Grossau Castle

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Grossau Castle is a Renaissance castle in the southeast of the village of Grossau (municipality Raabs an der Thaya , Waidhofen an der Thaya district ) on the Moravian Thaya .

Outbuildings

history

Originally there was a castle west of the place over the Thaya. This was first mentioned in a document in 1204. In the 15th century it became deserted and is mentioned in a document from 1574 as a desolate festival. In the 16th century was in Grossau a moated castle built in the farm buildings in 1856 by the Baron of Villa Secca the first agricultural school in Lower Austria was established.

On August 29, 1914, the vacant castle owned by the Imperial Councilor Natonek was used by the Waidhofen an der Thaya District Administration in accordance with the War Service Act to set up the Grossau internment camp . During this time the original owner sold the castle to the owner of Raabs an der Thaya Castle , Baron Robert Freiherr Klinger von Klingerstorff. This change of ownership also made it necessary to relocate the camp hospital set up here to the Drosendorf internment camp . James Joyce's brother Stanislaus Joyce, who had been transferred here from the Kirchberg an der Wild internment camp, was one of the internees in the Grossau camp . The unused structure was repaired around 1930.

Today the castle is used commercially.

description

The castle is a small, four-wing complex from the late Renaissance. The building is surrounded by moats on three sides. The renewed facades with plastering stones and corner facings probably go back to the late 19th century. A mighty, square, slightly raised tower with a tent roof is inserted in the re-entrant southwest corner. There is a baroque terrace on the east side. The complex has extensive farm buildings, a two-story, two-wing residential wing with an early historical facade from around 1860 and a two-story, locally-framed bulk box with wide windows and a crooked roof from the second third of the 19th century.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 53 ″  N , 15 ° 31 ′ 15 ″  E