Grünbühel Castle (Lower Austria)
The Grünbühel Castle , also Grünbichl lies west of Kilb in Mostviertel .
Castle building
The castle is a rectangular, three-storey building with round corner towers . It has been rebuilt several times. The chapel was demolished in 1829. It is still inhabited today.
history
The castle was first mentioned in 1460 when Jörg von Pottendorf sold the rule of Kilb to Bernhard von Tiernstein . From this the Starhemberg brothers and their grandson Georg von Velderndorf inherited the castle. In 1521 Hans Velderndorf sold the fortress Grünbühel to the Göttweig monastery , and in 1534 he bought it back. In 1549 Jakob Gienger bought the castle. His son Nikolaus rebuilt the castle into a renaissance castle . After that, the owners often changed; in the middle of the 17th century it was the Barons Ruess von Ruessenstein. From 1720 the Counts of Wickenburg owned the castle for a long time. In 1830, Karl Theodor Graf von Wickenburg had the palace redesigned to give it today's classicistic appearance. From 1845 on there was a rapidly changing, bourgeois change of ownership. To the north of the castle there is a round tower, the rest of the former fortifications.
literature
- Rudolf Büttner: Castles and palaces between Araburg and Gresten. Vienna 1975.
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria south of the Danube. Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, pp. 931ff.
Web links
- Entry about Kilb-Grünbühel Castle on Lower Austria-Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Grünbühel Castle to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ N , 15 ° 24 ′ 12.2 ″ E