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Steinen Castle around 1790

The moated castle Steinen , also called Schloss Steinen for short , is a former pond house on the northern edge of the old village of Steinen in the district of Lörrach . The house is still inhabited today.

description

The main building is a rectangular building with three floors and a polygonal stair tower. There are two round corner towers on the west side. The stepped gables shown on the sketch from 1790 no longer exist. A dismissed tithe bar is said to have carried the year 1602.

The palace complex was originally surrounded by a moat with a wall. The water was probably led into the ditch from the nearby Steinenbach .

history

The lost castle

In 1278, Adelheid and Dietrich V. von Rotenburg regulated their inheritance, transferring their possessions to the St. Blasien monastery . Among them was a Gut in Steinen and "daz Burcstal, daz ouch da lit" (the castle stables that are also there). According to this description from 1278 as a castle stables, this castle was already uninhabitable and in ruins. The location of this first castle within stones has not been proven. It is assumed that the Lords of Steinen, who have been named since the 12th century as ministerials to the Lords of Rotenburg, had a castle in Steinen as a fief .

The moated castle

Around 1350, a Dinghof of the St. Blasien monastery is mentioned, which owned a considerable amount of stone. It is believed that this Dinghof developed out of the old castle. It is not known whether the Dinghof was already in the moated castle mentioned later and what damage was caused here by the Basel earthquake in 1356 . Not until the middle of the 16th century is there any news about the castle again. In 1563 the former moated castle was completely renovated by Gregorius Krafft von Dellmensingen, the date 1563 carved on the entrance door and a window on the south side bear witness to this conversion.

In 1574 Krafft sold the castle to Wilhelm von Heidegg. He immediately withdrew from the purchase when he learned of the massive debts that were burdening the building. The subsequent processes were not ended until 1580 by settlement.

However, since 1571 at the latest, rulership over the village of Steinen was solely with the Margraves of Baden-Durlach

1597 was the land clerk and secret council, Joseph Hettler , the owner of the castle, as well as the associated property and the mill. He received a charter from the margrave that exempted him from some taxes. When Hettler became Chancellor of Margrave Ernst Friedrich von Baden-Durlach in 1599 , he had to change his place of residence and sold his castle in Steinen to Christoph Daniel von Anweil , who was mentioned as the owner in 1605 and 1618. From 1620 to 1632 the forester Jakob von Rotberg was the owner of the castle. Around 1640 the castle came to the Margrave of Baden-Durlach. In 1652 the Margrave Friedrich V sold the castle to Christoph von Lauternau zu Schöfflanden, although the castle was in a very poor structural condition. Von Lauternau acquired other goods and invested in the castle. But he died already in 1662. His heirs sold the castle in 1668 to the Margrave Friedrich VI. from Baden-Durlach . The use of the castle in the next decade remains unclear.

After Rötteln Castle , the administrative center of the Markgräflerland , was destroyed by French troops on June 29, 1678 , the Margravial administration looked for new accommodation for the various authorities. While the Landvogtei and the Landschreiberei were soon relocated to the village of Lörrach , the Burgvogtei (responsible for the collection of slopes, gulten and tithes) first came to the castle in Steinen, where it remained for about three years. Later, the Burgvogtei was for a time in the Wettinger Hof in Basel, which the margrave bought in 1686 . It was not until 1697 that all sovereign and clerical offices were housed in Lörrach and in 1731 the Burgvogtei moved into the new building in the castle courtyard in Lörrach.

Steinen Castle 2015

In 1697 the castle was sold by Margrave Friedrich VII. Magnus von Baden-Durlach to Friedrich de Rougemont, the mayor of La Chaux-de-Fonds , and received a letter of freedom for himself and his three sisters, which granted him privileges and extensive tax exemption. The widow Rose de Rougemont wanted to sell the castle to a Basel citizen in 1715, but the margravial administration objected to it and bought the property back in 1716. Instead, the castle and estate were leased to the Basler, Hans Casper Knauß, until 1726 and used by him until 1728. The margravial administration was constantly looking for tenants who offered more interest, but could not find anyone. Knauß got increasingly into financial difficulties because of the various repairs that were necessary and the low income - most of the owners and tenants of the castle property complained about this over the centuries. In 1728 the Hirschenwirt from Steinem, Friedrich Volz, took over the castle as a tenant. In 1736 Pastor Fecht became the new tenant who, however , looked for sub- tenants after his transfer to Wollbach . After no total tenant or buyer could be found on the desired terms, the margravial guardianship government under Prince Karl August proceeded in November 1745 to auction the individual parts of the property, which went to 36 citizens. The schoolmaster, Ludwig Winter, bought the castle itself. After his death it passed to three families in which it was passed on, divided up and reunited. In 1888, Wilhelm Friedrich Reinau bought the palace and converted it into a representative residence.

