Fronsburg Castle
| Fronsburg Castle | ||
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 Fronsburg Castle |
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| Creation time : | around 1230 | |
| Conservation status: | Received or received substantial parts | |
| Standing position : | Ministerials | |
| Place: | Weitersfeld | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 48 '10 " N , 15 ° 48' 38" E | |
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Fronsburg Castle is located north of Weitersfeld in Fronsburg ( Horn district ) in the Waldviertel . The privately owned castle is irregularly shaped with two courtyards and a Gothic chapel . It serves as the headquarters of the Fronsburg forestry operations and is not open to the public.
history
A Hadmar von Freundesperch, a ministerial of the Counts of Hardegg , was first mentioned in Fronsburg in 1230. In 1281 Winther von Vriuntsperch and the brothers Leutwin and Leo von Vreuntsperch were named in a foundation book of the St. Bernhard monastery. Since 1300 there have been frequent changes of ownership. During the Hussite Wars Fronsburg was conquered and destroyed.
In 1448 the brothers Oswald and Stephan von Eyczing received the property from Michael Graf Hardegg, but on the condition that the fiefdom be revived after the family died out.
In 1569, Christoph Lampl bought Fronsburg Castle and Estate from Count Sigismund zu Hardegg and obtained improvements to the old gender coat of arms with the title Lampl Edler Herr zu Fronsburg from Emperor Rudolf II.
In 1739 Franz Rainald / Reinhold Graf von Andlern sold the castle, which had meanwhile been converted into a Renaissance palace, to the Khevenhüller family . Since Hardegg Castle was already in ruins at the time and Riegersburg Castle was used for representation, the Khevenhüller moved their estate management and the regional court here in 1776 . The family crypt was built under the castle chapel. But since this did not suit the future Prince Carl von Khevenhüller-Metsch, he had Hardegg Castle rebuilt and another family crypt built under the castle chapel, in which he is also buried. In the 20th century, Fronsburg Castle was inherited by the Barons von dem Bongart, who came from Westphalia .
Surroundings
Not far from Fronsburg Castle is the Fronsburger Bründl with a carved Stalingrad Madonna in the Bründl Chapel.
To neighboring castles and palaces include Castle Schrattenthal that ruin Neudegg in Pulkau , Castle Therasburg , Castle Niederfladnitz and Riegersburg .
literature
- Georg Clam Martinic : "Österreichisches Burgenlexikon", Landesverlag Linz 1991/1994, ISBN 3-85214-559-7 .
- Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria north of the Danube. Therasburg Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 .
Web links
- Entry on Fronsburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry about Fronsburg Castle in Lower Austria Castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Fronsburg to Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franz Karl Wißgrill , Karl von Oldelga: scene of the land-based Lower Austrian nobility from the lordship and knighthood of the XI. Century on, except for the present , Volume 5, Verlag Christian Friedrich Wappler, Vienna, 1804, p. 418