Bisamberg Castle

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View of the castle from the southwest

The Bisamberg Castle is under monument protection standing former moated castle at the main street in the center of the market town Bisamberg ( Lower Austria ). The facades have a late Renaissance structure with early baroque additions.

history

In 1130 a Bisamberg rule was first mentioned in a document. Another document from the year 1203 proves that Prun (Bruno) de Puisenberg (Pisenberger) was given a farm yard and the associated vineyards by the Vormbach monastery. This manor of the Pisenbergs and subsequent families presumably already stood where the castle is today.

In 1568, the Catholic court vice chancellor Johann Baptist Weber acquired the village of Bisamberg including the Freihof and after the rule was taken over by his son of the same name in 1586, the old buildings were demolished and the palace was built in the Renaissance style. An engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1672 shows the three-storey Renaissance building with four attached corner turrets, surrounded by a moat and flanked by two bastions, which can be accessed via the stairs at the front and a drawbridge at the side.

After the male line of the Weber family died out , the property passed to Count Ernst von Abensperg and Traun in 1637 through the marriage of Katharina Freiin von Weber . From this marriage the daughter Margarete, born in 1649, came into the possession of the Bisamberg rule as Countess Strattmann in 1685.

After fire damage in 1661 and 1663, structural changes were made in the second half of the 17th century. Further changes followed at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. During a renovation in 1821 the moat was filled in and planted with fruit trees.

In front of the castle was an elongated building with a gate tower, in which the stately court and the prison cells were housed and which was demolished in 1848.

The castle garden on the street side and the bulk box in it were acquired by the market town of Bisamberg from 1985 to 1987 and the bulk box was converted into a multi-purpose event hall.

At the beginning of the 19th century there were major changes, with classical accents being set. In 1945 the building was completely looted. Floors, windows and door frames were burned and the roof destroyed. Bisamberg stayed with the Abensperg-Traun family until 1961 and was then transferred to Dipl.-Ing. Gottfried Petricek sold, who had it renovated. The castle is privately owned.

In the palace garden there is an old Roman column that was made available to the community by the Carnuntum Archaeological Park, and to the left of the entrance to the park is a modern sculpture "Venus von Bisamberg" made of Bisamberg sandstone, which was created in 1989 by the Viennese sculptor Wolfgang Krebs .

Building description

Outside

The central axis of the rectangular, elongated, three-storey structure is emphasized by coupled windows. A hipped tile roof completes the structure. At the corners are tower attachments that were later provided with curved tent roofs . The facade has a uniform late renaissance structure through cordon bands and strong corner stones . After 1667, it was supplemented with an early Baroque plaster board structure on the entrance front and is completed by a cornice on volute consoles . In the central axis is a mighty arched portal marked 1568 with a classicist double wing door. At the beginning of the 19th century, a classicist arbor was built on double pillars. Above the balcony is a cast iron plaque composed of several parts with a building inscription from 1568.

In the central axis of the garden front is a chapel built in front. It is built over a gable-like roofed substructure and has a round arch portal on the ground floor.

Inside

All three floors are connected by a three-flight staircase and have continuous central hallways. In the stairwell there is a partially exposed, originally late Baroque decorative painting from the first half of the 18th century. On the second floor there is a three-axis, continuous ballroom that is parallel to the central corridor.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ The dates are taken from the history of the castle on the website of the municipality Bisamberg and in some cases differ from those mentioned in the Dehio .
  2. ↑ Dehio only mentions the year 1662

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The castle on the website of the Bisamberg community , accessed on February 15, 2016
  2. ^ Website of the artist , accessed on February 16, 2016

Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 51.7 "  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 46.6"  E