Neuaigen (Tulln municipality)

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Neuaigen ( village )
locality
cadastral community Neuaigen
Neuaigen (municipality of Tulln) (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Tulln  (TU), Lower Austria
Pole. local community Tulln
Coordinates 48 ° 21 '55 "  N , 16 ° 1' 17"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '55 "  N , 16 ° 1' 17"  Ef1
height 178  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 497 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG 11.34 km²
Post Code 3430f1
prefix + 43/02272f1
Statistical identification
Locality code 06310
Cadastral parish number 20157
Counting district / district Neuaigen (32 135 020)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS
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Neuaigen is a village in the southwestern Weinviertel and cadastral community , locality and counting district of the municipality of Tulln in the Tulln district in Lower Austria . The place is north of the Danube about 5 km northwest of Tulln.

history

The rulership of Neuaigen was first mentioned in a document in 1277 as "neven Aygen" and could have been a fiefdom of the Diocese of Passau . Where Neuaigen Castle is today, there was already a fortified complex, which was probably built by Laurenz Freiherr von Hofkirchen. Hofkirchen was in 1494 by the Roman-German King Maximilian I invested with the rule. After the destruction in the Thirty Years' War , Georg Andre Freiherr von Hofkirchen (1562–1623) built a new building. However, the Hofkirchner lost their goods as Protestants . Count Karl von Harrach and later Katharina von Herberstein , but also Johann Joachim Ehrenreuter and Johann Peter Freiherr von Verdenberg were mentioned as the new owners of Neuaigen. In 1685 Neuaigen came to Johann Ferdinand Count Enckevoirt and in 1746 to Count Breuner through marriage. Under the Counts of Breuner-Enckevoirt, who were wealthy in Grafenegg and Asparn an der Zaya , the Breuner estates in the area were administered from Neuaigen until 1848.

After the male line of Count Breuner died out, their property fell in 1894 to a daughter who was married to the Silesian Duke of Ratibor and Prince of Corvey Victor II Amadeus . Since then, the castle, like Schloss Grafenegg and Schloss Asparn , has remained in the possession of the House of Ratibor , a branch line of the House of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst , which later assumed the name Metternich-Sandor through adoption . After the Second World War , the castle was occupied by the Red Army until 1955 . During this time valuable interiors were destroyed and looted. Back in the possession of the Ratibor-Metternich-Sandor family, the castle was extensively renovated in 1970 and is now the family home.

Neuaigen Castle

Southeast view of Neuaigen Castle

A previous building was erected around 1494. At the beginning of the 17th century it was rebuilt in the late Renaissance style and changed to Baroque style in the 18th century . The building is broadly supported with two storeys. On the south front, a mighty, slightly protruding square gate tower rises in the middle to which two five-axis tracts adjoin, which in turn are adjoined by the side wings. The facade and the gable walls are richly structured and decorated with numerous figures and ornaments. The four wings of the castle enclose a spacious farm yard. In the north-east corner of the courtyard, a transit hall leads into the park and the utility area. In front of the south facade are four sandstone busts from the middle of the 18th century. A forest lane leads from the main entrance to the Danube. The castle now serves as a residential building and is therefore not open to the public.

Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary

Southeast view of the parish church

A Gothic building from the first half of the 14th century, with the nave and the rectangular choir rebuilt in the Baroque period (1738/40) and a bell storey added to the square tower presented.

The baroque high altar with pillars and pilasters was made by Johann Tribner in 1750/51 . The organ is a work by Johann M. Kauffmann from 1894.

Web links

Commons : Neuaigen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2010, 2nd unchanged edition, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , p. 769.