Kälberhart Castle

The calves hard castle stands in the Castle Weiler calves Hart in the municipality of Mank in the district of Melk in Lower Austria .

history

In a document, the castle belonged to Hertel Kälberharter in 1389. The present castle is part of a castle that was abandoned after the 16th century.

architecture

The undivided two-storey cubic building under a hipped roof over a rectangular floor plan from the second half of the 16th century has a cylindrical corner tower under a conical roof and key notches above the eaves . There is a wooden porch around 1900.

On the ground floor there are groin-vaulted rooms from the second half of the 16th century. The staircase was built around 1900. The upper floor was changed around 1900. Around 1919 there were additions.

literature

• Falko Daim (Ed.): Castles - Mostviertel . 1st edition. Freytag & Berndt Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7079-1041-4 , pp. 159-160.
• The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Mank, Kälberhart, Kälberhart Castle. P. 1263.

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '44 "  N , 15 ° 21' 41.3"  E