Jormannsdorf Castle
Castle Jormannsdorf is located in the municipality of Bad Tatzmannsdorf belonging village Jormannsdorf in southern Burgenland and has been in the Renaissance style built. It is the oldest building in Bad Tatzmannsdorf and is a listed building .
history
In a letter from Christoph von Königsberg to Dorothea Batthyány , which he wrote in Khünigsberghausen in 1591, Jormannsdorf Castle is mentioned for the first time under the name Gyimotfálva . The Königsbergers built the castle as a mansion. A meierhof covering 64 days was built around the building . The chapel belonging to the castle was also built . In the foyer of the castle there is a copy of a console made of gray sandstone, which shows the coat of arms of the Königsberg family and the year 1626. The original is in the Bad Tatzmannsdorf spa museum. The console reminds of the completion of the palace construction by Christoph von Königsberg's nephew.
The evangelical preacher Johann Mühlberger gave a festive sermon on the occasion of the inauguration of a Sauerbrunnen in the "Herrenhauß zu Jormannsdorff on the day Jacobi Anno 1620", which was printed in the Regensburg Chronicle in 1621 in Regensburg . It is also the first written mention of the local medicinal springs.
Between 1624 and 1626 the castle was expanded further. Adam I. Count Batthyány acquired the property in 1644 from Christoph Ehrenreich Freiherr von Königsberg. During this time, the castle was mostly leased. The tenants benefited above all from the mineral spring that gushed in the palace gardens . From this, Jormannsdorf developed into a health resort with the neighboring Tatzmannsdorf.
Attached to the castle is the coat of arms of the Batthyány family: the prongs of the crown symbolize the nine counties in which the family ruled. The togetherness of the Batthyánys is symbolized by a pelican sitting in the nest, which scratches its breast with its beak and soaks its young with the blood flowing out.
use
After the Turkish Wars , the castle served as a convalescent home for wounded officers. The main building and the Meierhof were expanded by Count Joseph Emanuel Batthyány after 1790, and an English park was created. Count Batthyány sold the bathing establishment in 1919. The castle itself remained in the family until 1956.
In 1948, a farming school of the Burgenland Chamber of Agriculture was established in Jormannsdorf Castle and the associated Meierhof . Between 1956 and 1957 the castle was converted into a castle hotel. The hotel business was maintained until 1986.
In 1987 the Kurbad Tatzmannsdorf AG acquired the castle and from 1993 it was revitalized.
From October 2003 to 2016, training courses in the field of health were carried out in the health academy of the BFI Burgenland in the rooms of the old castle .
The castle is currently used by the Burgenland Dental Association and the Burgenland University of Applied Sciences .
See also
Web links
- Entry via Jormannsdorf Castle to Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ^ Romana Theresia Gratzer: Life on the border depicted on the basis of the letters of Christoph von Königsberg 1567–1599 , diploma thesis at the University of Vienna , Vienna 2003
Coordinates: 47 ° 20 ′ 53.7 ″ N , 16 ° 13 ′ 19.6 ″ E