Edelhof manor

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Edelhof

The farm Edelhof is a former farmyard of the pin Zwettl . With the exception of the buildings from the 1970s, the complex is a listed building . The Edelhof is located in the cadastral community of the same name southeast of the monastery and today houses an agricultural college .

history

In a document from 1147 the noble farm is mentioned as "grangia vel curia in Erlech". Originally it was managed by monks and later leased to subjects of the monastery. After a fire, it was rebuilt between 1688 and 1690. Before 1787 it was redesigned as a recreation center for the members of the Cistercian monastery . In 1787 the monastery sold the manor to farmers who expanded it into a row-like settlement with small houses. Since 1873 it has been owned by the Province of Lower Austria . In the same year an agriculture school (today: agricultural college) was opened there. The former small houses have since been torn down and replaced by school and farm buildings.

description

The large-scale complex, which has been rebuilt several times, is surrounded by a low garden wall with three corner towers, which originally had a defensive function. The garden portal on the south side, built towards the end of the 17th century, has lateral pillars with pyramid roofs and crowning pine cones .

The elongated, two-storey south wing was built around 1690 and expanded around 1787. Projecting to the west is a 1690 St. Chapel consecrated to Nikolaus, Antonius and Josef, the facade of which is divided into cassette shapes with flat plaster decor. The rectangular interior of the chapel has a straight end and four-bay groin vaults over transverse oval pillars. The remaining rooms in the south wing have flat roofs. The L-shaped adjoining west wing, the core of which also dates from 1690, was partially converted into a three-story boarding school building in 1929. A former bulk box from the same construction period, which was restored in 1968, is connected to the west wing . This is three-story and has rectangular storage windows on the two upper floors. Its facade is structured by crossed plaster strips .

In the northwest corner of the complex rises a round tower from around 1690 with a conical roof and flat plaster decoration. In front of this are the former stables with wide arched openings to the courtyard. The school building and the teacher's house are attached to the south wing in the west. This L-shaped, three-story building was built in 1949–1950. The boarding school building in the north-west corner of the garden is a free-standing, five-storey central building. An octagonal floor are placed four upper floors over a smaller, also octagonal.

literature

  • DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , p. 145.
  • Eva Berger: Historic gardens of Austria: Lower Austria, Burgenland . In: Historical Gardens of Austria: Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930 . tape 1 . Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-205-99305-6 , pp. 166-167 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '20.7 "  N , 15 ° 13' 17.2"  E