Hartenstein Castle (Lower Austria)

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Hartenstein Castle
Hartenstein Castle (Lower Austria)

Hartenstein Castle (Lower Austria)

Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Received or received substantial parts
Place: Weinzierl am Walde
Geographical location 48 ° 26 '47 "  N , 15 ° 23' 47"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '47 "  N , 15 ° 23' 47"  E
Hartenstein Castle (Lower Austria)
Hartenstein Castle

The Burg Hartenstein in Austria is in the small Kremstal , in the rugged granite landscape of the forest district , about 15 km west of the town of Krems in the municipality of Weinzierl am Walde in Lower Austria .

history

The founding of the Hartenstein manor and the associated building of a residence lies hidden in the dark of history. Presumably the hilltop castle was built by a possible descendant of the Kuenringer , Heinricus de Hertinsteine , mentioned in a document in 1187 . Hartenstein was also owned by the Lords of Kaja and Kamegg . They owned the castle until 1270 when it fell to the brothers Hertnit and Leutold von Stadekke. In 1300 Heinrich von Wallsee acquired the facility. The powerful Wallseers from Swabia often appear in the Waldviertel as the successors of the Kuenringers. They owned numerous dominions such as Spitz , Senftenberg , Gföhl and Dürnstein . They let burgraves administer Hartenstein . When they gave up a number of lords in the Waldviertel in the second half of the 14th century, Hartenstein came to the Lords of Maissau from 1380 to 1411 . In 1416 Christoph von Rappach came into possession of the castle. From 1430 it belonged to Hans and Leopold von Neidegg, the owners of Burgschleinitz , Ranna and Albrechtsberg . In 1445 it was bought by Jörg Scheck vom Walde . Now the owners changed quite frequently.

In the second half of the 17th century, the lords and rulers preferred more comfortable homes, left the castle and left it to decay. But in 1645 it still withstood a brief siege by the Swedes, who blew up the "Nasn", an outer works. In 1666, Finance Minister Georg Ludwig Graf Sinzendorf , who later became ingloriously known, bought the estate with 117 subjects. After his death in 1682, Prince Paul Esterhazy acquired the castle. 1726 enfeoffed Emperor Charles VI. the Baron Philipp Ferdinand von Gudenus with hard stone, it remained in his family until the 1927th In the years 1780 to 1799 Johann Heinrich Baron von Gudenus used the still usable material such as doors and window frames for the construction of his hunting lodge Els. At the beginning of the 19th century, the two towers served as bulk boxes . The doctor Otto PospischiL leased the plant in 1892 and taught in 1892/96 in historicizing "castle style" converted Vorburg one a water-cure establishment. The main castle had long since become a ruin .

During the Nazi era, the building served the German Youth Hostel Association (DJH) as a “ youth castle ”. An attempt to resuscitate the sanatorium by the doctor Erich Buchmeier after the Second World War was unsuccessful. In 1993 Peter Kotauczek and his company BEKO Hartenstein took over.

Surroundings

Below Hartenstein Castle is the Gudenus Cave , which was washed out of the bank and was inhabited by Neanderthals in the Stone Age , in which Lower Austria's earliest, almost 100,000-year-old traces of settlement such as hand axes and other tools were discovered.

literature

  • Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (=  Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 801 .
  • Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes, Hartleben Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1925, II, p. 17 f.
  • Bertrand Michael Buchmann, Brigitte Faßbinder: Castles and palaces between Krems, Hartenstein and Jauerling . Castles and palaces in Lower Austria 16 (birch row), St. Pölten – Vienna 1990, p. 133 ff.
  • Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber (eds.): Castles - Waldviertel, Wachau, Moravian Thayatal . 2nd revised and expanded edition, Verlag Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , pp. 549-551.
  • Franz Eppel : The Waldviertel . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1966, p. 126.
  • Franz Fux: Land between the Krems River and the Danube River . History of the community of Weinzierl am Walde. Weinzierl am Walde 1990, p. 35.
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages, floor plan dictionary . Würzburg 1994, p. 249.
  • Georg Clam-Martinic : Österreichisches Burgenlexikon , Linz 1992, ISBN 9783902397508 , p. 135.
  • Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3705605305 , p. 400 f.
  • Ilse Schöndorfer: Stones and Legends - Burgruinen in Niederösterreich , 1st edition 1999, Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, St.Pölten / Vienna, ISBN 3-85326-114-0 , p. 98 ff.
  • Gerhard Stenzel : From castle to castle in Austria. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1973, ISBN 321800229X , p. 182.
  • Hans Tietze : The monuments of the political district Krems . Austrian Art Topography I, Vienna 1907, p. 117 ff.
  • Association for regional studies of Lower Austria (ed.): Topography of Lower Austria . Vienna 1877 ff. III / 1896, p. 97.
  • Georg Matthäus Vischer : Topographia Archiducatus Austriae Inferioris Modernae 1672. Reprint Graz 1976 VOMB, No. 46.

Web links

Commons : Burg Hartenstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online at Austria Forum