Ottenstein Castle
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 Ottenstein Castle |
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| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Place: | Ottenstein | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 35 '47 " N , 15 ° 20' 8" E | |
| Height: | 505 m above sea level A. | |
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The castle Ottenstein is a hilltop castle in Waldviertel in Lower Austria and stands on a hill overlooking the dam Ottenstein . It is also often referred to as Ottenstein Castle .
One of the Ottensteiners was Hugo de Ottenstaine , who was first mentioned in a document in 1177. The castle itself is likely to be older. The Ottensteiners were related to the Lords of Rauheneck near Baden . They owned the castle until the first half of the 15th century.
A Tobias von Rohr followed as owner, but due to his attacks in 1448, he was captured after a siege of the castle. Later the von Rohrs were in the service of Matthias Corvinus . In 1516 the castle came into the possession of Paul Stodoligk. Numerous renovations, such as the outer bailey, were carried out under his son Eustach. In 1536 it was sold to the Lamberg family and was in their possession for over 400 years. The Lambergs were raised to the baron status in 1544 and were named Freiherren von Ortenegg and Ottenstein. In 1667 they became counts.
The castle was besieged twice during the Thirty Years War , both times, in 1622 and 1640, without success.
From 1679 on, numerous baroque alterations were made, which are still visible today. The chapel dedicated to St. Consecrated to Florian , Lorando Aliprandi provided a lot of stucco. There are portraits of 241 Popes hanging in the so-called Popes' Chamber .
The art collection created by the Lambergs was donated by Franz Adam von Lamberg in 1822 to the resulting gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . The archive is kept by the Lower Austrian Provincial Archives .
Like many other castles, it was romanticized between 1867 and 1878 and received cone and tent roofs and red-white-red shutters.
One of the oldest parts of the castle is the castle chapel with frescoes from the second half of the 12th century, which were only uncovered in 1975.
Around 1940 the area around the castle was evacuated due to the construction of the Döllersheim military training area . The castle was sold to the German Empire. As a former German property after the Second World War, it was placed under USIA administration by the Soviet occupying power and used as an officer's accommodation, which was badly affected. The castle, which has been leased by EVN since 1958, is owned by the Windhag'schen Scholarship Foundation .
A castle restaurant was set up in the outer bailey for tourist use, but it was closed by the operator in 2014 due to declining visitor numbers. Currently, the castle kitchen is only operated by larger groups or for weddings with advance notice. In 2001, in cooperation with the nearby Waldreichs Castle, a state exhibition on the subject of being and meaning, castle and people took place.
literature
- ARGE Burgen, Stifts und Schlösser des Waldviertel (Ed.): Castles, monasteries and palaces of the Waldviertel. History, culture, hiking destinations, gastronomy . St. Pölten – Vienna 1994 II, p. 68 ff.
- 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. 849 ff .
- Wilfried Bahnmüller: Castles and palaces in Lower Austria. The 103 most beautiful excursion destinations . Berndorf, Kral-Verlag 2015, p. 108, ISBN 978-3-99024-001-4
- Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes, Hartleben Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1925, II, p. 30 ff.
- Paul Buberl : The monuments of the political district Zwettl . Austrian Art Topography VIII, Vienna 1911, p. 63 ff.
- Bertrand Michael Buchmann , Brigitte Fassbinder: Castles and palaces between Gföhl, Ottenstein and Grafenegg. Castles and palaces in Lower Austria , Volume 17 Birch series, St. Pölten / Vienna 1990, p. 47 ff.
- Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber : Castles - Waldviertel, Wachau, Moravian Thayatal . 2nd edition, Verlag Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , p. 420 ff.
- Destination Waldviertel (Hrsg.): Castles, pens and palaces. Regions Waldviertel, Danube Basin, South Bohemia, Vysočina, South Moravia. Zwettl 2007, ISBN 978-3-9502262-2-5 , p. 76 ff.
- Franz Eppel : The Waldviertel . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1966, p. 176.
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages, floor plan dictionary . Würzburg 1994, p. 459.
- Laurin Luchner: castles in Austria I . Munich 1978, p. 221 f.
- Georg Clam-Martinic : Österreichisches Burgenlexikon , Linz 1992, ISBN 9783902397508 , p. 167.
- Pia Maria Plechl: dream castles . Vienna – Munich – Zurich – Innsbruck 1979, p. 65 f.
- Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3705605305 , p. 306 ff.
- Gerhard Stenzel : From castle to castle in Austria. 1973, p. 51.
- Gerhard Stenzel : Austria's castles . Himberg 1989, p. 124 f.
- Association for regional studies of Lower Austria (ed.): Topography of Lower Austria . Vienna 1877 ff. VI / 1915, pp. 590–611.
- Georg Matthäus Vischer : Topographia Archiducatus Austriae Inferioris Modernae 1672. Reprint Graz 1976 VOMB, No. 77.
Web links
- Hotel Ottenstein
- Entry via Ottenstein to Burgen-Austria
- Entry on Ottenstein bei Peygarten in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry about Burg Ottenstein on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry for Castle Ottenstein in the database of the state's memory of the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
- Ottenstein Castle at Wehrbauten.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schloss Ottenstein in the Waldviertel portal, accessed on January 17, 2016.
- ^ Communication from the Austrian State Archives of March 10, 1955, ZI. III / 3a-84 / 10-1955.
- ^ Ottenstein Castle will be closed , noe.orf.at, accessed on April 1, 2017.
- ↑ Online at Austria Forum