Guntersdorf Castle
The Guntersdorf Castle is located in Gunter village near Hollabrunn in Lower Austria .
history
In the second half of the 16th century, a late medieval building complex was expanded into an extensive complex with a moat.
According to the purchase agreement of December 10, 1717, Karl Anton Graf Serenyi sold the Guntersdorf estate for 236,000 guilders to Johann Rudolf Freiherrn von Ludwigsdorf. Since then, the castle has been owned by the Ludwigstorff family . It was badly damaged and looted during World War II . Around 280 hectares of arable land and twenty hectares of forest belong to the castle . The owner of the estate was Carl Hugo Ludwigstorff, his grandson Dominik Ludwigstorff took over the castle and estate management in 1990.
The castle and the area can now be rented out for events. It is a listed building .
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Eggendorfer: Guntersdorf and Großnondorf in the 17th and 18th centuries (1688–1780) - From the end of the Turkish threat to the accession of Emperor Joseph II. In: Anton Eggendorfer (ed.): Guntersdorf and Großnondorf. The history of the market town of Guntersdorf. Horn / Vienna 2008, p. 6 ( PDF on guntersdorf.at).
- ↑ Thomas Jorda: Luck of Love. In: Nobility obliges (series). Lower Austrian News , April 11, 2011.
Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '57.8 " N , 16 ° 3' 0.8" E
Web links
- Web presence of Schloss Guntersdorf
- Entry about Schloss Guntersdorf on Lower Austria Castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Guntersdorf Castle to Burgen-Austria