Domaine Albrechtsfeld
The Domaine Albrechtsfeld is an agricultural estate near the Burgenland community of Andau , which is entered in the commercial register as "Domaine Albrechtsfeld GmbH" and is owned by the Heinzel family. Domaine Albrechtsfeld GmbH is part of the Heinzel Group . In 2011, the farm managed 1271 hectares of agricultural land , of which 298 hectares are leased .
history
The estate can look back on a long tradition as a typical Burgenland Meierhof . Until the first Turkish siege of Vienna in 1529, the place "Haberndorf" stood in its place . In the land register of the Hungarian Altenburg rulership there is an entry from 1546 as “desolate pasture land” or “Wismad”. In 1724 the property of the Hungarian Altenburg Crown Estate was sold to the House of Habsburg . Empress Maria Theresa inherited the estate from her father Charles VI when she ascended the throne . In 1765 the Empress gave the property to her daughter Marie Christine . In 1822, Archduke Charles inherited the property. Archduke Albrecht owned the estate from 1847 to 1896 , which eventually got his name. During this time the farm underwent a structural transformation. From the "Puszza farm" in the form of a sheep farm with little arable farming, an agricultural business with included dairy farming was created. The properties were geometrically rounded off . The farm had become a meierhof settlement with a total of three settlements. In 1872 the main courtyard had more than 138 residents, the so-called "Westhof" already had 41 employees. In 1894 the "Osthof" with 13 residents appeared for the first time. From 1902 a schoolhouse was available to the population of Albrechtsfeld.
With the collapse of the monarchy, the Albrechtsfeld estate was also lost to the Habsburgs. In 1918 the property was incorporated into the Halbturn property management company , from where it was sold to Carl Hugo Graf Seilern in 1926 , who incorporated it into the Swiss “Land and Trust Company” he founded in 1938. After the end of the Second World War, Albrechtsfeld was under compulsory administration as a foreign property. It was not until 1948 that it came back into private hands with "Alwa Güter- und Vermögensverwaltungs-Ges.mbH". The name "Alwa" was derived from the formerly associated companies Albrechtsfeld and Wasserburg . Ninety percent of Alwa belonged to Zurich-based Sullex AG, a subsidiary of Creditanstalt-Bankverein , and 10 percent was held by “Allgemeine Warentreuhand”. In February 1956, the Creditanstalt-Bankverein took over the shares of the subsidiary Sullex AG.
Albrechtsfeld experienced a renewed structural change in the 1960s and 1970s, when agricultural workers gradually migrated from the estate with increasing mechanization. In 1970 only 160 people worked at Gutshof Albrechtsfeld, ten years earlier there were around 400. In June 1955, an Albrechtsfeld football club called " ASKÖ Albrechtsfeld" entered Burgenland club football with the opening of its own football field, which had won the championship title in 1957 in the 2nd class A of the group north could be promoted to the next higher division. Up to 1962 a horse-drawn tram was in operation between St. Andrä and Albrechtsfeld, which originally led to the "Albert Casimir Meierhof" (also: "Kasimirhof", today: Albertkázmérpuszta in Hungary). Albrechtsfeld originally had an area of 1,380 hectares. 11 hectares of this were sold to employees in 1946 and 379 hectares of arable land including the Westhof in 1971 to the “Agricultural Settlement Fund for Burgenland”. In 1979 the company was converted into a stock corporation. Livestock farming was stopped in 1970. From 1980 to 2002, the "ALWA" Güter- und Vermögensverwaltungs Aktiengesellschaft Albrechtsfeld expanded into a rational, fully-engineered, modern and profit-oriented market fruit company that is managed according to ecological principles. Around 81% of the arable land could be artificially irrigated. From 2003 to 2005, agriculture in Albrechtsfeld was continued in this form by a manager and four farm workers.
With the takeover by the paper industrialist and former ÖIAG supervisory board chairman Alfred H. Heinzel in 2005, Albrechtsfeld experienced a realignment of its economic objectives. The company, which operates as "Domaine Albrechtsfeld GmbH", focused on organic production . The remains of the remaining settlement on the main courtyard, with the exception of the administration building, were demolished and a new building with an integrated courtyard for organic food raw material production was erected. Since February 2009 suckler with Aberdeen Angus operated -Rindern.
Architectural monuments
As the last remaining feature from the heyday of the Albrechtsfeld settlement by the farm workers of the estate, the listed water tower is now in the center of the former main courtyard. At that time, the water tower supplied the settlement with water from a nearby well. The structure, which was previously surrounded by trees, extends prism-shaped with beveled corners from a hexagonal foundation. The center of the tower is formed by a hexagonal pillar with a side length of about 45 cm. The upper part of the tower encloses the actual water tank and was only accessible via an outer ladder. At the top of the tower is a flat tent roof protruding over rafters with a slim ventilation lantern at the end. The structure consists of pure reinforced concrete, while the supporting pillars stand on sandstone bases.
See also
literature
- Herbert Brettl: From Albrechtsfeld to Ziegelhof - The Meierhöfe in the Neusiedl am See district, Königshof , 2009
- Manfred Wehdorn, Ute Georgeacopol-Winischofer: Monuments of technology and industry in Austria, Volume 1, Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland ; Vienna 1984
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Burgenland freedom, October 1, 1970; P. 20: ( Online )
- ^ Burgenland freedom, June 19, 1955; P. 7: ( Online )
- ↑ Manfred Wehdorn, Ute Georgeacopol-Winischofer: Monuments of technology and industry in Austria , Volume 1, Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland; Vienna 1984; P. 270.
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 39 ″ N , 17 ° 0 ′ 35 ″ E