Gobelsburg Castle

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Gobelsburg Castle

Gobelsburg Castle is located in the Gobelsburg cadastral community of Langenlois in the Krems-Land district in Lower Austria . The palace with its renaissance core was made Baroque by Joseph Munggenast and contains a work by Kremser Schmidt in the chapel . The building is a listed building .

history

The history of the castle is closely linked to that of Zwettl Abbey . Gobelsburg Castle was originally built as a fortified fortification in 1074 by the progenitor of the Kuenringers , Azzo von Gobatsburg , and was first mentioned in a Kuenringer document. After Zwettl Monastery was founded by his grandson Hadmar I. von Kuenring in 1138, he furnished the monastery with vineyards in Gobelsburg.

Gobelsburg remained in the possession of the Kuenringers until 1314 and then passed into the possession of various noble families . In the 16th century the fortress was converted into a four-wing complex in the Renaissance style. In 1693 it was inherited from Otto Ferdinand Freiherrn von Hohenfeld. Otto Achaz Ehrenreich Graf Hohenfeld had the building rebuilt in 1725 by Joseph Munggenast and redesigned it in Baroque style.

At that time the castle was also known under the name "Ehrenreichsburg". It was probably intended as a hunting lodge, as indicated by the frequent use of hunting motifs in the stucco work and ceiling paintings as well as on the tiled stoves. His son Heinrich joined the Cistercian monastery in Zwettl and in 1740 sold the already heavily indebted rule to him. In 1746 the castle became the administrative seat of the monastery.

After the First World War , a home for apprentices was set up in the building; it became increasingly neglected, and when French prisoners of war were housed there during the Second World War , it fell into disrepair. Floors were burned and the interiors devastated. After 1958 it was renovated under Father Bertrand Baumann, who was entrusted with the management of the property. After the work was completed in 1966, it served as a branch of the Austrian Folklore Museum until the end of the 20th century , which set up a ceramic museum for its majolica collection.

Today, Gobelsburg Castle and its vineyards are used as a winery that has been leased by the monastery since 1996. Part of the building is divided into apartments.

literature

  • ARGE Burgen, Stifts und Schlösser des Waldviertel (Ed.): Castles, monasteries and palaces of the Waldviertel. History, culture, hiking destinations, gastronomy . St. Pölten – Vienna 1994 II, 32 ff.
  • Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (=  Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 284 f .
  • Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes, Hartleben Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1925, II, p. 47 f.
  • Bertrand Michael Buchmann, Brigitte Fassbinder: Castles and palaces between Gföhl, Ottenstein and Grafenegg. Castles and palaces in Lower Austria , Volume 17 Birch series, St. Pölten / Vienna 1990, p. 80 ff.
  • 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. 274 ff.
  • Destination Waldviertel (ed.): Castles, monasteries and palaces in the regions of Waldviertel, Danube region, South Bohemia, Vysočina and South Moravia . Destination Waldviertel, Zwettl 2007, ISBN 978-3-9502262-2-5 , p. 33ff.
  • Franz Eppel : The Waldviertel . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1966, p. 110.
  • Homeland book Gobelsburg-Zeiselberg (ed. By Gobelsburger Arbeitsgemeinschaft). Langenlois 1991, p. 135.
  • Martina Lorenz, Karl Portele: Castles Palaces Austria . Vienna 1997, p. 45.
  • Laurin Luchner: castles in Austria I . Munich 1978, p. 147 f.
  • Georg Clam-Martinic : Österreichisches Burgenlexikon , Linz 1992, ISBN 9783902397508 , p. 125
  • Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3705605305 . P. 201 ff.
  • Schlösser und Burgen , issue 3 of the series Das Weinviertel , self-published by Kulturbund Weinviertel, Mistelbach 1979.
  • Hans Tietze : The monuments of the political district Krems . Austrian Art Topography I, Vienna 1907, p. 147 ff.
  • Georg Matthäus Vischer : Topographia Archiducatus Austriae Inferioris Modernae 1672. Reprint Graz 1976 VOMB, No. 35.
  • Franz R. Vorderwinkler: On the trail of culture. Steyr 1997, p. 66 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gobelsburg website (privately created and maintained by Gerhard Weber) ( Memento from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Castles, pens and palaces , p. 34.
  3. ↑ Online at Austria Forum

Coordinates: 48 ° 27 ′ 40.1 ″  N , 15 ° 41 ′ 45 ″  E