Dürnkrut Castle

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Dürnkrut Castle

The Dürnkrut Castle is in the market town of Dürnkrut in the eastern Weinviertel in Lower Austria .

history

In the 14th century Dürnkrut belonged to the sovereign rule Orth . After several changes of ownership, the lordship passed to the Lords of Landau who built a permanent castle . In 1622 Rudolf von Teuffenbach acquired the castle and the manor and had the early baroque castle chapel fitted out. In 1696 the Scottish nobleman Jakob von Hamilton bought the castle and had it rebuilt in the Baroque style. After the Hamiltons died out, Count Franz Joseph Koháry bought the castle in 1778. With the marriage of his daughter Maria Antonia to Ferdinand Georg von Sachsen-Coburg , it falls to the House of Sachsen-Coburg-Koháry , which has the tower redesigned in a historical way. In 1985, the market town of Dürnkrut acquired the castle and set up parts of it as a municipal office.

construction

East view of the castle

Dürnkrut Castle is a four-wing building with a dominating gate tower, which is located on a hill in the center of the village. The two-story renaissance building around a square courtyard is surrounded by bastions with round bastions. A ramp leads to a partially preserved ditch. To the west of the castle is a symmetrically designed Meierhof from the 17th century, of which only the two-storey south wing has survived. The gate is dominated by a balcony supported by two atlases. The coat of arms of the Hamilton family above the gate. On the balustrade of the balcony the coat of arms of the Sachsen-Coburg family, who also had the tower rebuilt in the style of romantic historicism. The entrance hall under the tower shows a stucco relief of Hercules with the Nemean lion in rich stucco framing from the Hamilton period around 1700. The castle chapel from the early 17th century is richly stuccoed and shows five paintings in the Marouflage technique.

  • Castle with Meierhof

  • Portal Dürnkrut Castle

  • The Hamilton family coat of arms above the gate

literature

  • Rudolf Büttner: Castles and palaces from Marchfeld to Falkenstein. Birch series, Vienna 1982, 84 ff.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Dürnkrut  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.duernkrut.gv.at
  2. ↑ http://members.aon.at/herbert-preisl/page_7_2.html

Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '24 "  N , 16 ° 50' 55.9"  E