Liesing Castle

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Liesing Castle
Already as a “municipal supply home” - Liesing Castle (center left) around 1872 in Ober-Liesing, still with the location of the old watercourses around the castle

The Liesing castle situated in 23rd district of Vienna Liesing on the road Perchtoldsdorfer 6. It was surrounded by a large park. The former moated castle has not been preserved in its entirety.

history

Liesing Castle was first mentioned in 1387 as a manor named “Hausgraben” or “Auhof”. From 1415 to 1435 it was owned by the local judge Georg Zeitlas and then belonged to pastor Andreas Plank von Gars, who later became Chancellor Albrechts II. He donated the estate to the Dorotheerkloster in Vienna . The two Turkish sieges in 1529 and 1683 severely affected the estate. It was almost completely destroyed during the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna . According to a legend , only the hazelnut tree in the palace gardens was spared. This legend also became the model for the Liesingen coat of arms , which shows a three-leaf hazelnut branch with four fruits over a blazing fire and the year 1683.

The manor was rebuilt soon afterwards. Its moat and the associated drainage over the Ketzergasse area is taken as an indication that there was a water connection between the Liesingbach and the Petersbach valley . It is believed that this connection was created artificially. Since the course of the Liesingbach makes a clear swivel to the north east of Liesing, it cannot be ruled out that this brook flowed further to the east earlier (before it was relocated ) and that this old watercourse formed the fortification of the house ditch and then (over the old maps drawn moat, which was also called Aubach) continued to feed the course of today's Petersbach.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the building was expanded into a palace, in which Emperor Charles VI is believed to be . descent. After the current castle was given back by the church, it first fell to Joseph Edler von Kurzböck and in 1732 to the court jeweler Valentin von Mack . However, his descendants went bankrupt with the company and eventually sold the castle to Moriz Mandeles in 1848, who tried to rent the property out. A salmiak factory in the castle is considered to be the first known industrial company in the area. At times around 1857 a nursing home for mentally handicapped children was housed here. Friedrich, the son of Moriz Mandeles, finally had to sell Liesing Castle to the municipality of Vienna in 1876 for lack of money . This transformed the castle into a retirement home. Liesing Castle is still owned by the City of Vienna and is home to the Liesing Geriatric Center .

From October 12, 1924 to September 5, 1925, Liesing Castle and its properties formed a separate local community in Neu-Liesing .

Between 2009 and 2012, the City of Vienna is building a new building for the geriatric center for 67 million euros, which will take up more than a third of the parking area. During construction work for the redesign of the castle as a geriatric center, a historic wall was found, but it was destroyed by the construction work. It was 4–5 m deep and extended to 50 m. In July 2006 a citizens' initiative “Save the Liesinger Palace Park” was founded with the intention of saving the park and palace. She couldn't get her way. To at least partially compensate for the built-up area, however, a large former residential building, in which nurses were housed and which was located on Perchtoldsdorfer Strasse, was demolished without replacement and its stand area planted.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ferdinand Opll: Maps as a source of topographical knowledge. The Liesinger area in the south of Vienna at the time of Maria Theresa. In: Viennese history sheets . Edited by the Association for the History of the City of Vienna . 68th year. Issue 2/2013. ISSN  0043-5317 ZDB -ID 2245-7 . P. 118.
  2. ↑ Helene Eis: Investigation of the industrial area Liesing-Atzgersdorf. Dissertation to obtain the degree of Doctor of Commerce at the University of World Trade. Vienna 1961. p. 17.
  3. ↑ Zoning and development plan (accessed April 28, 2017).

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 2 ″  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 46 ″  E