Schloss Schönborn, Geisenheim
Facts and practical information
Schönborn Castle is a Renaissance noble estate from the mid-16th century in Geisenheim in the Rheingau region.
Hermann von Stockheim, who came from a noble family in Geisenheim, had the farm built in 1550. Philipp Erwein von Schönborn, the brother of the Archbishop of Mainz Johann Philipp von Schönborn, acquired the estate in 1652, which is still owned by the Counts of Schönborn-Wiesentheid.
The building is a typical example of the type of open manor house found in the Middle Rhine and Main regions, which was transferred from late Gothic form to the Renaissance. Other farms of a similar type were owned by the Stockheim family in Eltville am Rhein and the Stockheimer Hof in Idstein.
The present condition of the property essentially goes back to reconstructions from the 19th century: in 1875, the Frankfurt architect Heinrich Theodor Schmidt added two half-timbered upper floors on top of the stone building in a historicizing Renaissance style.
Around the property is a walled vineyard.
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