Todays use

In 2015, the exterior of the castle was no longer in good condition, but was inhabited. The renovation began in August 2015. The investor Götz Rehn wanted to create 9 rental apartments. To gain space, dormers should also be installed. The monument protection authority and the municipality gave their approval for the project. The conception of the renovation is carried out by the Artifex planning office, which has already accompanied construction work at the Goetheanum in Dornach. The renovation was completed in mid-2017. Today there are nine private apartments in the building.

Say

The Steinen Castle is also mentioned in the Badischer Sagenbuch: The legend "The Häfnetjungfrau (D'Häfnetjumpfere)" tells of the hard-heartedness and arrogance of previous castle owners.

literature

Web links

Commons : Schloss Steinen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see topographical plan of stones from 1773 on discover geography online - leobw
  2. ↑ Joseph Dambacher: Brief explanation of some Salemic and Sanktblasischer documents from 1202-1278. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine, Volume 2 (1851), p. 497 online in the Google book search
  3. ↑ s. Müller p. 63
  4. ^ Josef Bader: The former Sanctblasische Amt Basel. In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins, Volume 2 (1851), p. 196 online in the Google book search Walcho von Steina 1113 named as a witness ; Basler Urkundenbuch, Volume 1, p. 170; Lutoldus de Steine ​​named as a witness in 1249
  5. ↑ s. Bühler p. 37
  6. ↑ s. also Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book. Volume 2: He - Lysser , Heidelberg, 1905, p. 361 (online at: diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de )  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de  
  7. ↑ s. Horst Hänßler: Stonemason's mark in stones and the surrounding area. In: Das Markgräflerland, issue 2/1984, p. 112
  8. ↑ s. Baden Historical Commission (Ed.), Edited by Albert Krieger: Topographical Dictionary of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Heidelberg 1904, Volume 2 online under Heidelberg Historical Stocks - digital LZ, Column 1078-1079
  9. ↑ * 1566 in Nürtingen; † 1605 in Prague; s. Local family book stones [1]
  10. ↑ Entry Margrave Friedrich von Baden sells Christoph von Lauternau zu Schöfflanden his stone house with all its accessories. at the Baden-Württemberg State Archive, Wasserschloss Steinen,  in the German Digital Library
  11. ↑ s. Bühler p. 42
  12. ↑ s. August Baumhauer: Lörrach's development from village to town from the 15th to the 18th century. In: Das Markgräflerland, issue 2/1957, p. 79
  13. ↑ s. Paul Rothmund: Lörrach is raised twice to town. In: Lörrach, 1982
  14. ↑ At that time it was the margrave's policy to prevent the sale of goods (including private ones) to foreigners and thus to keep the income in the country. See also Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Friedrich von Drais von Sauerbronn : History of the government and formation of Baden under Carl Friedrich before the revolutionary period - first volume , published by CF Müller'schen Hofbuchhandlung, Carlsruhe 1816; P. 22 in the Google book search
  15. ↑ The sale of non-profitable assets was part of the debt repayment policy. In 1724 the margraviate of Baden-Durlach still had a national debt of over 1 million guilders, which could be reduced to a quarter of this amount by 1746. See also Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Friedrich von Drais von Sauerbronn : History of the government and formation of Baden under Carl Friedrich before the revolutionary period - first volume , published by CF Müller'schen Hofbuchhandlung, Carlsruhe 1816; Pp. 286–287 in Google Book Search
  16. ↑ rbr: Schlössle for rent. Investor wants to rebuild a cultural monument / praise in the building committee. In: Badische Zeitung of October 15, 2015, accessed on December 7, 2015 ; A future for the Steinen “Schlössle”. In: Markgräfler Tagblatt from October 14, 2015; Retrieved December 7, 2015
  17. ↑ s. Artifex homepage
  18. ↑ s. Robert Bergmann: The Schlössle comes to life. The building has now been largely renovated. In: Badische Zeitung of February 4, 2017; accessed on February 4, 2017
  19. ↑ Johann Peter Hebel - The Häfnetjungfrau

Coordinates: 47 ° 38 ′ 45.5 ″  N , 7 ° 44 ′ 14.5 ″  E