Hirschbach Castle
The Hirschbach Castle is a former castle in the northwest corner of the town square in the village of Hirschbach in the district of Gmünd in Lower Austria .
history
A castle was mentioned in a document in 1280 and was owned by the Topler until 1470. From 1480 to 1612 the castle belonged to the Streun , in the fourth quarter of the 16th century the four-wing building with octagonal corner towers and the extension of the castle church were built. From 1612 to 1626 the castle belonged to Ulrich Christoph von Scherffenberg . From 1626 to 1760 the Herberstein . In 1760 the castle and Count Julius von Veterani went to the rule of Kirchberg am Walde . The castle was uninhabited from 1783 and was divided into residential buildings in 1843. The towers and some of the upper floors were removed.
architecture
The almost square four-wing complex contains today's parish church of Hirschbach in the middle of the west wing . Today one and two-story houses stand around a square courtyard. In the former east wing, in the middle of the axis of the west-facing church, the barrel-vaulted entrance has been preserved.
In 1867 a school was established in house number 66. The school received a new facade in 1877/1878, the rusticated arched portal is from the construction time of the castle. At house number 64 there are figural niches with the Saints Sebastian and Rochus .
literature
- Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes, Hartleben Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1925, II, p. 87.
- Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber : Castles - Waldviertel, Wachau, Moravian Thayatal . 2nd edition, Verlag Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , pp. 208 f.
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . P. 424 (Hirschbach, former castle).
- Franz Eppel : The Waldviertel . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1978, p. 129.
- Georg Clam-Martinic : Österreichisches Burgenlexikon , Linz 1992, ISBN 9783902397508 , p. 137.
- Walter Pongratz , Gerhard Seebach : Castles and palaces Litschau - Zwettl - Ottenschlag - Weitra. Lower Austria's castles and palaces III / 1 (birch row) . Vienna 1971, ISBN 3850300072 , p. 33 f.
- Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3705605305 , p. 158.
- Georg Matthäus Vischer : Topographia Archiducatus Austriae Inferioris Modernae 1672. Reprint Graz 1976 VOMB, No. 49.
Web links
- Entry via Hirschbach Castle to Burgen-Austria
- Entry about Hirschbach Castle on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Hirschbach Castle at wehrbauten.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Online at Austria Forum
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 37.6 ″ N , 15 ° 7 ′ 30.6 ″ E