Engelstein Castle
Engelstein Castle is a hill castle in the west of Engelstein in the market town of Großschönau in the Gmünd district in Lower Austria . The castle is under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
At first the castle belonged to the Kuenringers . Then the castle was a fiefdom of the Lords of Walsee . Probably on the site of a former watchtower at a street crossing, construction of the castle began after the destruction of Harmannstein Castle around 1300.
architecture
The castle is protected on three sides by ponds. The main castle with a keep stands above a bailey and a farm yard.
literature
- Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes. Vienna / Leipzig 1925, II, p. 83.
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . P. 193–195 (Engelstein, castle in the west of the village, wayside chapel in the west of the village).
- Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber : Castles - Waldviertel, Wachau, Moravian Thayatal . 2nd edition, Verlag Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , p. 181 ff.
- Franz Eppel : The Waldviertel . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1978, p. 101.
- Georg Clam-Martinic : Österreichisches Burgenlexikon , Linz 1992, ISBN 9783902397508 , p. 118.
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages, floor plan dictionary . Würzburg 1994, p. 173.
- Laurin Luchner: castles in Austria I . Beck, Munich 1978, ISBN 3406045073 , p. 217 f.
- Walter Pongratz , Gerhard Seebach : Castles and palaces Litschau - Zwettl - Ottenschlag - Weitra. Lower Austria's castles and palaces III / 1 (birch row) . Vienna 1971, ISBN 3850300072 , p. 16 ff.
- Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3705605305 , p. 140 ff.
- Gerhard Stenzel : From castle to castle in Austria. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1973, ISBN 321800229X , p. 171.
- Georg Matthäus Vischer : Topographia Archiducatus Austriae Inferioris Modernae 1672. Reprint Graz 1976 VOMB, No. 24.
Web links
Commons : Engelstein Castle - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Entry via Engelstein Castle to Burgen-Austria
- Entry on Engelstein Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry about Engelstein Castle on Lower Austria Castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Engelstein Castle at wehrbauten.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Online at Austria Forum
Coordinates: 48 ° 38 ′ 26 " N , 14 ° 56 ′ 37.3" E