Juliusburg Castle
| Juliusburg Castle | ||
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 Northeast view of the castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Stetteldorf Castle | |
| Creation time : | 1588 | |
| Conservation status: | Received or received substantial parts | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Stetteldorf am Wagram | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 24 '19.3 " N , 16 ° 1' 22.9" E | |
| Height: | 220 m above sea level A. | |
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The Juliusburg Castle (or Schloss Stetteldorf ) is located in Stetteldorf am Wagram , in the southwestern Weinviertel in Lower Austria , on the edge of the Wagram .
history
Count Julius II zu Hardegg had the castle built in 1588 after having acquired the rule and the market of Stetteldorf from the Starhemberg family in 1582 . The builder was Andreas Piazoll . He had already built a sheep farm, a dump box and a mill here before, and with the castle he created a residence that was befitting of his status and which he named after himself. There was no previous building at this point.
After Julius II died in 1593, Count Georg Friedrich Hardegg had the castle surrounded on three sides with a moat and built three roundels . He even hired a gardener from Vincenza for the new construction of the famous palace garden. In 1602 he laid out the courtyard garden under the Wagram. According to Schweickhardt, it said, BUMB. VI a pleasure house , a hunter's house and a hermitage . There were pebbly walks, pools and fountains with statues for strolling. A wall equipped with round towers with a pointed roof and portals served as a fence. An engraving from 1672 and the fresco in the ballroom of the castle by Johann Melchior Thalmann from the first half of the 18th century still give us evidence of this. Despite these fortifications, the castle was badly plundered by Lennart Torstensson's troops during the Swedish invasion of 1645 . In 1675 this magnificent garden was visited by Emperor Leopold I and his wife. Count Georg Friedrich also had a very expensive stud in Schmida.
The Sobieskitrakt with the former tower commemorates the council of war held in the castle in 1683, during which the Polish king Jan Sobieski , Duke Karl of Lorraine and German princes planned the liberation of Vienna from the Turks.
Under Johann Julius IV Graf Hardegg , the architect Johann Jacob Castelli undertook the baroque redesign of the complex from 1705 to 1709, which Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt was able to finish. The mighty double gate through the wall comes from him. In 1749 an earthquake severely damaged the castle, so that the three-storey tower of the castle, baroque with a Welschen dome , had to be demolished. During the baroque renovation, not much consideration was given to the statics of the castle, so that there were problems in this regard. Fortunately, these could be remedied during the restoration, starting around 2008.
In the 1950s, wall paintings were discovered and uncovered in the largest hall of the castle, the playroom, so named because badminton was played in it in the past. The paintings represent the possessions of the older line of the Hardegg family. The owner at the time, Countess Mechthild von Hardegg, geb. Freiin von Sturmfeder , had an artistic hand, she restored the paintings herself. The countess was the childless widow of the last Majoratsherr Johann Friedrich von Hardegg in Stetteldorf. He fell in the last days of the war in 1945.
At the end of the war in 1945, the castle was looted and devastated. Irreplaceable works of art and the magnificent interior including the archive were lost. After the death of Countess Mechthild Hardegg, her niece and foster daughter Kunigund Sturmfeder lived in the castle. The Countess had already sold it to Georg Stradiot (formerly Maier), the grandson of a Stetteldorfer Hardegg, for a life annuity. He also acquired the Haghof in Wolfpassing and Schmida Castle from another Hardegger heir . He also bought Marsbach Castle . It was not until 60 years after the end of the war that Juliusburg Castle could be saved by its new owner at great expense. Most of the land owned by the former Fideikommiss Stetteldorf was resold for the acquisition of both parts of the inheritance and the costly renovation of the castle.
Building description
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Outside
The core of the renaissance complex with an L-shaped floor plan stands east of the town of Stetteldorf on the southern edge of the steeply sloping Wagram . The connected, low farm buildings, together with the two wings of the castle, enclose an almost square courtyard.
The elongated three-storey main wing with its facade, which was redesigned in Baroque style from 1705 to 1709, and a high crooked roof is designated 1588 and forms the southern end of the complex towards the edge of the Wagram.
Inside
Main wing
The rooms on the ground floor have predominantly groin vaults with plaster ridges, some of which rise above Tuscan half-columns.
Sobieskitrakt
In some rooms there are stuccoed mirror vaults from the 16th / 17th centuries. century
literature
- Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle a . a. (Arr.): Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria north of the Danube. Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 1121/1122.
- Kirsten Krepelin, Caroline Rolka and Thomas Thränert: The gardens of Stetteldorf Castle on Wagram . In: Die Gartenkunst 21 (2/2009), pp. 227–239.
Web links
- Federal Monuments Office: Stetteldorf - Juliusburg Palace
- Entry about Schloss Stetteldorf (Juliusburg) on NÖ-Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Juliusburg Castle to Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ^ Dehio, p. 1121