Gainfarn Castle
The Gainfarn Castle is a castle in the Bad Vöslauer cadastral community of Gainfarn . The castle, which now houses the music school of Bad Vöslau, has a very similar development and ownership history as in the neighboring Großau located castle Merkenstein because the goods Gainfarn and Cristian were together a long time.
While it was in the Salbuch already in 1206 Klosterneuburg Abbey a Rudwinus of Gainfarn mentioned. The location of his seat, the so-called Feste Haus , is not known. The Hohenbergers who owned the Gainfarn estate moved their headquarters to Merkenstein Castle as early as 1448 . In any case, the castle that still exists today is much younger.
When Merkenstein Castle was destroyed in the course of the second Turkish siege , the seat of power was moved back to Gainfarn. Both the village and the Gainfarn Castle were owned by the Dietrichsteiners from 1675, including during the Turkish siege, until 1829 . Even before the change of ownership, the castle was converted to its present-day appearance by Joseph Carl von Dietrichstein , the first governor of the privileged Austrian National Bank . In 1816 he had the main wing rebuilt in its classical form.
In 1829 Joachim Eduard Graf Münch-Bellinghausen acquired the two goods Gainfarn and Großau with Merkenstein. After his death, this castle was also inherited in 1866 by Baron Adolph von Brenner-Felsach . In turn, he bequeathed it to his son Joachim von Brenner-Felsach , who became known for his world trips and the photos he took that are exhibited in today's Museum of Ethnology in Vienna. From 1897 to 1901 Hugo von Hofmannsthal was a frequently seen guest at the castle.
In 1911, Brenner-Felsach sold the castle and its possessions to the sawmill owner Leopold Kern, who owned it until 1917. The industrialist Arthur Krupp from Berndorf bought it from him at the same time as Gut Merkenstein . He made it available as a military hospital in the last year of the First World War .
When after the Second World War all of the Krupp family's possessions were confiscated as German property by the Soviet occupying forces , the Gainfarn Palace and Estate also fell under the administration of USIA . During this time the castle fell into disrepair. According to the state treaty , ownership fell to the Republic of Austria and thus to the federal forests . In addition to the existing forest schools in Bruck an der Mur and Gmunden, a forest school in Waidhofen an der Ybbs and now in Gainfarn was established by the Federal Forests . With the reorganization of the entire Austrian school system, a higher department with a high school diploma was set up for forest ranger training in 1972 . An apiculture institute was also rented for a time.
At the turn of the millennium this school was closed. Most of the forest holdings of 5,000 hectares were sold earlier.
In 2001 the municipality of Bad Vöslau acquired the castle. The renovated and adapted castle has since been home to the Bad Vöslau music school .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Retrieved on March 21, 2009 from the Forstlehranstalt zur Höhere Bundeslehranstalt für Forstwirtschaft HBLA für Forstwirtschaft Bruck an der Mur
Web links
- Entry via Gainfarn Castle to Burgen-Austria
- The long way to your own music school building Bad Vöslau Music School
Coordinates: 47 ° 57 ′ 51 ″ N , 16 ° 12 ′ 21 ″ E