Immendorf Castle
Immendorf Castle was a castle in the village of Immendorf in the market town of Wullersdorf in the Hollabrunn district in Lower Austria . At the end of the Second World War , the castle used as an art depot was set on fire, and ten major works by Gustav Klimt and other valuable pictures were destroyed.
history
A Per (n) hardus de Immendorf is mentioned in 1217, and in 1278 a Bernhard von Immendorf. Then the Palterndorfer owners of the estate, Matthias Palterndorfer appears in the tax records in 1529.
The castle was the seat of knightly followers who repeatedly adapted the structure. The last renovation of the facility took place in 1850, during which the trench was leveled. In 1886 Carl Freiherr von Freudenthal, who came from an old noble Silesian family, acquired Immendorf Castle and ran the agricultural business that also consisted of the Nexenhof and the Gottelhof . In the 20th century, the small three- story fort castle had four taller towers. After the fire in 1945, the ruin was used as a quarry and the foundations were removed.
Art depot
The castle has been used as an art depot since 1942. On May 8, 1945, the last day of the war in this region, the castle burned down completely. After a report about the fire by the local police a year later, an SS unit of the “Feldherrnhalle” division was made responsible. However, this has been questioned by art historian Tina Maria Storkovich. The fire destroyed all art objects stored in the castle.
Web links
- Entry about Immendorf on Lower Austria Castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austrian news: Rudolf Freudenthal: Everything burned ; accessed on Jan 27. 2017
- ↑ Tina Marie Storkovich: Burned Klimt Pictures: The Immendorf Puzzle. In: diepresse.com. Die Presse, December 18, 2015, accessed on July 28, 2020 ( this article appeared in the print edition of the press on December 19, 2015. See also relevant publications by Tina Maria Storkovich at https://kfunigraz.academia.edu/TinaMarieStorkovich ).
Coordinates: 48 ° 38 ′ 46.9 ″ N , 16 ° 7 ′ 51.9 ″ E