A Castle and a Landscape Garden

Meadows, Groves, Ponds and an Island

Around 1790, the lord of the castle, Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg, commissioned one of the foremost landscape gardeners of his time, Friedrich Ludwig Skell, to lay out a park around the castle. Skell made an English landscape garden of it, supplying it with meadows, outlier groves, ponds and an island.

The barons of Dalberg, territorial lords, held high positions at the Mannheim court and wielded enormous supraregional influence. Their last descendant sold the castle in 1883 to the von Heyl barons, local industrial magnates who on their part resold it to the City of Worms. Today it houses the municipality’s favoured rooms for representative functions.

Orangery and Library Tower

The outbuildings of the castle were built in the 18th century, the orangery, now housing a café, in the early 19th century. The castle’s interior design is particularly remarkable. Large part of it is preserved on the ground floor, including wall and ceiling paintings. Rare French wallpapers from the first half of the 19th century feature a panorama of Paris and a scene from the Bosporus (first floor). Another highlight is the library tower.

360° Panoramic View

Herrnsheim Castle
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Green Salon (wedding room in the castle)
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Location

Herrnsheimer Hauptstraße
Worms-Herrnsheim

The castle is signposted in the suburb.

Guided tours

The Tourist Information offers tours of Herrnsheim Castle for individual travellers and groups. For dates, prices etc, please consult our Guided tours section, where you will also be able to book tours online.

For further information, please contact

Tourist Information Worms
Neumarkt 14
67547 Worms
phone +49 6241 25045
fax +49 6241 26328
e-mail touristinfo@worms.de 

Herrnsheim Castle on the city map (German only)