Jaidhof Palace

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Jaidhof Palace with the main courtyard seen from the south
Mittelrisalit seen from Castle Jaidhof from the north
Side view of Jaidhof Palace as seen from the north-west

Schloss Jaidhof , also Schloss Ort , is a castle in the municipality of Jaidhof in the Krems-Land district in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria . Mentioned for the first time in 1381, it has been rebuilt several times in the course of its history. The castle got its present appearance in the second half of the 19th century when it was owned by the Austrian Gutmann family. Jaidhof Palace has been owned by the Society of St. Pius X since 1985 .

history

Presumably built at the time of the Babenbergs , the "Jaedthoff" originally built as a castle was first mentioned in 1381. In 1662, the imperial statesman Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorf (1616–1681) acquired the property together with the Gföhl lordship and had it expanded into a castle in the following years. In 1834 it came into the possession of the banker Georg Simon von Sina (1783-1856). In 1884 the Austrian entrepreneur Wilhelm von Gutmann (1826–1895) bought Jaidhof Palace and had it extensively modernized by the architect Max von Ferstel (1859–1936). His son Max von Gutmann (1857–1930) had his father's renovations completed. After the Gutmann family was expropriated by the National Socialists in 1938 without compensation, Jaidhof Palace served as a Gau training castle , resettlement camp and barracks until 1945 .

After the Second World War , Jaidhof Palace and the associated lands were confiscated by the Soviet Occupation Administration ( USIA ) and had to be bought back by the Gutmann family. In 1985 the property was leased from the owner at the time, Rosa Gutmann (1912–2003), to the Society of St. Pius X. After her death in 2003, it was bequeathed to them. The lands remained in family ownership. Jaidhof Palace is today the headquarters of the Society of Priests for all states of the former Danube Monarchy . These include, in addition to Austria and South Tyrol u. a Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary , Slovenia and Croatia . It is also used for seminars, retreat courses and youth work.

investment

Jaidhof Palace is located in the center of the community of Jaidhof. The building has the floor plan of a baroque courtyard complex with three floors and two floors on the outside with a core from the second half of the 17th century. The facade is classically structured with pilaster strips and window frames from around 1800 , but was redesigned in the second half of the 19th century in the style of historicism . Dormers and numerous chimneys can be seen on the gable roofs . The main wing has a triangular gable on the outside and on the courtyard side above the central projecting as well as neoclassical pillar arenas with balustrades, which are partly glazed and partly open as a pillar hall. Above it rises a three-tiered tower tower with a small onion helmet. An extensive English garden with ponds and the remains of a pavilion extends beyond the area east of the castle .

literature

  • Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes, Hartleben Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1925, II, 20.
  • Bertrand M. Buchmann, Brigitte Faßbinder: Castles and palaces between Gföhl, Ottenstein and Grafenegg. Lower Austrian Press House, St. Pölten-Vienna 1990, ISBN 3850300110 .
  • Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (=  Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 472 f .
  • Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber : Castles - Waldviertel, Wachau, Moravian Thayatal . 2nd edition, Verlag Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , p. 228 f.
  • Georg Clam-Martinic : Austrian Castle Lexicon - Palaces, castles and ruins. A & M Verlag, Salzburg 1991, ISBN 9783902397508 ; P. 140
  • Karin Richhalter, Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel and Wachau. Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3705605305 , p. 173 f.
  • Hans Tietze : The monuments of the political district Krems . Austrian Art Topography I, Vienna 1907, p. 193 f.
  • Association for regional studies of Lower Austria (ed.): Topography of Lower Austria . Vienna 1877 ff. VI, p. 442 f.
  • Georg Matthäus Vischer : Topographia Archiducatus Austriae Inferioris Modernae 1672. Reprint Graz 1976 VOMB, No. 32.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online at Austria Forum

Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '42.6 "  N , 15 ° 29" 8.9 "  E