Alt-Prerau estate

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Alt-Prerau estate
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The Alt-Prerau estate , also known as Alt-Prerau Castle , is located in the Wildendürnbach community in the Mistelbach district in Lower Austria .

location

The manor stands northeast of Laa an der Thaya in the Laa Plain near the state border with the Czech Republic . The residential building of the estate is designed like a castle and there was formerly a baroque garden to the north .

history

The associated village of Alt-Prerau was described as abandoned in 1568, only the former estate was preserved. Documented in 1591 in the possession of Baron Seyfried von Breuner . In 1755 the estate went to the Suttner family . In 1809 the estate was looted by the Fifth Coalition War. After several changes of ownership, Julius Meinl acquired the estate in 1932 , expanded it and built a canning and can factory and in 1940 also a slaughterhouse. The manager of the property at the time acquired the property in 1944, but was not able to repair the war damage afterwards and has only used the arable land since then.

Origin of name: The place was mentioned as Breraw as early as 1378 , from Slavic prerov "ditch".

architecture

The castle is an L-shaped two-storey complex with a simple facade with corner squaring and plastering flaps around rectangular windows and hipped roofs with dormers. The entrance is vaulted and contains a Renaissance washbasin made of Salzburg marble. The manor also has a room with a groin vault with plastered ridges on a mighty central pillar.

The Meierhof next to the manor has two-storey service wings around a wide square courtyard with a simple plaster structure from the 19th century.

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  1. ↑ Elisabeth Schuster: The Etymology of Lower Austrian Place Names, Part 1, 1989

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 51.1 ″  N , 16 ° 28 ′ 30.5 ″  E