Mühlbach Castle
| Mühlbach Castle | |
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 Mühlbach Castle in Mühlbach |
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| Data | |
| place | Mühlbach, Hohenwarth-Mühlbach am Manhartsberg |
| Architectural style | Baroque |
| Construction year | previously a castle, from 1598 new construction / renovation |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 31 '4.7 " N , 15 ° 47' 26.1" E |
Mühlbach Castle is a castle in Mühlbach, a cadastral municipality of Hohenwarth-Mühlbach am Manhartsberg in the Hollabrunn district in Lower Austria . It is a listed building .
history
The parish of Mühlbach ( Mulibach ) was first mentioned in a document in 1083 in a donation to the Göttweig monastery . The Mühlbach family was related to the Burgraves of Gars and the Lords of Maissau . Eberhard is named as the last Mühlbacher in 1318. It was followed by the Wallseer and in 1361 the court churches as lords of the castle. The castle was destroyed in 1481, then remained a ruin for a long time and was only renovated as a renaissance castle from 1598 by Wolf II von Hofkirchen. As a Protestant, Hofkirchen lost its property after 1620, followed by Carl von Carlshofen and Count Engl von Wagrain as owners. From 1840 the Gudenus rebuilt their newly acquired castle in the style of historicism, which is still in their possession today.
architecture
Located in the center of the village, the castle forms a largely intact ensemble with the farmyard, the church, the former parsonage and the landscaped garden, surrounded by the rest of the former moat. The three-storey main castle forms an irregular hexagon in plan. The access to the inner courtyard allows a passage in the compact gate tower, on which the large alliance coat of arms of the families Engl and Sinzendorf is located. The front of the castle is reinforced by two slender corner towers with pointed shingle-covered tent roofs. A flight of stairs in the hexagonal inner courtyard leads to the first floor of the south wing. There is a high four-axis hall, which is spanned by a barrel vault with stitch caps. The ceiling of the next room is decorated with bandwork. Some furnishings from the first half of the 18th century have been preserved in the castle.
Across the street is a former French garden and then an English landscape park with rare trees and a pond from the 18th century.
literature
- Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber : Burgen - Weinviertel , 2005.
- Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube, 1990.
- Gerhard Stenzel: From Castle to Castle in Austria , 1976.
- Laurin Luchner: Castles in Austria I. 1983.
- Georg Clam Martinic: Austrian Burgenlexikon , 1992.
Web links
- Entry about Schloss Mühlbach on Lower Austria Castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Mühlbach to Burgen-Austria
- Entry on Mühlbach Castle in the Austria Forum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Document: Documents (1058-1899) 1083 IX 09 (click on number 2 for the text page of the parchment) in the European document archive Monasterium.net .