Fachsenfeld Palace (Schloß Fachsenfeld)

Architecture, patrimoine et histoire · Ostalbkreis

Fachsenfeld Palace overlooks the Kocher valley in the district of Fachsenfeld, part of the town of Aalen in the Ostalbkreis. From the early 15th century, the barons of Woellwarth-Laubach were lords here. In 1540, Georg Sigmund von Woellwarth had a large farm building erected, which his son Hans Sigmund converted into a palace. During the Thirty Years' War, in 1634, Kaspar von Woellwarth lost the estate to the Teutonic Grand Master Johann Kaspar von Stadion, then recovered it. The palace burned down at Christmas 1699. In the early 19th century the estate passed to Karl von Varnbüler, who sold it in 1827 to Wilhelm von König-Warthausen. From 1828 he built the present classical country house, completed in 1839 by a belvedere, and the Koenig-Fachsenfeld family laid out the landscape park. Around 1900, André Lambert enlarged the library and the gallery. In 1982, Baron Reinhard von Koenig-Fachsenfeld created the foundation that preserves the palace, the park and its collections. Open from April to November, it hosts weddings, concerts and exhibitions.