Buttenhausen Palace

Architecture, patrimoine et histoire · Allemagne entière

In the heart of Buttenhausen, a village in the Lauter valley belonging to Münsingen on the Swabian Jura, the Schloss is a plain yet elegant manor house: a long two-storey building topped by a mansard roof, built in the 18th century by the lords of Gemmingen. They had held the village since 1569 and had abandoned the old castle on the hill, now reduced to the cemetery wall. In 1782 Buttenhausen passed by exchange to the barons of Liebenstein, then to the von Münch and von Weidenbach families in the early 19th century. The estate later took on a social role: in 1935 the city of Stuttgart bought the Schlossgut to set up a care home, and in 1959 the Haus am Berg company opened the Landheim Buttenhausen there for people with intellectual disabilities. More than a monument to visit, it bears witness to the seigneurial and then social history of this village in the Lauter valley.