Ernegg Castle

Ernegg Castle
	Ernegg Castle, Steinakirchen am Forst
Creation time :	16th Century
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Steinakirchen am Forst
Geographical location	48 ° 3 '55 " N , 15 ° 3' 55" E Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '55 " N , 15 ° 3' 55" E
Height:	318 m

The Schloss Ernegg is located in the cadastral Ernegg the Lower Austrian market town Steinakirchen am Forst . The castle is used as a hotel and is located at Ernegg 1 .

history

At first there was a castle belonging to the Hofmark Steinakirchen of the Bishop of Regensburg on the site of the castle in the hamlet of Ernegg . In the 16th century, a four-sided castle with a protruding corner tower and an arcade courtyard with a protruding stair tower was built on the castle plateau with a steep embankment to the Kleine Erlauf . From 1527 the builders were Wolfgang von Öder zu Götzendorf and his descendants, from 1596 Reichard Streun von Schwarzenau . The castle has been owned by the Counts of Auersperg from 1656 until today .

Castle complex

Arcade courtyard with stepping round tower

The four-sided three-storey building with a hipped roof and some with dormers has the main entrance with a round arch to the west, the facades are different and mostly irregularly structured depending on the construction time. In the south-western corner, the chapel projects to the south and is closed off by a round tower. The chapel with groin vault is mentioned in a document in 1330 and was consecrated to St. Bartholomew in 1675 . The inner courtyard is at an oblique angle and has three-story arcades on three sides with pseudo-architectural wall paintings and a south-western staircase. There are no porticos on the north side and a stair tower is presented on the inner courtyard facade.

Landscaped garden

To the west of the castle is a landscape garden from the 19th century with an access avenue with spruce trees. An obelisk commemorates Joseph Graf von Auersperg, who died in the Battle of Austerlitz .

literature

Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria south of the Danube. Part 2. M to Z. Bundesdenkmalamt, Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , pages 2279f.
Gerhard Stenzel: From castle to castle in Austria . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-218-00288-5 , p. 172.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Ernegg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry about Schloss Ernegg on NÖ-Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
Entry via Schloss Ernegg on Burgen-Austria
Official website: Ernegg Castle

Individual evidence

↑ The history of Ernegg Castle. In: schlossernegg.at. Accessed August 30, 2020 .
↑ BARON NEWALL ( Burke's Peerage & Baronetage 2003) : Hon. David Newall (* 1963), g. 1998 Georgina Lee, 2nd daughter of Countess Hilda-Maria von Auersperg and Peter Lennox Lee († 1996)
↑ www.almanachdegotha.org

[1] The history of Ernegg Castle. In: schlossernegg.at. Accessed August 30, 2020 .

[2] BARON NEWALL ( Burke's Peerage & Baronetage 2003) : Hon. David Newall (* 1963), g. 1998 Georgina Lee, 2nd daughter of Countess Hilda-Maria von Auersperg and Peter Lennox Lee († 1996)

[3] www.almanachdegotha.org