Groß-Schweinbarth Castle
Groß-Schweinbarth Castle is located in the southern part of the Lower Austrian market town of Groß-Schweinbarth . Its history goes back to the 12th century. It is one of the properties of the Abensperg-Traun family .
history
The history of the castle begins in the 12th century, when the name of the place was called Suinwart or Swinwart, which referred to a high stand for wild boar hunting. Before 1280, a moated castle was built at the place where the elevated position was , which the Schweinbarther population owned until the beginning of the 14th century.
Subsequently, the population had to go under the feudal rule of the burgrave of Nuremberg. As a sovereign fiefdom , the rule was later returned to the citizens. Furthermore, there were several possessions of the Kuenringer family in the place, with which there were increasing problems in relation to their demarcation. In 1375 the castle, the market and the court of Schweinbarth were prescribed by Nizzo II von Kuenring to his wife Margareta von Pottendorf with the consent of Burgrave Friedrich von Nürnberg. In the next few years ownership changed to Schweinbarth and the Wasserburg several times. Finally, in 1658, Count Ernst von Abensperg and Traun succeeded in acquiring the Brandenburg share from Groß-Schweinbarth. Three years later he was also bought the moated castle from Karl Johann Wilhelm von Schönkirchen. Today's castle goes back to a reconstruction of the moated castle by the Count Abensperg, which was renovated in 1973/78 because it was damaged in 1945 during the Second World War .
Design
The castle is still partially surrounded by a moat, which has dried up since 1767. Originally built on wooden piles, the building was reinforced in 1792. The building is two stories high from the western side of the street, and two wings of unequal length extend to the rear. These form a courtyard of honor, with the main front clearly protruding over the shorter north wing. A hall building, which also protrudes, is attached to the garden side, the open east side of the courtyard ends with a vaulted wall. The north wing of the castle was originally the main wing, built from small rubble stones, which was the moated castle. The other two tracts were only built from bricks under Count Abensperg-Traun.
The western wing of the castle was built under Johann Adam Graf von Abensperg-Traun in 1792/97 and is therefore missing from the Vischer engraving from 1672. In 1833 the single-storey southern wing was also built as a farm building. On the opposite side of the street is a building that was renovated in 1803 and was the former stately poor house . The adjoining Meierhof today contains the folklore museum of Groß-Schweinbarth.
Web links
- The website of the market town of Groß-Schweinbarth
- Entry about Groß-Schweinbarth Castle in Lower Austria Castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Groß Schweinbarth to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 45 ″ N , 16 ° 38 ′ 9 ″ E