Geislingen moated castle
The moated castle Geislingen is a three-wing moated castle in Geislingen in the Zollernalb district . Erected in the 15th century as the mansion of the Lords of Bubenhofen , it was expanded in the 18th century by the Stauffenberg taverns to create a baroque three-wing complex with a castle park.
history
Already at the beginning of the 15th century there was a castle in Geislingen, which at that time belonged to the Lords of Bubenhofen. In 1426, Wolf von Bubenhofen, called "the Elder", built a building next to this castle, which is still the basic structure of the north-western wing of today's castle. Until 1464 this building was surrounded by two moats. In 1516 the possessions of the Lords of Bubenhofen, including the Geislingen manor, were confiscated by the Rottweil court due to insolvency and handed over to the chief bailiff, Hans von Weitlingen, as a pledge. As early as 1527, Hans von Stotzingen acquired the Geislingen manor and property of the Lords of Bubenhofen in the area around Balingen . Towards the end of the 16th century, the castle chapel with a stucco ceiling was installed, which is the only original interior of the castle today. In 1666, General Georg Schütz von Purrschütz acquired the manor from the Lords of Stotzingen after they were impoverished during the Thirty Years' War . After several changes of ownership towards the end of the 17th century, the manor came to Johann Wilhelm Schenk von Stauffenberg for 34,000 guilders in 1698 , who had the outbuildings in today's palace garden demolished and instead had some buildings built, for example the "porcelain pavilion" built in 1716. In 1762 the castle came into the possession of Baron Anton Damian Friedrich Hugo von Stauffenberg, who had it expanded in the following years. In 1783, the baroque north-east and south-east wings of the palace were built and expanded into a three-wing complex with the existing north-west wing. Six years later, a castle park was laid out on the area between the two castle moats and the interior of the “porcelain pavilion” was refurbished. In the course of mediatization , the manor came to Württemberg in 1805 , but the castle remained in the possession of the Stauffenberg taverns. In the 19th century the castle was not inhabited for a long time, so that when Franz August Schenk von Stauffenberg and his family moved in in 1866, the castle first had to be renovated. After his death in 1901, the castle was again vacant for a long time, but in 1905 it was temporarily used as accommodation for around 60 children in Binsdorf after the city fire there. In 1925 the community of Geislingen bought the castle, dissolved the still existing manor and used the castle as a school. After the Second World War , the Geislingen municipal administration also moved into the castle building. However, this moved to a new building in 1963 and the school also moved to another building two years later. The now vacant building should be torn down, which could be prevented in 1968. 1974 to 1985 a fundamental renovation of the exterior of the castle took place. a. the roof and the palace park were renovated or reconstructed. The city library and the city archive of Geislingen have been located in the north-west wing of the palace since 1985; the rest of the palace is largely used as a facility for club rooms.
description
The palace complex is located south of the Geislinger parish church St. Ulrich in the city center. The castle is surrounded by two walled moats, the space between the two moats serves as the castle garden. The outer moat surrounds the castle on three sides and is open to the southwest. The square inner moat is surrounded by a sandstone balustrade. The inner surface of the complex contains the castle, which was built as a three-storey three-wing complex. The main courtyard of the palace, built under a mansard roof, opens to the west. It is accessible via a stone bridge that runs over the two trenches on the northeast side and a passage on the northeast wing. At the passage of the north-east wing is a classical portal with pilasters , the year 1783 and the alliance coat of arms of the Stauffenberg- Kageneck . Inside the castle, the castle chapel from 1580 with its stucco ceiling is the only original room in the building that has been preserved.
There are two pavilions in the castle park. The pavilion in the eastern corner of the palace park is an open wooden structure that used to be an arbor. The octagonal “porcelain pavilion” in the north corner of the palace garden was clad in blue and reddish-brown faience tiles in the 18th century showing biblical representations.
literature
- Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district. Thorbecke, Ostfildern, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 178-189.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b City of Geislingen on the moated castle ( memento from September 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed July 15, 2014.
- ↑ Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district. P. 180.
- ↑ Dagmar Zimdars (arrangement): Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Baden-Württemberg II. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich, 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , p. 249.
- ↑ Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district. P. 182.
- ^ Entry on moated castle Geislingen in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved September 17, 2015.
- ↑ Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X , p. 243.
- ↑ Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district. P. 183.
- ↑ Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district. P. 186.
- ^ Heinrich Haasis (Ed.): The Zollernalbkreis. Theiss, Stuttgart and Aalen, 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0522-1 , p. 203.
- ^ Description of the Oberamt Balingen. Published by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1880, p. 392.
Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 8.9 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 44.1" E