Merkenstein Castle
The Merkenstein Castle is the first castle in Austria in the Tudor style near Großau but in Gainfarn , a cadastral of Bad Vöslau was built in Lower Austria.
The former farmhouse has been in the years 1801-1803 below the castle ruins Merkenstein in Swiss style built. The builder was Joseph Carl Graf Dietrichstein , the first governor of the kk privileged national bank .
The palace garden was created by Dietrichstein's wife Elisabeth, b. Countess Waldstein-Wartenberg, designed. It was supplemented with historicizing buildings such as a hermitage and a lookout tower. The chapel in the castle garden is much older, probably from the 16th century and was renovated at that time. The Türkenbrunnen was intended to commemorate the destruction of the nearby castle by the Turks in the course of the Second Turkish Siege. The park was open to the public.
In 1829 the Merkenstein estate was sold to Joachim Eduard Count Münch-Bellinghausen , who had the existing country house demolished and a Tudor-style castle built. The planning was carried out by the two architects August Schwendenwein and Johann Romano von Rings .
Münch-Bellinghausen was buried in a crypt under the chapel, which, however, was looted during the time of the Russian occupation. The castle came into the possession of Baron Adolph Brenner von Felsach through inheritance . His son Joachim Brenner von Felsach inherited the castle from him, but he had to sell it in 1912. Other owners were the sawmill operator Leopold Kern and the industrialist Arthur Krupp from Berndorf .
In the last days of the Second World War , the castle was badly damaged. As German property , it was confiscated by the Soviet occupation forces and placed under USIA administration. After the State Treaty , Merkenstein Castle was transferred from the Republic of Austria to the Austrian Federal Forests . In 2000 it was bought by private buyers and restored true to the original. Today Merkenstein Castle is inhabited again.
literature
- Gerhard Trumler- Felix Halmer: Castles and palaces between Baden, Gutenstein and Wr. Neustadt , 1968
- The Book of the Vienna Woods , 1985
- Dehio - Lower Austria south of the Danube , 2003
- Country house and villa in Lower Austria 1840-1914 , 1982
- Helmut A. Gansterer: Thermenregion , 2000
- Gerhard Stenzel: From Castle to Castle in Austria , 1976
Web links
- Merkenstein Castle homepage
- Entry via Merkenstein Castle to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 3.6 ″ N , 16 ° 7 ′ 52.7 ″ E