Seeheim Castle

The origins of the site where Schloss Seeheim stands date back to the 13th century, when Petershausen Monastery took over most of the then Eichhornwald from Reichenau Monastery. In 1659, Franz Theodor Lips, chief bailiff of the Teutonic Order, acquired the area, then known as “Landkomturliches Rebgut zu Hinterhausen,” which presumably housed the predecessor building. In 1672, the vineyard passed to the Teutonic Order Commandery of Altshausen. After secularization in 1803, the site fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden. In 1816, the Konstanz banker Jacques Louis Macaire de L´Or bought the property as trustee for Hortense de Beauharnais, Napoleon I's adopted daughter. She used it as a country house before it was sold in 1834. After several changes of ownership, Adolf von Scholz acquired the property in 1885.