Leesdorf Castle

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Leesdorf Castle in Baden near Vienna

The Leesdorf Castle is a castle in Baden near Vienna and now houses the HTL school of painting. It is a listed building and the castle park is protected as a natural monument.

Location and construction

Leesdorf Castle is located in the former suburb of Leesdorf , which was incorporated into Baden in 1850 and included the former Gut Leesdorf.

It lies between Schwechat and the Baden Mühlbach . The castle is surrounded by a wall. Access leads through a wrought iron gate over a stone bridge to the two-storey tower. Passing the baroque basket arch portal leads to a rectangular inner courtyard.

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The former moated castle was first mentioned with Hugo von Leuisdorf in 1114. The ministerials Hugos be the last time mentioned 1378th Leesdorf passed to Sigmund Kastner in 1312 , who in turn sold it to his cousin Erhart von Leutfaringer . The people of Wallsee also appear as owners for a time before ownership passed to Stephan von Zelking . After him Leesdorf became sovereign. In 1617 the estate was sold by Hans Friedrich von Kielmannsegg to Melk Abbey . The castle was badly damaged in the subsequent Turkish battles around 1683.

Under Abbot Berthold Dietmayr , the Romanesque building was converted into a baroque palace at the beginning of the 18th century . There is no evidence that Jakob Prandtauer was the architect. While the octagonal stair tower next to the chapel and a connecting building were removed, the chapel wing was expanded and connected to the main building by a transverse wing. In this connecting wing there is a ballroom with a ceiling painting depicting the god Chronos , who is framed by groups of putti symbolized by the four seasons . Various Babenberger dukes are shown on six canvas paintings .

Leesdorf Castle (before 1853) 

The castle still had this appearance when the Abbey Chapter of Melk decided to sell it on January 31, 1851. - The Viennese court and court advocate Dr. Stanislaus Neumister and his wife Anna acquired the castle and 5  Joch Grund for 20,000  fl on May 1, 1852 , had the already boggy moat of the earlier water festival filled in and partially planted with trees , replaced the old wooden bridge with a stone one, and had three of the four corner towers up to Dismantle at the height of the surrounding wall: Neumister redesigned the castle at a high cost, one speaks of 40,000–50,000  fl , into a luxury spa hotel with a park . Among the most distinguished spa guests staying here were Maria Pia of Savoy , the wife of King Ludwig I of Portugal (1869), who was visited by Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth on June 28, 1869 , and Prince Nikolaus I of Montenegro ( 1870). 

The economic success of the spa hotel does not seem to have met Neumister's expectations. He sold it on May 6, 1870 for 140,000 fl to the Viennese cattle dealer Andreas Pöhnl and his wife Eva, who sold it on   to Johann Theodor Egger after 3 ½ years at a high profit - around 165,000  fl . 

The new owner was an art-loving man, a collector mainly of old weapons, porcelain and gems . From 1885 the castle was extensively restored, the frescoes in the ballroom were restored and adapted to the tastes of the time under the architect Humbert Walcher Ritter von Moltheim . In the course of this, the wooden structure of the keep was removed and replaced with the closure that still exists today. The last renovations took place in 1907 and 1908, except for the east wing, in which the staircase was only installed after 1920.

On June 15, 1889 Egger sold the castle for 80,000  fl to Karl and Agnes Bai ( recte : lead), who were apparently only intermediaries and sold it on to Oskar Hüffel, a senior official of the Southern Railway Company . Hüffel kept Leesdorf Castle for ten years, and on May 20, 1897 he sold it to Dr. Robert Freiherr von Bach, from whom Heinrich and Paula Baltazzi bought it on October 15, 1907 . Bach lived there with his family, including his daughter, the composer and painter Maria Bach .

Heinrich Baltazzi ("Henry") completed the restoration in 1907, but from 1908 continued to design the building with his wife, Paula Freiin Scharschmid von Adlertreu.

Baltazzi died on February 2, 1929, and his widow Paula sold the castle on January 2, 1934 to the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis , called by Divine Love, who were commonly known as the “ Hartmann Sisters ” in Vienna and Lower Austria . It was named Elisabeth-Heim and was primarily intended to accommodate sick and old members of the order in need of relaxation. 

In 1938, the authorities of the National Socialist state forced the order to rent the castle to the municipality, and on September 12, 1940 it was confiscated. The community and the NSDAP used the building to accommodate refugees from Czechoslovakia, as a boarding school for girls who were difficult to educate and for students at the Traiskirchen National Political Education Center , to billet resettlers from Bessarabia and, from April 1942, as a reserve hospital for the Wehrmacht .

In 1945 it was looted and used to billet soldiers of the Red Army . On 20 January 1948, the property was returned to the Hartmann sisters they to the craft guild of painters leased, which established a master school here.

HTL Baden - master school

Castle portal with information board of the HTL Baden master school

In 1948 the palace was leased by the board of the Vienna Painters' Guild. The guild set up a master school for the painting trade here. In 1971 the lease contract was passed to the federal guild of painters, house painters and varnishers.

