Karlslust Palace

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View of Karlslust Palace, May 2009

Karlslust Castle is located in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel , north of the road from Niederfladnitz to Mitterretzbach near the Czech border, and is not accessible to visitors.

history

When the Trautson family died out , the Kaja rule was inherited by Prince Karl Josef Auersperg . In 1795, construction began on Karlslust Palace in its hunting grounds; the builder was Franz Xaver Pollnfürst from Vienna. After the construction of the castle was completed, a wildlife park was created around the castle in 1798. The interior was completed in 1801. Heinrich Fischer, who also worked in the Vienna City Palace, could have worked as an interior designer. The stucco work comes from Johann Georg Böhm .

Although the castle is lonely and secluded in the forest, the rulership and the associated archive were moved here from Niederfladnitz Castle . After a male branch of the Auersperg-Trautson family died out, the rule first passed to the Dukes of Croÿ , then from 1945 to the Counts of Waldstein-Wartenberg , who in addition to the Karlslust Palace also owned the estate in Niederfladnitz with the associated Kaja Castle .

This is where the author and journalist Mella Waldstein grew up .

literature

  • Evelyn Benesch (arr.): Lower Austria - north of the Danube. ( Handbook of the Art Monuments of Austria ). Schroll-Verlag, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 .
  • Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. Volume 2, Hartleben, Vienna 1925.
  • Georg Clam Martinic: Castles and palaces in Austria. Landesverlag in Veritas Verlag, Linz 1996, ISBN 3-85001-679-1 .
  • Jiří Kacetl, Petr Lazárek, David Molík: Hrady a zámky moravsko-rakouského Podyjí slovem / Castles of the Austro-Moravian Thaya Valley in words. South Moravian Museum in Znojmo in cooperation with the Retz City Museum, Znojmo 2013, ISBN 978-80-86974-12-5 ( PDF on znojmuz.cz; German and Czech).

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Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 55 "  N , 15 ° 55 ′ 26"  E