Castle of Diedendorf

The castle is located on the commune of Diedendorf, in the department of the the Low-Rhine.

History

By a letter of nomination on February 12th 1570, the count Jean IV of Nassau-Saarbrucken gives in stronghold to Jean Streiff of Lauenstein, then baillif of the count of Sarrewerden, a Métairie and grounds with Diedendorf. It is in this village that Jean Streiff makes build little time after his castle. This last was finished towards 1580. It also made build the church of Diedendorf in 1588.

He dies in 1595 and, of its union with Maria de Eich, he had a girl and six boys. His/her Elisabeth daughter married Mathias Steyss de Görnitz, lord of the manor of Lorentzen. The castle remained in the descent of the family Streiff von Lauenstein until in 1730, date on which Münchhausen sold it to Augute-Guillaume de Lüder. The son of this last, Charles Frederic, large baillif of the county of Nassau - Sarrewerden yielded the stronghold and the castle in 1743 to its suzerain the prince Guillaume-Henri of Nassau-Saarbrucken. From this moment the castle enters during one time of instability during nearly one century when it changed twelve times of owner. In 1862 it passes in the hands of a richissime clerk of notary Simon Striffler important landowner.

Its descendants preserve it more than one century and it was sold in 1966 to the Clark-Schlumberger husbands. It is Mrs Clark who sold it in 1977 to Jean-Daniel Ludmann, then preserving of the Palais of Rohan of Strasbourg.

The interior walls of the castle have a decoration of Rhenish style single in Alsace. This one makes it possible to imagine the living conditions of the nobility in the canton at the 16th century. They are decorated floral cords, bouquets and very rare caryatids, reasons in the area. It should be added that Mr Ludmann whereas it was still preserving, started to restore these paintings which decorate major the part of the walls of the parts. Today some of these last were restored in the country of origin. Its widow nowadays continues the meticulous work of restoration. Since 2005 the castle is opened with the visit every weekend of summer (guided tour the afternoon) and of May to All Saints' day for the groups on go.

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