Trippstadt House (german: Trippstadter Schloss) is an 18th-century,

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schloss ''Schloss'' (; pl. ''Schlösser''), formerly written ''Schloß'', is the German term for a building similar to a château, palace, or manor house. Related terms appear in several Germanic languages. In the Scandinavian languages, the cognate ...

'' or

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in the eponymous village in the

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state of

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

Building

The building is made of red

sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...

and comprises a single wing and is 48 metres long by 19 metres wide and 18 metres high. It has one basement and two storeys. Above the entrance is a

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of the coat of arms of the Hacke and Sturmfeder alliance. The

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above the front entrance shows a

, the date 1766 and the names or the arms of alliance of its first owners, Franz Karl Joseph von Hacke (son of Ludwig Anton von Hacke) and Amöna Marie Charlotte Juliane Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler, who was a daughter of local

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nobleman, Marsilius Franz Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler. In 1767, an underground water supply was built at the ''Quellbachhübel'', . northeast of the residential buildings. It consisted of a spring chamber, in which the water from various springs collected, and three accessible galleries into which the water was directed downwards at a slight gradient to the castle well or to two other wells in the residential area. The latter two, the "Upper Well" and the "Deer Well", were destroyed after 1965, the tunnel to the castle well, which has been preserved over a length of 300 m, is now called the "Well Tunnel" and is one of the cultural monuments of the municipality.

History

The house was built in 1767 by the architect, Sigmund Jacob Haeckher, and called ''Maison de la Campagne'' ("Country House"). Its owner was Franz Karl Freiherr von Hacke and his wife, Amönia Freiin von Sturmfeder. He was the master hunter (''Obristjägermeister'') of Electoral Palatine, responsible for hunting in the 55 km² Barony of Wilenstein. The first lightning conductor in the Palatinate was installed at the house on 17 April 1776 by physicist, Johann Jakob Hemmer, from

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. Its

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was planned and executed around 1780 by landscape architect,

Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (13 September 1750, in Weilburg – 24 February 1823, in Munich) was a German landscape gardener from Weilburg an der Lahn. He is regarded as the founder of the English gardens in Germany, which he introduced to the Germ ...

,Information board at the house. who was also responsible for its natural extension, the attractive valley of

Karlstal The Karlstal is the valley of the Moosalb stream located near Trippstadt in the Palatine Forest in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is registered as a nature reserve - number 335 055 - under the name of ''Karlstalschlucht'' (" ...

through which the Moosalb stream flows.

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ary troops partly destroyed the house on 13 July 1794, leaving only the cellars inhabitable. The house went into Alsatian possession in 1803. The entire manorial estate of Trippstadt, including the house, was sold in 1833 by ''Reichsrat'',A ''Reichsrat'' was a member of the upper house of the Bavarian parliament. Ludwig von Gienanth. In 1865, the Freiherr von Gienanth sold the house to the

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. They established a state forestry office there in 1885 and, in 1888, rebuilt the ruined part of the house. A forestry school was opened in the house. In 1915, during the

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, the school had to be closed. Not until 1946, after the

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, was it re-opened as a school of forestry for the Palatinate. The house was home to the Rhineland-Palatinate State School of Forestry from 1960 to 1980. In 1985, the municipality of Trippstadt took over the management of the gardens and turned them into a recreation area. In 1987, the house became the home of the Forest Research Institute of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

References

Literature

* Günter Stein: ''Burgen und Schlösser in der Pfalz.'' Frankfurt/Main 1976

External links

Trippstadt House

Buildings and structures in Kaiserslautern (district) {{Coord, 49, 21, 14.40, N, 7, 46, 4.31, E, type:landmark_region:DE-RP, display=title