Rectory (Altpölla)
The Parsonage (also: Dechanthof ) opposite the Parish Altpölla in Lower Austria is a listed Vicarage the Renaissance from the second half of the 16th century with a walled garden Vicarage. The facility is owned by the Altpölla parish and is not open to the public.
Exterior construction
The L-shaped Dechanthof has a Baroque south wing from around 1690 and a granary , which was probably added at the end of the 17th century. It is accessible through a renaissance rustikaportal and a side gate. The windows have baroque window baskets. There are walled-in arcades on the south side of the courtyard .
inner space
The interior is covered on the ground floor with groin vaults from the 16th century. On the upper floor there is a ballroom with stucco decoration and a gold-plated double-headed eagle from around 1700, which was probably designed by employees of the Aliprandi family of plasterers. The originally free cartouche fields contain works by the painter Wolfgang Köberl from 1955. The parsonage has late Gothic figures of St. Mary and St. John the Evangelist from around 1490 in safekeeping. Further furnishings include a figure of Mary with Child from the mid-17th century and a figure of Saint Rosalia from the end of the 17th century.
garden
The rectory garden is surrounded by a wall. It was redesigned in baroque style by pastor Johann Ignaz von Pergen between 1754 and 1758. It received its present size from the pastor Franz Xaver Mohr, who died in 1808. The structure of the garden described by Franz Xaver Schweickhardt in 1839, the former glass house and two corner towers have been lost over time. The surrounding wall, the pond, a circular hornbeam arbor and two of the original four corner towers have been preserved. The corner towers from the 16th century have stone-clad windows and originally both had pyramid roofs .
According to its original purpose, the complex is still used today as an ornamental and kitchen garden .
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , p. 40.
- Eva Berger : Historic gardens of Austria: Lower Austria, Burgenland . Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-20599-305-6 . P. 100f.
Coordinates: 48 ° 37 ′ 28.3 " N , 15 ° 27 ′ 56.3" E