Kellerschlössl Dürnstein
| Kellerschlössl Dürnstein | ||
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| Creation time : | 1719 | |
| Place: | Dürnstein | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 23 '36.8 " N , 15 ° 31' 40.3" E | |
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The Kellerschlössl Dürnstein is a listed castle in the municipality of Dürnstein in the Krems-Land district in Lower Austria .
history
Since 1693, the Dürnstein canons owned wine cellars outside the city gates. Probst Hieronymus Übelbacher had the baroque cellar castle built over one of the cellar exits by 1719. It was built by the Tyrolean master mason Gabriel Oedl based on preliminary designs by Jakob Prandtauer . The small building was not intended for permanent living. It was primarily used for representation and socializing.
In 1788 the Canons' Monastery was secularized . Two years later, the Princes of Starhemberg acquired the monastery wineries with the Kellerschlössl. Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg sold the domain in 1938 to the newly founded winegrowers' cooperative "Wachau" (now Domain Wachau ), to which it still belongs.
description
The small baroque pleasure palace is located southeast of Dürnstein in the midst of the vineyards above the deep vaulted cellar rooms. It is a two-storey building with a cross-shaped floor plan. In the gable there is a sundial with a wall painting showing a map. The people depicted are probably the client, the architect, the painter and the landlord. A terrace has been built to the west, the balustrade of which was decorated with putti in the first quarter of the 18th century .
The rooms on the ground floor are vaulted with a groin and barrel cap. The artistic design of the building is a glorification of the Wachau wine and viticulture. In the square central hall on the main floor, Bacchus is paid homage.
The fresco of the eastern cabinet shows the four elements on the broad sides, the lion and eagle, the heraldic animals of Übelbacher, on the narrow sides. In the western adjoining room you can see the four seasons on the edge of a putti sky, into which hunting motifs are woven. The Schlössl houses a rich collection of baroque engravings.
Others
The Federal Chancellor Leopold Figl is said to have had a key to the Weinschlössl and the wine cellar of the Wachau winegrowers' cooperative underneath and also used it frequently in the course of the state treaty negotiations.
literature
- Franz Eppel : The Wachau . Salzburg 1975, p. 76 f
- BM Buchmann / B. Fassbinder: Castles and palaces between Krems, Hartenstein and Jauerling , 1990
- Dehio - Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990
Web links
- Entry via Dürnstein - Kellerschlössl on Burgen-Austria
- Kellerschlössl near the Wachau domain
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b See entry about Dürnstein - Kellerschlössl on Burgen-Austria