Freiland (municipality of Türnitz)

Freiland railway station (2015)

a MÁVAG type 70 in the field (2008)

the Traisen on the southern outskirts (2014)

Freiland is a place in the municipality of Türnitz in the Lilienfeld district in Lower Austria .

geography

The scattered settlement around several functional buildings is located in the Mostviertel in the upper Traisental , which drains north to the Danube , at an altitude of 400  m above sea level. A. Its location at the confluence with the Unrechttraisen makes it a traffic junction.

history

The open-air farm, which no longer exists today, is mentioned in a document in 1321 as the farm of the "Frylanters". This farm was acquired in 1820 by Johann Fruhwirth, who ran a large ironworks nearby, which in its heyday (1840–1870) employed up to 600 workers and produced rifles, bayonets and sabers. On the site of the Freilandhof, Freiland Castle was built in 1852 by the Fruhwirth family of manufacturers . With the introduction of Werndl rifles in the Austrian army , production was reduced and ultimately abandoned; From then on, Fruhwirth dedicated itself to products made of wood.

Prince Franz I von Liechtenstein acquired the factory in 1931 and the castle in 1942. During the Second World War , a school for wounded SS members was set up in the castle. It has suffered considerable damage from looting in the last days of the war and the Russian occupiers.

From 1948 onwards, Freiland Castle was available to the War Victims Association, which set up a rest home for children of war victims here. The castle initially offered space for 250 children and was later expanded to accommodate 400 children. From the 1970s the home was run under the name Friedrich Karrerhaus , a recreation center for war victims and the disabled . Today it is a recreation hotel with seminars.

Another attraction in the village is the field and industrial railway museum Freiland , a collection of rail-bound vehicles in small gauges, with some days also being driven.

traffic

• In road traffic, Freiland is accessible through the federal highways B20 , which is called Mariazeller Straße there and Hohenberger Straße (B 214).
• Freiland used to be a railway junction. From the Traisen – Kernhof railway line, the Freiland – Türnitz railway, which was closed in 2001 and has since been dismantled, branched off there . The former route is now covered by a cycle path.

Web links

Commons : Freiland (Türnitz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on schloss-freiland.at 
2. ^ Field and Industrial Railway Museum Freiland

Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 36.7 ″  N , 15 ° 34 ′ 6.6 ″  E