Teutonic Order Castle Gumpoldskirchen
The Gumpoldskirchen Castle is an accommodation company and a seminar hotel in the wine village of Gumpoldskirchen .
The castle dominates the market town on the church square with the Michael church next to it in an elevated position.
history
An older fortification system with two fortification towers are part of a baroque, irregular, four-winged palace complex. Part of a fortification was donated to the Teutonic Order by Friedrich II in 1241 . The castle was renewed in 1931 through renovations and additions. In the course of the annexation of Austria to Hitler's Germany in 1938 the castle became a research institute for viticulture and was called the First Reichsweingut . In 1945 war damage occurred and in 1946 it was returned to church property and used as a retirement home until 1985 . After a comprehensive general renovation between 1998 and 1999, the castle was used as a guest house by the Teutonic Order. Ladislaus Edmund Batthyány-Strattmann has been the leaseholder since 2017.
literature
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Lower Austria south of the Danube , Part 1: A to L (= Dehio-Handbuch , series Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs. Topographisches Denkmälerinventar ). Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , pp. 616f.
Web links
- Entry above Teutonic Order Castle Gumpoldskirchen on Burgen-Austria
- Gumpoldskirchen Castle - live, hold meetings and celebrate
- Gumpoldskirchen Castle on the Teutonic Order's website
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 44.8 " N , 16 ° 16 ′ 26.7" E