Plankenstein Castle
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| Creation time : | before 1453 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | receive | |
| Place: | Plankenstein between Texingtal and Pielachtal | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 1 '28 " N , 15 ° 16' 45" E | |
| Height: | 650 m above sea level A. | |
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Plankenstein Castle is located in Plankenstein, about 4 kilometers southwest of Texing in Lower Austria . The hilltop castle is mentioned for the first time in 1186 and was built by the Plankensteiners, feudal people of the Counts of Peilstein . The family name is derived from the word blanc (= white) and means roughly that of the white stone .
history
The Plankensteiner acquired important property in the 15th century. Pankraz von Plankenstein owned, among others, Peilstein, Freienstein and Sassendorf, was pawnbroker of Weitra and caretaker of Pöchlarn . He had the castle renovated in 1453, but did not live there. In the brotherly dispute between Emperor Friedrich III. and Duke Albrecht VI. Pankraz von Plankenstein stood at the emperor's side, which brought him further power after the peace agreement.
After many years of changeable ownership, the Tinti family acquired the castle in 1713. Bartholomäus von Tinti , who acquired the Schallaburg in 1763 , died in 1799 at the age of 96 on Plankenstein.
Decay
Since his family already lived in the Schallaburg, Plankenstein was abandoned and began to deteriorate. A chronicle from 1800 reports: Plankenstein, at the beginning of the century still a well-preserved castle, was stripped of its furnishings piece by piece, and finally even of its windows and doors. Wind and weather played their game in the state rooms, the walls burst, the roofs sank and in a few decades the castle was a ruin. Plankenstein could no longer be straightened, as the most necessary restoration would have resulted in disproportionately high costs. But at least enough was done to ensure that church and school, pastor's and schoolteacher's apartment found space in the ruins of the castle.
In 1939 the Tinti family sold their heavily indebted property including Plankenstein and the Schallaburg to the aristocratic Nagel-Doornick family from Westphalia, who still own castles in Germany today, including Vornholz Castle . After the Second World War, your possessions were expropriated as German property by the Russian occupying forces. While Schallaburg, as a former USIA company , fell to the Republic of Austria in 1955 with the state treaty due to unclear ownership, which it resold to the State of Lower Austria, Plankenstein Castle was restituted to the Nagel family.
Church services
Services were held in the castle until 1952. These were later celebrated in the newly built Plankenstein parish church .
reconstruction
After the castle became increasingly dilapidated and partially collapsed, the Nagel family decided in 1975 to sell it to the architect Hans-Peter Trimbacher. With a trained team, Trimbacher managed to close the main roof and have it covered by October, thus protecting the brittle limestone walls from collapsing in good time before the onset of winter. Trimbacher invested at least 15 million schillings in the renovation and reconstruction. In 2008 the castle, which was open to guided tours and had 40 guest rooms in addition to various event rooms, was for sale for € 1.45 million.
Hotel operations
In 2010 the Viennese entrepreneur Erich Podstatny bought Burg Plankenstein in order to fulfill a childhood dream. The guest rooms have been fitted with the latest sanitary facilities and antique pieces from his private collection. Today you can spend the night inexpensively in the individually designed guest rooms and feel like a knight in the idyllic castle courtyard, the arcade courtyard, the former castle chapel or in one of the other event rooms.
Movie
- Old castles and their new masters in Lower Austria. Documentary, Austria, 2018, 24 Min, written and directed by. Barbara Baldauf, Camera: Ossi Denkmayr, Helmut Muttenthaler Production: ORF , Row: Experience Austria , first broadcast May 6, 2018 in ORF 2 , Summary of ORF, online- Video.
Web links
- Plankenstein Castle website
- Entry about Burg Plankenstein on Lower Austria Castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Plankenstein to Burgen-Austria
- Plank stone. In: Burgenkunde.at
- 360 ° photos of Plankenstein Castle
Individual evidence
- ^ Castle history. In: Burg Plankenstein , accessed on August 30, 2019.
- ↑ EPI - We move real estate. In: Burg Plankenstein , accessed on August 30, 2019.
- ↑ Knight's Room, Castle Room. In: Burg Plankenstein , accessed on August 30, 2019.
- ↑ Medieval Festival . In: Burg Plankenstein , accessed on August 30, 2019.