Loosdorf Castle

Loosdorf Castle
Conservation status:	Received or received substantial parts
Place:	Fallbach
Geographical location	48 ° 39 '2.8 "  N , 16 ° 26' 57"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '2.8 "  N , 16 ° 26' 57"  E
Height:	254  m above sea level A.

Loosdorf Castle

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Loosdorf Castle is located in the Lower Austrian Weinviertel in the municipality of Fallbach .

Loosdorf emerged at the time of the second Bavarian colonization of the Weinviertel around the middle of the 11th century. In 1416 it was first mentioned in a document as the Lostorff Fortress .

In 1531 Ferdinand I enfeoffed the knight Adam von Gall as thanks for the liberation of the Hungarian city of Gran from the Turks with Loosdorf, his monument is still in the castle courtyard. Via Magdalena Gall von Losdorf, the estate came to her husband Heinrich Matthias von Thurn in 1606 , who was expropriated because of the Bohemian class uprising in 1620. In 1645 the Swedes destroyed the castle, it was only rebuilt in 1680 as a single storey.

From 1732 Loosdorf belonged to Prince Emanuel von Liechtenstein, who built today's castle and church. His grandson Johann I, Prince of Liechtenstein , had the palace rebuilt in the classicism style from 1794 , with the garden facade with the flight of stairs and the state rooms on the first floor being particularly impressive . The Economic Bernhard Petri designed for John I here a romantic, English landscape garden at. The romantic ruins of Hanselburg , located close to the forest, are also reminiscent of the client .

In 1834, Marquis Friedrich August Piatti acquired the property for his family from Northern Italy, who still own it today. In 1945 Loosdorf Castle was badly damaged. In 1959 the castle museum opened with the largest private collection of pewter figures in Austria.

The castle church, which also serves as a parish church, is located next to the castle building with the surrounding park.

Web links

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

• Loosdorf Castle Museum
• Entry about Loosdorf Castle in Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
• Entry via Loosdorf Castle to Burgen-Austria

Individual evidence

1. ^ Zdeněk Novák: Eisgrub-Feldsberg in Moravia. An important document of landscape design in Central Europe . In: Die Gartenkunst 6 (1/1994), pp. 89-104 (91).