Ginselberg Castle

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Back of Ginselberg Castle before the renovation in 2006 in poor condition
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The Ginselberg Castle , also lock Schönfeldt , stands on a small slope terrace above a tuff fracture in Erlauftal bit away southwest of the Werksiedlung Neustift in the municipality of Scheibbs in District Scheibbs in Lower Austria .

history

In the beginning there was a hammer at the quarter . It was there that a mirror factory was founded in 1828, which was converted into a castle in 1863 . A chapel was set up in 1881, but it has been abandoned.

The Schönfeldt family

In 1827 Ignaz and Anton Dittrich built a large mirror factory, more precisely a grinding and slip factory. 54 people were employed, the raw glass was obtained from the Bohemian Forest and the finished mirrors were sold as far as the Levant . There were also some smaller plants for iron, leather and plaster processing in the vicinity. In 1853 the factory passed to Andreas and Sophie Ziegler, in 1857 to Alexius and Josephine von Wettstein and in 1859 to Constantin Gilani. In 1863 Anton Graf Schönfeldt († 1900) bought the property and converted and expanded the building into a “Count's Palace”. In addition, large basic purchases were made in the area. The castle chapel was built in 1881. Heinrich Graf Schönfeldt , racing driver and driver of the world's first tank, was born in 1884 at Ginselberg Castle and lived there until his death in 1963. After his death, it became increasingly neglected and was only renovated in 2009/10. The current owner is Carl Ludwig Schönfeldt, whose family now lives in South America.

architecture

Ginselberg Castle around 1900

The broad complex has a central and side elevation. The unadorned two-storey building under a hipped roof appears through cubature and symmetry, partly open on the ground floor with arched arbors. Inside the building, the rooms have flat ceilings.

Castle pension, home for the blind, Buddhist center

In 1935 Schönfeldt set up a castle pension in an outbuilding, presumably for economic reasons. After Schönfeldt's death, a home for the blind was set up there. With the founding of the Buddhist Center Scheibbs in 1975 as one of the oldest Buddhist institutions in the German-speaking area, the building found a new use.

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Scheibbs, community area, Ginselberg, Ginselberg Castle, Ginselberg No. 15, p. 2115.
  • Gerhard Stenzel: From castle to castle in Austria . Kremayr & Scheriau publishing house. Vienna 1976

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Niederösterreichischer Dominien-Schematismus for the year ... A handbook of the entire personnel status of all Dominien in Austria under the Ens (etc.) . Mechitaristen, 1842 ( google.at [accessed October 28, 2018]).
  2. ^ Illustrirte Zeitung: Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, New York . Weber, 1845 ( google.at [accessed October 28, 2018]).
  3. ^ City of Scheibbs: Schönfeldt Castle. Retrieved October 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ meinelocation.at - Ginselberg Castle / Eventlocation. Retrieved October 28, 2018 (German).

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 19 ″  N , 15 ° 9 ′ 48.7 ″  E