Neulengbach Castle

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Neulengbach Castle
Neulengbach Castle from the south

Neulengbach Castle from the south

Alternative name (s): Neulengbach Castle
Creation time : around 1189

(Establishment of the market)

Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: well preserved, converted into a castle
Place: Neulengbach
Geographical location 48 ° 11 '53 "  N , 15 ° 54' 37"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '53 "  N , 15 ° 54' 37"  E
Neulengbach Castle (Lower Austria)
Neulengbach Castle

The Burg Neulengbach was a hill fort on a free-standing and 80 m high mountain peak on the Lower Austrian town of Neulengbach in the district of Sankt Polten-Land , which was rebuilt in the 16th and 17th centuries into a castle. The palace complex is a three-storey polygonal building with a double weir ring and eight round towers , a porch with a magnificent Renaissance portal and a courtyard with Tuscan double columns and a stone fountain.

history

Neulengbach Castle was founded together with the market by the high libertarians from Lengenbach around 1189. The castle became the center of the local Lengenbach rule. After the Lengenbachers died out in 1236, it came into the possession of the Babenbergs . In the late Middle Ages, Neulengbach Castle was the seat of sovereign caretakers and was often pledged. In 1565 Rudolf Khuen received the rule of Neulengbach from Belasy . Under the barons of Khuen, in the third third of the 16th century and in the first half of the 17th century, the castle was expanded or expanded into an unadorned late Renaissance palace.

Other owners:

In January 1912 a fire raged in the castle. The entire interior was destroyed. In 1920 the municipality of Vienna acquired the castle and used it as a children's home. In 1952 the Neulengbach Castle Association followed as owner, and in 1962 Martin Wakonig.

Picture gallery

  • Inner courtyard of Neulengbach Castle

  • South view in autumn.JPG

  • South-east view with the artillery bullet holes from World War II

literature

  • Rudolf Büttner: Castles and palaces in Lower Austria. Volume 5: Between Greifenstein and Sankt Pölten. Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-85030-015-8 .
  • Federal Monuments Office (Hrsg.): Dehio - Lower Austria (south of the Danube) . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 .

Web links

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