Winzingen Castle (Schloß Winzingen)

Architecture, patrimoine et histoire · Landkreis Göppingen

In the village of Winzingen, part of the municipality of Donzdorf at the foot of the Swabian Jura, the castle occupies the site of a medieval noble seat whose family of the same name died out in 1369. The estate then passed successively to the lords of Ahelfingen, of Degenfeld and of Rechberg zu Staufeneck, and in 1599 to the lords of Neuhausen. Around 1610 the old fortified residence was razed and replaced by a rectangular three-storey masonry building in the Renaissance style. Joachim Berchtold von Roth held it in 1607, before Benjamin von Bubenhofen bought it in 1621 from Philipp von Neuhausen. Alterations carried out in 1743–1744 by the architect David Madel of Unterelchingen left three stucco ceilings on the first floor, the staircase and the roof structure, while the Bubenhofen coat of arms still adorns the garden gate. Since 1824 the castle has belonged to the Counts of Rechberg und Rothenlöwen; it is a private residence and is not open to visitors.