Halbturn Castle

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Halbturn Castle
Halbturn Castle

Halbturn Castle

Creation time : 1701-1711
Conservation status: Received or received substantial parts
Place: Half turn
Geographical location 47 ° 52 '29 "  N , 16 ° 58' 25"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '29 "  N , 16 ° 58' 25"  E
Height: 133  m above sea level A.
Halbturn Castle (Burgenland)
Halbturn Castle

The Halbturn Palace is a baroque palace complex in Halbturn in Burgenland District Neusiedl am See , east of Lake Neusiedl .

history

The castle was built by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt from 1701 to 1711 as a hunting lodge for Emperor Karl VI. built. Under his daughter Maria Theresia it was rebuilt by the court architect Franz Anton Hillebrandt and became the summer residence of Albert von Sachsen-Teschen and Archduchess Marie Christine as governor in Hungary . Frescoes by Franz Anton Maulbertsch also date from this period , including the ceiling fresco “Allegory of Time and Light”, which was made in 1765 as a wedding present for Archduchess Marie Christine.

In 1945 the castle was plundered by Russian occupation soldiers, in 1949 it burned down, whereby only the central part of the main building could be saved. The reconstruction took place gradually.

In 1955, the castle came into the possession of Baron Paul Waldbott-Bassenheim , who leased it to the state government , as the legacy of Albrecht von Österreich-Teschen , his mother's brother Maria Alice . Since Waldbott-Bassenheim's death in 2008, the operation, including viticulture and winery , has been managed by his nephew and adoptive son Markus Königsegg-Aulendorf and his wife Philippa, née Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems . The rooms in the castle are also used as an exhibition space and for the Halbturn Castle Concerts . The castle is a listed building and is included in the Austrian list of cultural assets (according to the Hague Agreement).

Garden area

The baroque design of the park goes back to the building phase of Charles VI. back around 1737. This remained largely unchanged until the 19th century, remains of it are preserved in the Broderieparterre in front of the south facade. Today's conception is an English garden , designed around 1900 under Archduke Friedrich (1856–1936) by the then garden director of Schönbrunn Palace , Anton Umlauft . The park is one of the most important garden architectural monuments in Austria and as such is explicitly under monument protection ( No. 3 in the appendix to Section 1, Paragraph 12 of the DMSG ).

The parish church of Halbturn is on the edge of the park .

gallery

  • Halbturn Castle (1905)

  • Remnants of a formal garden parterre with reconstructed hedges

  • Western entrance gate

  • Ceiling fresco in the central hall

See also

literature

  • roetzer's culture guide. Half turn. The castle of light-filled joie de vivre , ISBN 3853743498 .

Web links

Commons : Halbturn Palace  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria: Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930 . tape 1 Lower Austria, Burgenland . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-205-99305-6 , Halbturn, Schloßpark , p. 688 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Baroque jewel Halbturn Palace: Palace Park. schlosshalbturn.com, accessed November 21, 2015.