Lanzendorf Castle

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Lanzendorf Castle

The Lanzendorf Castle (also Oberlanzendorf) is a castle in the Bruck an der Leitha district in Lower Austria .

location

The Lanzendorf Castle (also Oberlanzendorf) is located in the municipality of Lanzendorf , cadastral municipality Oberlanzendorf in the Vienna Basin , Lower Austria, about four kilometers southeast of the Vienna city limits. It's in the south of the village next to the thoroughfare.

architecture

In its eventful history, the castle has been rebuilt several times. Now it's a block-like, three-story building over an L-shaped floor plan. The street front is kept simple with seven irregular window axes and corners with decorative ashlar. In the middle of the hipped roof sits a square roof turret covered with a tinny pointed helmet. It probably comes from the renovation in 1758. The front of the courtyard has windows with profiled walls and straight roofs, which are largely covered by extensions. On the side of the large park there is a two-story loggia, the pillars of which support a flat ceiling on the ground floor and a basket-arch vault on the upper floor . This addition is relatively new. A two-storey porch with a grooved ground floor adjoins it in the south . The high, rounded French windows on the upper floor are separated by double pilasters. Behind it is the former ballroom. A chapel was set up on the upper floor of this wing around 1830. The courtyard-side extensions also come from this year. In place of a roof, this porch supports a roof terrace, which is bordered by a stone balustrade. There is a tower-like roof house on the street side. An auxiliary building is connected to the main building by a flat-roofed colonnade. This, as well as other, mostly two-storey buildings, were erected at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century as an administration and maintenance building. The former defensive wall still surrounds parts of them today. The formerly large dairy farm on the other side of the street was demolished in 1998, only the stables remained.

history

Around 1170, Lanzendorf Castle was owned by the Asparn-Maleisdorfers, who were later replaced by the Schönbergers. The owner families often named themselves after Lanzendorf. In 1388 Duke Albrecht III confirmed the ownership of a farm to the Ruedel von Lanzendorf. The Eisler family in 1558 and Baron Heinrich von Lamberg in 1572 appear to be the rulers . Because of its location in the east of the city of Vienna and its poor fortification, the castle was devastated and partially destroyed during both Turkish sieges. The current building was built in the 17th century when the nobles of Montrichier, Julini and Brassican had an L-shaped castle built in place of the 12th century residence, and through renovations under Bernhard von Lanzendorf in 1758. The owners changed further: Otto Ehrenreich Freiherr von Kirchberg replaced Johann Friedrich von Brassican, then, after the bankruptcy, the Counts of Königsberg bought it and had some things rebuilt. Moritz Edler von Tschoffen acquired the castle in 1830. It served as a factory from 1832, first for metal dishes and from 1841 for brass goods. Then came Salomon Marcus Adler, Victor Adler's father , and Dr. Konrad Willner, a brother of Alfred Maria Willner , took possession of the castle. Around 1900 the castle was used as the “Empress Elisabeth Asylum”, a social facility for physically handicapped children. For this it was expanded in the pavilion system. In the war years 1939–1945 the castle was used as a labor education camp, with many people perishing. It also served as an interim camp for political and criminal prisoners and, in the last years of the war, as a transit camp for Hungarian Jews on their way to various concentration camps. The camp management owned the castle and the prisoners were housed in the former meierhof.

The Caritas of the Archdiocese of Vienna took over the castle in 1948 and set up a care center for people of all ages in it. Since then she has restored the castle, erected new buildings and adapted existing objects for the kitchen, workshop, warehouse and laundry room. As part of a restoration of the castle, which is now called Haus Franziska, a staircase made of exposed concrete was built to serve as a reminder of the victims of the Nazi regime .

Caritas facility for the disabled

There are two groups for disabled people in the Franziska house. 17 men and women live here (as of 2019) who are to be prepared for an independent life. There are single and double rooms that are furnished by the residents themselves. Each residential group has a shared kitchen, a shared living room, a bathroom, showers and toilets, and a balcony.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Lanzendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bundesdenkmalamt Vienna (ed.): Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube (=  Dehio Manual ). 1st edition. Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Ferdinand, 2003, p. 1141-1142 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Oberlanzendorf. In: Burgen-Austria. November 25, 2005, accessed September 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Directory of persons. First letter: A. In: Burgen-Austria. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Directory of persons. First letter: L. In: Burgen-Austria. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  5. ^ Fr. Schweickhardt Ritter von Sickingen: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens . Third volume: Quarter under the Vienna Woods. Vienna 1831, p. 80 .
  6. ^ Franz Karl Wißgrill: scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from the gentry and knight rank of the XI. Century up to the present day . First volume. Vienna 1794, p. 375 .
  7. ↑ Victor Adler's father. In: Austria Forum. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ By and for the descendants of Maria & Anton Willner. (PDF) Association for the Preservation of Mautner Markhof Family Graves, accessed on September 19, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Labor education camp (AEL) Oberlanzendorf. In: Vienna History Wiki . Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  10. ^ Caritas facility for the disabled in Lanzendorf. Lanzendorf community, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
  11. ^ Residence and residential group Franziska. Caritas of the Archdiocese of Vienna, June 28, 2019, accessed on November 3, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 19.2 ″  N , 16 ° 26 ′ 6.9 ″  E