Great Castle
| Great Castle | ||
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 The entrance from the north |
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| Creation time : | 16th Century | |
| Conservation status: | Parts received | |
| Place: | Hollabrunn | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 34 '24.6 " N , 15 ° 59' 21.1" E | |
| Height: | 287 m above sea level A. | |
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The Groß Castle is a Renaissance building on the northern edge of the village of Groß in the Hollabrunn municipality in Lower Austria , which is a listed building.
history
The small one to two-storey three-wing complex from the early Renaissance was first mentioned in a document in 1231 as the property of a noble family. The complex was originally a fortified manor, which was surrounded by a moat. This moat was fed by the Runzelbach flowing past.
Between 1326 and 1505, the complex changed hands several times before it was rebuilt into a renaissance castle in the first half of the 16th century, presumably by Achatz I von Ennenkel in various successive construction phases. In 1591 it was owned by the Gilleis family , and in 1610 by the Herbersteins . During this time, the top floor was demolished due to dilapidation, the trenches were filled with rubble and the other buildings were greatly reduced. A three-wing complex remained, with the north wing being completely demolished, the side wings cut off and the removed parts replaced as simple farm buildings. The two slightly protruding round towers at the corners of the well-preserved representative south wing were removed up to roof height.
From 1675 Groß was owned by the Dietrichsteiners , who attached it to their Sonnberg rule . In 1864 it became the property of the Schönborn-Puchheim family, who had it extensively renovated several times. A fire in 1930 destroyed the roof structure, which was soon renewed.
During a general restoration, larger areas of the otherwise plastered quarry stone masonry were exposed. The stone-exposed areas show that the core of the building apparently dates back to the 14th century.
The castle is rented to companies and private individuals.
Building description
Outside
A bridge over the drained former moat opens up the facility from the north. It leads into the courtyard, which is open to the north and surrounded on the three other sides by the buildings of the palace complex. The main wing on the south side of the courtyard is single-storey and is closed off by a gable roof with four gable dormers on the north side and eight staggered gable dormers on the south side.
On the southern facade of the main wing, the central axis and two round corner towers that have been removed to building height protrude slightly. In between and on the flanks, the upper floor is partially set back via crenellated steps. The arched portal in the middle part is subject to later added beams. The former man gate is walled up. The window sills come from two construction phases in the 16th century.
Be located in the courtyard of the main building two-storey, mostly through a staircase built- walled arcades with pillars on the ground floor and eight-to fighters merges supports upstairs from the first half of the 16th century. The southern outer area is reached via a barrel-vaulted passage from the 16th century opened by a chamfered round arch portal. Above it is a profiled window from the second quarter of the 16th century. The facade in this area has a scratched corner block from the 16th century, which could suggest a former gate tower.
On both sides of the main wing, short side wings extend to the north, connected to the gable-sided single - storey stables from the first half of the 16th century, which end in wooden sheds. In the east wing there is a stair tower from the first half of the 16th century with a slim conical roof , which goes back to the new buildings of the Enenkels. The western wing is a utility wing, which is broken through by a rod-shaped portal from the second quarter of the 16th century and wide windows. Both wings have gable roofs with two rectangular windows each in the north triangular gable.
The entire complex is covered by a sgraffito ashlar from the 16th century.
Inside
The upper arcade of the main wing is closed off by a cross vault with plastered ridges. It opens up the rooms in the east wing.
The east wing has a lancet vault from the first half of the 16th century on the ground floor , which has the character of a cell vault through stucco ridges . The barrel has barbed stitch cap ridges. In the east wing there are three portals from the second quarter of the 16th century: a studded portal, a bar-shaped portal and a rose portal.
The western economic wing has a needle cap barrel with stuccoed, partially barbed ridges.
Remnants of frescoes have been preserved in the living rooms on the upper floor.
literature
- "Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria north of the Danube. ” Edited by Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle u. a. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 317
Web links
- Entry via Schloss Groß on Burgen-Austria
Remarks
- ↑ An engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1672 shows a two-storey four-wing building with round towers at the corners.
- ↑ "Burgen Austria" names the first half of the 17th century as the time when the sgraffito ashlar was built
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
- ↑ Entry about Schloss Groß in Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- ↑ Schloss Groß on “burgen–austria.com” accessed on October 28, 2014
- ↑ a b “Dehio Handbook.” P. 318