Horn Castle (Lower Austria)
The Horn Castle is in the southeast corner of the walled city - at the confluence of Mödringbach in the Taffa in the borough Horn in the district of Horn in Lower Austria . The castle is under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
In the 12th century a town castle was built, this was sovereign until 1210, and was in the rule of the Maissau until 1440, then that of Puchheim , after 1620 Muschinger, Kurz, and since 1676 it has belonged to the von Hoyos (noble family) in the line Hoyos Sprintstone . Today the castle is partly used as an official building.
Medieval core buildings have been preserved in the south, west and north wings. The built-in very massive, wide northeast tower of the former castle, the southeast corner tower of the first city fortifications and the so-called thief tower, both from the 12th / 13th centuries. Century. In the central interior of the west and north wings, there are massive wall sections of the former outer walls of the castle. In the late Middle Ages, the west wing was extended to the north. In 1539, under the Puchheimers, conversions were made with extensions to the east with casemates and stables over the initial fortification wall, as well as a reinforcement of the north-eastern bastion. For this purpose, the state court building was connected to the north in the late 16th century. In the first quarter of the 18th century, it was converted into a three-wing complex with an extension. In the middle of the 19th century, the north wing was expanded to the outside, a cantilevered polygonal corner tower was built to the northwest, and single-storey coach houses and workshop buildings were added to the east.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Horn, Castle, with floor plan, Regional Court, pp. 457–458.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 49.1 ″ N , 15 ° 39 ′ 39.9 ″ E