Today the school is called HTL with technical school and college out.

literature

  • Georg Lanz :  About Leesdorf Castle (Part 1/2). In:  Monthly Gazette of the Alterthums-Verein zu Wien , year 1898, Volume V, XV. Volume, issue 9/1898, pp. 173–176. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / maw;
  • Otto Piper (art historian): Austrian castles . Volume 7, reprint of the Vienna 1909 edition. Archiv-Verlag, Vienna 2002, OBV .
  • Rainer von Reinöhl: History of the Leesdorf Castle in Baden . Jasper, Vienna (1911), ÖNB .
  • Felix Halmer: Castles and palaces between Baden, Gutenstein and Wr. Neustadt . Birken-Verlag, 1968, OBV .
  • Gerhard Stenzel, Lothar Beckel (photo): From castle to castle in Austria . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-218-00229-X .
  • Gerhard Stenzel, Lothar Beckel (photo): From lock to lock in Austria . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-218-00288-5 .
  • Franz Eppel : Art in the country around Vienna . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-900173-23-0 .
  • Laurin Luchner (text editor), Emmanuel Boudot-Lamotte (photo): Castles in Austria . Volume 1, residences and country estates in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland . 1st edition. Beck, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-406-04507-3 .
  • Kurt Drescher: Collected contributions to the history of Leesdorf . Sn , Baden 1979, OBV .
  • Johannes Ressel: Churches and chapels, religious memorial columns and signposts in Baden near Vienna. A contribution to history, local history and art history . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Grasl, Baden 1982, ISBN 3-85098-131-2 .
  • Kurt Drescher: 675 years of pastoral care in Baden-Leesdorf. The religious life in Leesdorf . Self-published, Baden 1987, ÖNB .
  • Edith Bernhofer: Photography and its function as a historical source. Photographs make history “visible” - using the example of the Baden cadastral community of Leesdorf 1850–1988 . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 1990, OBV .
  • Viktor Wallner : Rendezvous in Mayerling . Verlag Grasl, Baden 1990.
  • Georg Clam Martinic : Austrian Castle Lexicon. Castles and ruins, mansions, palaces and palaces . 3. Edition. Landesverlag, Linz 1994, ISBN 3-85214-559-7 .
  • Julius Böheimer: Streets and alleys in Baden near Vienna. Lexicon of streets, alleys, squares, paths, walkways, bridges . Grasl, Baden 1997, ISBN 3-85098-236-X .
  • Malerschule Baden (Ed.): 75 years of the Master School of Austrian Painting, 1925–2000 . Painting School Leesdorf, Baden 2000, OBV .
  • Peter Aichinger-Rosenberger (among others): Lower Austria south of the Danube . Dehio-Handbuch, Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs, topographic monuments inventory. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X , ISBN 3-85028-365-8 .
  • Angelika Futschek: The Leesdorf Babenberger pictures . Catalog sheets of the Rollettmuseum Baden, Volume 49. Rollettmuseum Baden, Baden 2005, ISBN 3-901951-49-0 . (Complete at the same time: Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, Vienna 2002, under the title: Angelika Futschek: The six Babenberger representations in the baroque hall of Leesdorf Palace , OBV ).
  • Peter Benesch et al. (Red.): Commemorative publication eighty-year anniversary. 80 years master school, 10 years college, 10 years technical school for the deaf . HTL Baden, Painting School Leesdorf, Baden 2005, OBV .
  • Helmuth Feigl : manors and community in old Baden . In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria . Volume New Series 66–68, 2000–2002. Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria, St. Pölten 2006, OBV .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Stöhr, Johann Hagenauer: News from the heyday of Baden. The diary of M. Fr. Perth and the ode "The Baths of Baden" by Giuseppe de Carpani . New Badener Blätter, Volume 7.2. Society of Friends of Baden and the Municipal Collections - Archive, Rollett Museum of the City of Baden, Baden 1996, OBV ,  sp
  2. ^ Böheimer: Streets & Alleys in Baden near Vienna , p. 83.
  3. ↑ Little Chronicle. (…) The Queen of Portugal (…). In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 1737/1869, June 30, 1869, p. 1, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Feigl: manors and parish in old Baden , p. 210 f. passim.
  5. ↑ Feigl: Grundherrschaft und Gemeinde im alten Baden , p. 211.
  6. ↑ Franz Blei: Story of a life . List, Leipzig 1930, passim. (New edition by Zsolnay, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-552-05310-7 .)
  7. ↑ Local. Henry Baltazzi †. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 16/1929, February 23, 1929, p. 2, top right. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  8. ^ History of Leesdorf Castle (...). In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 22/1911, March 18, 1911, p. 7, top left. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  9. ↑ Henry Baltazzi died. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 15/1929, February 20, 1929, pp. 2, 5, top left. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt

Remarks

  1. ↑ The handover of the property was likely to have taken place in November 1889, when the 439 m² property at Kaiserstraße 86, Vienna-Neubau , acquired from Oswald Hüffel in a 50,000 guilders swap was booked in favor of Karl and Agnes Blei . - See: Vienna Daily Report. (...) Reality traffic. In:  Local-Anzeiger der "Presse" , supplement to No. 321/1889 (XLII. Year), November 21, 1889, p. 10 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 17 ″  N , 16 ° 15 ′ 2 ″  E