Castle on Leopoldsberg
| Castle on Leopoldsberg | ||
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 The neo-Gothic loggia on the east side of the castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Ka (h) lenberg castle | |
| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Preserved essential parts | |
| Place: | Vienna - Döbling | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 16 '41.1 " N , 16 ° 20' 47.6" E | |
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The castle on Leopoldsberg , formerly called "castle Ka (h) berg", is a hilltop castle on top of the eastern spur of the Vienna Woods , the Leopoldsberg in the 19th Vienna district Döbling . It was a princely castle of the Babenbergs and later the Habsburgs .
The castle and the inner castle area with the church on Leopoldsberg (Church of St. Leopold on Leopoldsberg, also "Leopoldikapelle") has been open to the public since June 2018. The site has been owned by Klosterneuburg Abbey since 1787 , from which it has been leased ever since.
history
The castle is believed to have been built in the 12th century. With the expansion of Laxenburg Palace by Albrecht III. after the Habsburgs took it over, the castle began to decline in 1377. In the course of the first Turkish siege in 1529, the castle was probably blown up, or at least largely destroyed. After a chapel, the church on Leopoldsberg , was rebuilt on the mountain plateau under Emperor Leopold I in 1679 , Emperor Karl VI. Around 1720 a castle was built on the site based on a design by Antonio Beduzzi . In 1786 the last remains of the medieval castle ("old building") were demolished. In 1787 the area and the buildings fell to the Augustinian Canons in the neighboring Klosterneuburg Monastery , who subsequently left it to various tenants to this day. In 1791 the castle burned down, but was restored and served as the residence of Belgian Field Marshal Charles Joseph de Ligne (1735–1814), who also had the Nasenweg built, from 1794 until his death.
Numerous memorial plaques have been attached to the castle over the years, see the list of plaques on Leopoldsberg . In 1948 the Homecoming Memorial was erected on the foundation of a tower .
Revitalization
For the time being, the last public use of the increasingly decaying building stock was operated by a restaurateur in the excursion restaurant "Burg Leopoldsberg" in one of the buildings. Operations were also discontinued in 2007 due to a lack of suitable infrastructure (sewer system). The new tenant, the architect Alexander Serda, planned a renovation and use with a wedding hotel and a restaurant and had the area cordoned off. For the church, which is not part of the lease, a servitude right was recorded for the monastery in order to enable it to be used for church events. First, a neighboring building that is to be used as a senior citizens' residence was renovated.
At the beginning of September 2014, the monastery announced that the renovation work on the castle area should begin in October. According to the plans, the work should take two years. Event rooms for baptisms and weddings in the church, a baroque garden and exhibition rooms, for example for cooperation with museums, were planned. Renovation of the church should take three to four months. According to an appointment made between the monastery and the tenant in May 2016, ceremonies and concerts should be able to take place in the church again by the end of 2017. For the following years it is planned to set up an archive and three exhibition rooms on the history of the Leopoldsberg in addition to the ballrooms and to make the entire complex freely accessible again. Since June 2018 you can visit the castle on Leopoldsberg again.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Leopoldsberg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- ↑ a b Castle on Leopoldsberg open again. In: wien.orf.at. July 21, 2018, accessed November 23, 2018 .
- ^ Wiener Zeitung : Trouble about the blocked Leopoldsberg ; Retrieved May 6, 2012.
- ↑ a b c Der Standard : Burg am Leopoldsberg is being renovated for reopening , May 11, 2016
- ^ Johann Jakob Heinrich Czikann, Franz Gräffer: Oesterreichische National-Encyklopädie ; Vienna 1835, vol. 3.
- ↑ Eva Wodarz-Eichner: Fools wisdom in priestly robes ; Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 9783831606603 .
- ↑ Otto H. Urban, among others: The Leopoldsberg: archaeological research on Vienna's local mountain ; Research Society of Vienna City Archeology 1999, ISBN 9783950049251 .
- ^ ORF : Leopoldsberg: construction start in October ; Retrieved September 17, 2014.
- ↑ orf.at: Sleeping Beauty at Leopoldsberg over? . Article from January 14, 2018, accessed on January 14, 2018.