White House (Mußbach)
| White House | |
|---|---|
 White house, main house |
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| Data | |
| place | Mußbach on the Wine Route |
| Client | Erhardt von Rammingen |
| Architectural style | uaRenaissance |
| Construction year | 16th to 19th century |
The White House is an extensive historical estate with the remains of a castle in the wine-growing village of Mußbach an der Weinstrasse , which was incorporated into Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) in 1969 as a district . Today the listed building is used for renting apartments.
geography
location
The White House is located at Kurpfalzstraße 77 in the transition area from Mußbach to the neighboring district of Gimmeldingen . Until after the Second World War , the building complex formed the northern end of an approximately ten hectare area that was then used for agriculture , primarily for viticulture . In the meantime this area, which is bordered in the west and east by the streets Am Altenweg and Am Weißen Haus , in the south by the stream of the Mußbach , no longer belongs to the White House; it is completely built up with one- and two-family houses, behind which there are associated gardens.
Surroundings
Opposite the White House - already on the Gimmeldinger district - is the Estelmann winery, which is also noteworthy in terms of architectural history . Hick , in which the Loblocher Schlössel wine bar is operated, 150 m east of the Eselsburg wine bar created by the expressionist painter and sculptor Fritz Wiedemann , 150 m west, on the far western edge of Mußbach, the Carl-Theodor-Hof winery, built in 1709 .
building
The building ensemble consists of a central paved inner courtyard, which is closed off in the east by a huge slate-roofed main house , which stands at the gable facing Kurpfalzstrasse and whose two stepped gables in the north and south catch the eye from afar. The main house with its arched windows rises two and a half stories - with a storey height of four meters - above the cellar, which is spanned by a barrel vault. This is accessible from the courtyard almost at ground level via two arched gates that lead inside under the large double staircase in front.
To the south and south-west, the inner courtyard is flanked by a row of former farm buildings that used to be used as barns and stables . In the west it is bordered by a castle-like complex with a monopitch roof and a stair tower, behind which another, smaller inner courtyard extends, the paved access of which runs along the farm buildings.
A massive quarry stone wall about four meters high stretches around the entire west and north side, which is provided with battlements in the north, along Kurpfalzstrasse . There is also access to the large inner courtyard via a portal that is now open, which is formed by a large round arched gate with a small side gate - also with a round arch - and the crown of which is about seven meters high. The smaller inner courtyard, in the middle of which is a large, lined, now largely filled manure pit , also had a gate opening towards Kurpfalzstrasse, but this was walled up in the first half of the 20th century.
history
Origin of the name
The origin of the name is unclear. Exposed stones and plastered surfaces, especially in the main house, are relatively light, but were never white and do not appear that way today. It would be just as speculative to infer a possible previous owner named Weiss or a previous use as an orphanage .
Building history
The oldest part is the former castle, to which the courtyard wall and gate also belong and which goes back to the medieval knight family von Rammingen . In 1598 the castle-like castle construction was completed by Erhardt von Rammingen . A badly preserved talking coat of arms from 1600 on the north wall, the coat of arms of which shows the Ramm at the top right, tells of him as the builder ; The image of the animal alludes to the siege device, also known as a ram , from which the sex derived its name. A baroque barn has Renaissance components, which are marked in 1608. Since Erhardt remained without a male heir, ownership passed to his son-in-law Carl von Pawel , who came from Braunschweig and who had married Erhardt's daughter Anna von Rammingen around 1590. Pawel was the Elector Palatinate councilor and steward of the Elector Palatinate .
Twice, in 1689 during the Palatinate War of Succession and in 1793 after the French Revolution , the castle was burned down by French troops; it was then rebuilt. Some of the farm buildings date from the early 18th century. In the 19th century the battlements were placed on the wall. The main house, built in 1890 by Ludwig Wolf as the client, with its large-format arched windows and the battlements on the gable walls, indicates that it was built in the early days .
Modern times
Franz Pfaff, who owned it during the First World War , was taken over by the married couple Adolf and Emilie Fischer in 1919. They raised the stair tower of the castle by one story and installed a tower clock on its east side . The Fischer family managed the facility as a winery until after the Second World War . Then the area in the south with the former vineyards was sold piece by piece and individual houses were built on. In 1955, Emilie Fischer, now widowed, sold the older western part of the remaining building ensemble to the brothers Hans (1913-2006) and Hermann Keil (1918-1998), who were born and raised next door and had been a bottle dealer for more than 30 years and winery supplies. This part of the estate is still owned by the heirs of the Keil brothers. Emilie Fischer's descendants sold the eastern part of the building in the 1970s to Hermann Müller from Gimmeldingen, who rented out the main building for residential purposes. Apart from renovation work, there has been no construction work since the 1920s.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Informational directory of cultural monuments. (PDF; 1.3 MB) List of monuments city Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate , March 31, 2014, accessed on November 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Steffen Gall: Imposing contemporary witness . The White House in Neustadt-Mußbach has a long history. In: Die Rheinpfalz , complete edition . No. 28 . Ludwigshafen February 2, 2018 (newspaper article copied to a large extent from the Wikipedia article).
- ↑ a b c d e The White House. (No longer available online.) Mussbach.de, archived from the original on February 23, 2018 ; Retrieved on November 17, 2014 (mostly correct in terms of content, but with many typos). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Klaus Kettler: White House in Mußbach and Erhardt von Rammingen . E-mail from November 22nd, 2014 to user Mundartpoet on the genealogy of the von Pawel-Rammingen family , forwarded to user C47 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 20 ″ N , 8 ° 9 ′ 57 ″ E