Oppenweiler moated castle

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The moated castle in Oppenweiler, today the town hall

The Moated Castle Oppenweiler is a castle built in the 18th century in the classical style in Oppenweiler in the Rems-Murr district .

location

The castle is located on the eastern outskirts on an island in a lake near the Murr . A stone bridge that leads from the farm buildings on the western edge of the lake to the island leads to the castle. The castle also has a park that extends around the lake in a north and south direction. A path leads around the lake and around the outer boundary of the park.

description

The castle made of unplastered rubble stones is laid out in the form of an unequal-sided octagon, with the front and back being slightly longer than the side and diagonal surfaces. The three-story building consists of the first floor, which is also the main floor, as well as a slightly lower ground floor and a mezzanine-like second floor. The building has a tent roof with a pavilion attachment , which in turn has an unequal eight-sided tent roof. At the front of the castle there is a pillar portico with a balcony, on whose grating the coat of arms of the von Sturmfeder can be seen. On the second floor there is an ox-eye in the middle , underneath an inscription plaque with the date of construction and renovation. At the top of the belvedere sits a wrought iron flag dated 1959, when another renovation was carried out.
The interior of the castle is aligned with the stairwell in the middle of the building. Living and working rooms are arranged around the staircase, which extends from the ground floor to the first attic. The second top floor and the Belvedere can be reached via a separate staircase.

history

The castle goes back to a moated castle built around 1575 . This was probably a half-timbered building with a circular wall and a farm yard. In 1783 the moated castle was completely demolished in the course of the new palace construction, only parts of the cellar vault remained. In 1782, the Heidelberg builder Johann Andreas von Traitteur was commissioned by Franz Georg Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler to plan a new palace. The construction management led from the laying of the foundation stone in May 1783 to the end of construction in 1784 Georg Jakob Schwicker. However, defects in the building led to exterior and interior renovations as early as 1854. Under the builder Friedrich Carl Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler u. a. the walls and roof of the roof tops changed. In 1939 the castle became the town hall building of the Oppenweiler community, and in 1959 it was renovated again.

Castle garden

The palace garden was laid out in 1778 by Friedrich Ludwig Sckell , who had already worked for the Sturmfeder family in 1790. The palace garden probably originally contained an octagonal building that served as a tree nursery. In 1804 a tomb was placed in the palace garden to commemorate Maria Charlotte Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler.

literature

  • Adolf Schahl (arr.): The art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Volume 1. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 1983, ISBN 3-422-00560-9 , pp. 701–707.
  • Gerhard Fritz, Roland Schurig (ed.): The castles in the Rems-Murr-Kreis . Manfred Hennecke Verlag, Remshalden 1994, ISBN 3-927981-42-7 , pp. 89-90.

Web links

Commons : Wasserschloss Oppenweiler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schahl: The art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Volume 1. p. 706.
  2. ↑ Description of the Oberamt Backnang. Issued by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau; Lindemann, Stuttgart, 1871, p. 275.
  3. ^ Schahl: The art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Volume 1. p. 701.
  4. ^ Wolfgang Mayer: Cultural monuments and museums of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Theiss, Stuttgart, 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0571-X , p. 115.
  5. ^ Schahl: Art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Volume 1. p. 702.
  6. ↑ Dagmar Zimdars [edit.]: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Baden-Württemberg I. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich, 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p 614.
  7. ^ Schahl: Art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Volume 1. p. 707.

Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′ 1.4 ″  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 38.6 ″  E