtyard there are two oriels that protrude about three meters and end at the level of the eaves. Furthermore, on the garden-facing side, between the ground floor and the first floor, there is a rectangular bay window with a tent roof, which was probably used as a toilet bay in the past.

The gatehouse, built in 1720 and located in the northeastern courtyard, is an almost square building with a bricked ground floor, an exposed half-timbered floor above and a pyramid roof. It has a round arched gate and a pedestrian gate through which one can get into the courtyard.

The former "glass and pleasure house" is a two-story building, which is bricked on the northwest side and otherwise consists of half-timbered floors. There are two small houses on the street and garden side .

history

The castle was built in 1550 and acquired by Georg Friedrich vom Holtz in 1628 . From 1686 to 1688 the castle was rebuilt under the direction of Sebastian Vogt. In the middle of the 19th century the castle was the main residence of the von Holtz family .

The former “Lust- und Glashaus” on the edge of the palace garden was built in 1763 by Johann Leonard Josef Ernst. In 1814 the original building was replaced by the current one. The building was converted into a brewery in 1834. In 1846 and 1847 a greenhouse was added to the existing building. The eastern part was added in 1972.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Schahl: The art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Volume 1. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich, 1983, ISBN 3-422-00560-9 , p. 100.
  2. ^ Schahl: The art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Volume 1. p. 103.
  3. ^ Schahl: The art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Volume 1. p. 104.
  4. ^ Description of the Oberamt Welzheim. Published by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau, Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1845, p. 142.
  5. ↑ a b Schahl: The art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Volume 1. p. 104.
  6. ^ Wolfgang Mayer: Cultural monuments and museums in the Rems-Murr district. Theiss, Stuttgart, 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0571-X , p. 219.

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 29.4 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 18.8"  E