Leitersdorf Castle
The head of the village castle is located in the Moravian town of Litultovice (Head of Village) in Opava country. It consists of two building wings from different style periods, which are connected by a narrow intermediate building. This creates the castle courtyard.
The old castle, one of the oldest structures in that area, was once a moated castle . A later added mansard roof resembled the architecture of the New Palace, which was built in the Renaissance style at the beginning of the 17th century .
location
Leitersdorf Castle with a cadastral size of 443 hectares is located 13 km from Troppau (Opava) , 20 km from Jägerndorf (Krnov) and 40 km from Olomouc (Olomouc) under a hill on the Leitersdorf stream. Farmland and forest alternate. The exact coordinates are 49.54 ° N and 17.45 ° E.
history
Leitersdorf with its castle and its 1035 hectares was a Moravian enclave not far from Opava until the founding of Austrian Silesia in 1742.
The origins of the property can be dated to the year 1281, the name is derived from its founder Litult.
It was built in the 15th century towards the end of the Hussite Wars by the knights Košíř von Leitersdorf and Nassiedel (Košíř z Litultovic a Násilé), whose ownership passed to a certain Obesslik von Litultuvic at the beginning of the 16th century. The dates on the vaults of the vestibule are reminiscent of the Lords of Kaunitz , who owned the estate from 1518 to 1594. They were followed by the Bítovští von Bítov family. After the Battle of White Mountain , the property fell into confiscation in 1621 and became a fief of the Archbishop of Olomouc . It was followed by the feudal lords Orlik Freiherren v. Lažiška until 1694, Görz von Astein until 1704, finally to the von Tetzlern family.
After the last feudal man, Friedrich von Tetzlern, died in 1792, Maximilian Josef Franz Freiherr Putz von Rolsberg acquired the property for 48,000 Austrian guilders from the Archdiocese of Olomouc . It remained in the family until 1945. Karl Borromäus Ferdinand Putz von Rolsberg , who died in 1921, had entrusted the management to his son-in-law Alfred Waldstätten , formerly a baron and high kuk officer.
In 1945 the family was expropriated and expelled by the Czech state. Alfred Waldstätten, who was also the last German mayor of Leitersdorf, was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison, but pardoned after two years. He spent his twilight years in Austria.
The castle was renovated from 1974. Valuable frescoes and inscriptions from the early 17th century were uncovered in the New Palace and a Renaissance ceiling on the first floor, the beams of which are decorated with ornaments and physiognomies of hunting scenes.
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Today the property serves numerous cultural facilities such as a library, social and youth club rooms. In the New Palace with the historic ceilings, meeting rooms and a [very popular] registry office were set up, as well as municipal, chancellery and archive rooms.
Individual evidence
- ^ Maximilian Mayerhoffer: Family tree and evidence of nobility of the Putz von Rolsberg family / in Leitersdorf. Tannheim 1951 p. 246
- ↑ http://www.litultovice.cz/ Official Website Litultovice
- ^ Faustin Ens, "Descriptions of the principalities of Jägerndorf and Neisse, Austrian Antheils and the Moravian enclaves in the Troppauer district", Verlag Carl Gerold, Vienna 1837, pp. 160–161
- ^ Maximilian Mayerhoffer: Family tree and evidence of nobility of the Putz von Rolsberg family / in Leitersdorf. Tannheim 1951 p. 246 ff
- ↑ Troppauer Heimatchronik. Episode 303, St. Otto-Verlag, Bamberg 1975, p. 79 ff
literature
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- Maximilian Mayerhoffer: Family tree and proof of nobility of the Putz von Rolsberg family. Tannheim 1951.
- Troppauer Heimatchronik. Episode 303, St. Otto-Verlag, Bamberg 1975.
- Franz Joseph Schwoy: Topography of the Margraviate of Moravia: Prerauer, Znaymer and Iglauer districts. Printed by Joseph Hraschanzki, Vienna 1794.
- Gregor Wolny : The Margraviate of Moravia. Described topographically, statistically and historically. VI. Volume, published by Karl Winiker, Brno 1846.
- Faustin Ens, “Descriptions of the principalities of Jägerndorf and Neisse, Austrian Antheils and the Moravian enclaves in the Troppauer district”, Verlag Carl Gerold, Vienna 1837
