Heidenreichstein Castle

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Heidenreichstein Castle
Moated castle in Heidenreichstein

Moated castle in Heidenreichstein

Creation time : around 1190
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Received or received substantial parts
Standing position : Count
Place: Heidenreichstein
Geographical location 48 ° 51 '52 "  N , 15 ° 7' 18"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '52 "  N , 15 ° 7' 18"  E
Heidenreichstein Castle (Lower Austria)
Heidenreichstein Castle

The Heidenreichstein Castle is a moated castle in Heidenreichstein 17 km northeast of Gmund in Lower Austria .

investment

Heidenreichstein Castle is located on a rock head that only slightly towers over the surroundings. Only the moats, the towers and the high, rugged walls signal readiness for defense. The castle is bordered in the south by the Hauswehr pond, in the east by the Romaubach and in the west and north by ditches.

The castle can only be reached via two drawbridges and a renaissance gate. The round corner towers have a pointed, cone-shaped roof. The battlement of the largest tower is protected by the protruding roof. The high keep is the oldest part of the castle complex and should already have been built around 1160, while most of the farm buildings were built only between the 15th and 16th centuries.

The mostly Gothic roof structure with chopped beams is held together by carved wooden nails, the roof is still covered with shingles.

The furnishings come from different eras, some tables and chests are still from the Gothic period, and old armor and weapons have been preserved.

history

View from the northeast

Similar to Rappottenstein Castle, Heidenreichstein Castle is a minstrel castle . Like the Babenbergers , the burgrave Heidenreich von Gars strongly promoted minnesong. In 1190 he started building the castle.

The castle had to pass its first test in the 15th century, when supporters of Jan Hus and rebellious farmers besieged it during the Hussite Wars . But they could not conquer the facility.

Heidenreichstein was owned by the Hungarian noble family Pálffy for almost three centuries, from 1679 to 1942 . Since the last Pálffy prince Ladislaus (László) was childless, he bequeathed the castle to his good friend Rudolf van der Straten-Ponthoz. He bequeathed it to his second-born daughter Josephine.

In 1961, the castle was inherited from Count Van der Straten-Ponthoz to the Kinsky family and some of it is open to the public.

Others

On October 25, 1957, the Austrian Post issued a definitive stamp from the Austrian Architectural Monuments series of stamps worth 10.00 Schilling for this motif .

literature

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  • Franz Eppel : The Waldviertel . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1978, p. 128 f.
  • Chris Gravett: Atlas of Castles. The most beautiful castles and palaces . Tosa, Vienna 2001, p. 87, ISBN 3-85492-470-4 .
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  • Otto Piper : Austrian Castles, Volume 3 . Hölder, Vienna 1904, p. 46 ( online at Munich Digitization Center ).
  • Otto Piper , Thomas Kühtreiber (ed.): The castles of Lower Austria / by Otto Piper . Schleinbach, Ed. Winkler-Hermaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-9503151-0-3 , p. 92.
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  • Walter Pongratz , Gerhard Seebach : Castles and palaces Litschau - Zwettl - Ottenschlag - Weitra. Lower Austria's castles and palaces III / 1 (birch row) . Vienna 1971, ISBN 3-85030-007-2 , p. 30 ff.
  • Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3-7056-0530-5 , p. 155 f.
  • Gerhard Stenzel : From castle to castle in Austria. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-218-00229-X , p. 62 f.
  • Gerhard Stenzel : Austria's castles . Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-218-00493-4 , p. 132 f.
  • Georg Matthäus Vischer : Topographia Archiducatus Austriae Inferioris Modernae 1672. Reprint Graz 1976 VOMB, No. 43.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.heidenreichstein.gv.at/Tourismus_Freizeit/Burg/Burg_Heidenreichstein