Batthyány Castle (Trautmannsdorf)
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| Creation time : | around 1810 | |
| Conservation status: | Renovated | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 1 '19 " N , 16 ° 38' 27.8" E | |
| Height: | 167 m above sea level A. | |
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Batthyány Castle , also known as Trautmannsdorf Castle , is located in Trautmannsdorf an der Leitha in Lower Austria . The extensive, three-winged complex in the east of the village is surrounded by an extensive palace park with remains of the moat and wall. The castle is a listed building .
history
The name Trautmannsdorf refers to a Trutman who served under the Babenbergers , bought Grund here from the Göttweig Monastery around 1100 and probably built a permanent house . In the 12th and 13th centuries, Trautmannsdorf was a link in the chain of fortifications against the Hungarians . The castle as such is first mentioned in 1292. During the Kuruzzen incursions and in the Turkish Wars , the castle was largely spared, as the complex was very well fortified and armed. From 1576 to 1756 the castle and the manor were owned by Windisch-Graetz . The castle chapel was a Protestant center in eastern Lower Austria under the Protestant but loyal baron Friederich von Windischgraetz.
Karl Joseph Count Batthyány acquired the rule in 1756. After 1810, Prince Philipp Batthyány had the old buildings removed and a classicist castle built. As a builder is Joseph Kornhäusel suspected. When the revolution in Hungary was put down in 1849, it served as a military hospital for wounded soldiers. After the death of the childless Prince Philip in 1870, the decline continued. A sanatorium for lung patients was briefly set up in the vacant castle and the land was leased. The castle had stood empty since the interwar period and was left to decay. In 2014 it was bought by a real estate developer from Vienna in order to renovate it and give it a new use. This project is controversial.
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria (south of the Danube) Part 2 MZ: The art monuments of Austria. Verlag Berger , Horn / Vienna, 2003, pp. 2383f., ISBN 978-3-85028-365-6
Web links
- Entry via Trautmannsdorf to Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ see burgen-austria.com
- ^ ORF-Online: Trautmannsdorf Castle is being renovated ; Retrieved October 18, 2014
- ↑ Trautmannsdorf Castle - plans provoke resistance . In mein district.at , June 3, 2019, accessed on July 4, 2019
- ↑ Citizens' Initiative Our Trautmannsdorf , accessed on July 4, 2019.