Braiten Castle
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Braiten Castle is near Baden near Vienna . It was built in 1809.
history
The Polish scholar Joseph Max Ossolinski (1748–1826), Count von Tenczyn , had the castle and the ancillary building built by city architect Anton Hantl (1769–1850) in 1809 and 1810, respectively . In the lavishly furnished property, the client gathered scholars and artists, as in his Vienna apartment, among others from July 29, 1816 to mid-October 1816, Ludwig van Beethoven . Parts of the Piano Sonata No. 28, Op. 101 were composed here .
After Ossolinski's death, the Wertheimer family took over the palace and expanded it (facades, terraces) around the middle of the 19th century. The most prominent resident around 1848 (and later) was Archduchess Marie Anna (1804–1858), daughter of Emperor Franz II./I. who had withdrawn from the imperial house on Baden's main square into the palace during the revolution . The castle was often mentioned in newspaper reports in 1860 when the Viennese psychiatrist Gustav Görgen (1814–1860), head of the Döblinger insane asylum, committed suicide in the house. Changing owners used the castle as a tourist business and, after dividing the property, set up the Hanausek guesthouse in the western part in 1911/12 (today: Elisabethstrasse 10). In 1925, the butchers' cooperative in Vienna bought it and created a rest home. After the expropriation it functioned from 1939 to 1945 as the administrative building of the district administrator for the Baden district (i.e. as part of the former district administration). During the occupation period 1945 to 1955, the Russian city command was housed in the building. In 1960 it was bought by the sponsoring association for the painting school of the Austrian painting trade (since 1948 in Leesdorf Castle ) and renovated. Braiten Castle was then the Federal Institute for Home Education from 1960 to 1998 and later the Federal Institute for Social Education . After he moved to a new building, it was used as a day care center.
architecture
The late classical palace has three floors. The seven-axis front shows four Ionic pilasters in the central projection facing Braitnerstraße . The mezzanine-like second floor has three large semicircular windows. Above it runs a high attic , on which several stone sculptures once stood, which are missing today. Three large glazed loggias protrude from the rear . The garden surrounding the castle was famous in the 19th century and was much admired, but is now blocked. A neo - Gothic temple - like pavilion has been preserved on the park boundary to Elisabethstrasse .
literature
- Viktor Wallner : Kaiser, cures and commands. Baden from 1804–1918 . Society of Friends of Baden, Baden 1999.
Web links
- Baden - Braiten burgen-austria.com
- Federal Institute for Social Education - History bisopbaden.ac.at
Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 12 ″ N , 16 ° 14 ′ 6 ″ E