Adelshofen moated castle

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Adelshofen moated castle
Alternative name (s): Adelshofen Castle
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moated castle
Conservation status: Burgstall, tithe barn of the castle
Standing position : Count
Place: Eppingen - Adelshofen
Geographical location 49 ° 10 '5.8 "  N , 8 ° 53' 25.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 10 '5.8 "  N , 8 ° 53' 25.2"  E
Moated Castle Adelshofen (Baden-Württemberg)
Adelshofen moated castle

The moated castle Adelshofen , also called Burg Adelshofen , is an abandoned moated castle and former moated castle behind today's Adelshof town hall in the damp valley floodplain of today's Eppingen district of Adelshofen in the district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg and was a mansion of the Counts of Neipperg . The castle was built in the 18th century on the site of the medieval castle, but was not inhabited for long and was largely demolished by 1860. The last remaining tower was completely demolished around 1920.

history

The origin of the castle in Adelshofen as well as the early building history are completely unknown. One half of the castle was owned by Raban Göler von Adelshofen in 1420 as a margravial Baden fiefdom , came from him in 1429 to Reinhard von Sickingen and from him to his brother-in-law Reinhard von Neipperg, who in 1434 of Margrave Jakob I. also the other half and thus the Gained sole ownership of the village and castle Adelshofen. The location of the castle in the lowlands of the Nesselbach suggests that the complex has always had moats.

By the 17th century, the manor house had already been converted from a medieval low castle into a rather representative moated castle by the Lords of Neipperg , but was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War and after the reconstruction under Philipp Ludwig von Neipperg by fighting during the battle Sinsheim destroyed again in June 1674. In 1708 the Adelshofen line of the lords von Neipperg died out in the male line. Your property fell back to the Schwaigerner main line.

In 1716 a new palace was built on an ancient fiefdom under Eberhard Friedrich von Neipperg (1656–1725). The castle was surrounded on all sides by a moat and was rebuilt on top of the old rudera . The Neipperger also built the new castle in Schwaigern in 1702 under Eberhard Friedrich . Eberhard Friedrich's son Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg (1684–1774) was in the Habsburg service in Vienna. In the new palace in Schwaigern and Wilhelm Reinhard's external involvement, research sees the reasons why the manor house in Adelshofen was vacant again as early as 1755. Although the property was in good condition at the time, there was probably no need for another manor house within the count family. The reasons for the property's rapid subsequent decline are unknown. In 1860 there were only the remains of a tower, which was about 3.5 meters in diameter, 8 meters high and was completely demolished around 1920. Today only still remember Flurnamen When the castle garden and Schlossäcker and the heraldic design of the town coat of arms of the former castle.

The lordly ensemble of buildings once also included the tithe barn from 1688 (still preserved today), a dairy building with an apartment and wine press (demolished around 1870), a warehouse building (replaced by a new building around 1870) and various day laborer's houses .

literature

  • Frank Buchali: Lexicon of castles and palaces in the Heilbronn district . 5th expanded and revised edition. Self-published, Lehrensteinsfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-007056-3 , p. 22.
  • Hartmut Riehl: Castles and palaces in the Kraichgau . 2nd Edition. Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1998, ISBN 3-929366-51-7 , p. 56.
  • Reinhard Ihle: The moated castle in Adelshofen . In: Around the Ottilienberg . Volume 2. Eppingen 1982, DNB 830569499 , pp. 74-79.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Buchali: Encyclopedia of castles in the district of Heilbronn. 2012, p. 22.