Gmünd Castle

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Gmünd Castle on the town square
patio
Castle park with pond

The Gmünd Castle stands in the southwest corner of the old quadrangle in the municipality of Gmünd in the district of Gmünd in Lower Austria . The castle is under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

The castle was founded under Hadmar II von Kuenring and mentioned in a document in 1217. The original city ​​castle at the southwest corner point of the city fortifications was built around 1300 as a four-tower castle. From 1262 to 1418 in the possession of the Liechtenstein family , from 1418 to 1484 the castle passed to the noble family Puchheim . Structural renovations were carried out after a fire in 1473. The castle was pledged to the Lords of Greiß in 1518 as sovereign property and sold in 1585. Expansion of the castle began in 1518. After 1601 the castle changed hands frequently. In the 17th century, with the construction of the north wing, a closed four-wing complex was created. From 1859 the castle belonged to Habsburg-Lothringen .

architecture

The essentially Romanesque building was rebuilt in the 15th and 16th centuries into a three-storey four-wing building on a trapezoidal floor plan with a gate tower and a keep in the southwest. The castle is surrounded by an English park. The originally defensive marshes in the south of the castle were drained in 1895.

literature

  • Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes, Hartleben Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1925, II, p. 59 f.
  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Gmünd, castle, farmyard in the northeast, castle park with a former palm house facing Schloßparkgasse. Pp. 276-277.
  • 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. 167 f.
  • Franz Eppel : The Waldviertel . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1966, p. 109 f.
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages, floor plan dictionary, supplementary volume . Berlin 1999, p. 35.
  • Georg Clam-Martinic : Österreichisches Burgenlexikon , Linz 1992, ISBN 9783902397508 , p. 124.
  • 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. 22 ff.
  • Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3705605305 , p. 131 f.
  • Gerhard Stenzel : From castle to castle in Austria. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1973, ISBN 321800229X , p. 178.
  • Georg Matthäus Vischer : Topographia Archiducatus Austriae Inferioris Modernae 1672. Reprint Graz 1976 VOMB, No. 34.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online at Austria Forum

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 20.6 "  N , 14 ° 58 ′ 56.2"  E