To be privately owned
CastleSchwäbisch Gmünd - Lindach
Lindach Castle
Lindach Castle is a castle complex in the Lindach district of Schwäbisch Gmünd, whose oldest parts date back to the Staufer period. Its predecessor, Lindach Castle, was protected on the north and west by the slope and on the south and east by a moat.
For a long time, it was assumed that the predecessors of Lindach Castle dated back to Roman times, but this has now been disproven. It is now assumed that the square tower of Lindach Castle, on which the castle is built, is a structure from the time of Duke Frederick II of Swabia.
The gate was broken through in 1580, and the round tower was built in 1583. The Renaissance superstructure on the Staufer ashlar tower and the long building in the north date from the same period; the stair tower was added in 1624. The castle was surrounded by various outbuildings, all of which have been demolished except for the so-called "Arzthaus" (doctor's house). When it came into Württemberg's possession in 1751, in addition to the castle buildings, there was a stable, servants' quarters, a well house, a brewery, a large barn, a stone chicken coop, a wash house, a gatehouse, and a sheepfold on the castle grounds. From 1752, the owner Johann Georg Blezinger operated an inn at the castle, later by the Rettenmeyer brewery. From 1958/59, the castle was converted into a private clinic as a sanatorium. Medical use has been maintained to this day (2013).
Ownership+
Tibert von Lindach, residing in Lindach, was royal chamberlain under King Konrad III and became the progenitor of the Lords of Weinsberg. Also known are the Diemar von Lindach, who bought the complex from the Schenken von Limpurg in 1515. Knight Hans Diemar von Lindach feuded with the imperial city of Schwäbisch Gmünd in 1543/44. In 1577, Lindach came to Lorch Monastery and thus to Württemberg. Erasmus von Laymingen, chief bailiff in Stuttgart, later privy councillor and court master, received Lindach as a fief from Duke Ludwig of Württemberg in 1579. The Laymingen family remained in Lindach for exactly 100 years. From 1699, the court marshal Johann Friedrich von Staffhorst, from 1744 the Württemberg state minister Heinrich Reinhard Freiherr Roeder von Schwende, and then from 1751 Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg were owners of Lindach. In 1752, Johann Georg Blezinger, the smelter administrator in Königsbronn, acquired the property. In 1842, Count Joseph Ignaz von Beroldingen took over the castle. In the following period, ownership changed hands quickly, including the families von Larisch, von Buttler, and the Stuttgart brewery Rettenmeyer. In 1911, Lieutenant Colonel Otto von Haldenwang bought the castle at auction; after he fell in World War I in 1916, the castle went to Consul Ferdinand Freiherr von Scholley. In 1929, the Württembergers became the lords of the castle again. Albrecht Eugen Duke of Württemberg and his wife Nadejda of Bulgaria lived at Lindach Castle. In 1958, the castle passed to a family of doctors, Abele. In March 2013, the property was again for sale; as of June 2013, it is used by the Seventh-day Adventist Reform Movement for worship services.
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