Hagenberg Castle (Weinviertel)

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Frontal view of the castle (2012)

Hagenberg Castle , also Haggenberg Castle , is a listed building in the municipality of Fallbach in the northern Weinviertel .

The four-wing moated castle was first mentioned in a document in the 12th century. In its current form, created under the Counts of Sinzendorf , it has existed since the 17th century. It stood u. a. owned by the Trautmannsdorff and Liechtenstein families .

Between 1986 and 2020, the lord and owner of the castle was the author and painter Horst Wächter , who got to know the castle through artistic activities with Konrad Bayer and Padhi Friedberger . Horst Wächter is the son of the National Socialist politician and SS leader Otto Wächter .

According to a public Facebook announcement by Wächter on March 6, 2020, the castle was sold to a family in the spring of the same year who has the means to finance the long-fragile renovation work.

Under the name Initiative Hagenberg , the state of Lower Austria promotes cultural activities in the castle by way of an association structure within the framework of the funding scheme for cultural networking in Lower Austria .

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  • NOE Hagenberg entrance gate.jpg
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Web links

Commons : Schloss Hagenberg (Weinviertel)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Lower Austrian castles and palaces (2 vols.), Georg Binder, Vienna – Leipzig 1925 II, p. 118
  • Burgen Weinviertel, edited by Falko Daim, Reichhalter / Kühtreiber, Freytag-Berndt, 2005, ISBN 978-3-7079-0713-1
  • Castles and palaces from Bisamberg to Laa / Thaya. Castles and palaces in Lower Austria 14 (birch series), Rudolf Büttner, Renate Madritsch, St. Pölten – Vienna 1987, p. 158 ff
  • Austrian Castle Lexicon. Castles and ruins, mansions, palaces and palaces. Georg Clam-Martinic, Landesverlag Linz 1992, p. 133
  • Dehio Lower Austria, north of the Danube (published by the Federal Monuments Office). Publisher Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990
  • Palaces and castles in the Weinviertel. Series of publications Das Weinviertel 3 (edited by Kulturbund Weinviertel), Manfred Jasser et al., Mistelbach 1979, 95

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry about Schloss Hagenberg at Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
  2. ↑ Hagenberg Castle. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Say how it is. Retrieved June 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Cultural Networking Lower Austria: Horst, Guardian. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 37'55 "  N , 16 ° 27'0.4"  E