Ittlingen Palace

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Le château en bref

In the heart of Ittlingen, in the district of Heilbronn in the middle of the Kraichgau, the palace is a sober Baroque manor house, protected as a cultural monument. The village saw a succession of lords: the lords of Ucklingen in the 12th century, then the counts of Oettingen, before Dietrich von Gemmingen received half of it as a fief in 1414 and bought the other half. In 1577, the barons of Gemmingen built a manorial farm here, of which the vaulted cellar and its portal survive, carved with the date and the arms of the Gemmingen, the Landschad von Steinach and the Mentzingen. The present palace, a harmonious two-storey block of nine bays under a half-hipped roof, opens onto a vast courtyard through a large gateway with late Baroque, even Rococo, decoration, crowned by the arms of the Schmidberg, co-lords from 1649. Attached to Baden in 1806, the estate has belonged to the same family for more than a hundred and twenty years and is not open to visitors.