Neuwaldegg Castle

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Neuwaldegg Castle (2010)

Neuwaldegg Palace is a baroque palace with an English garden landscape in the 17th  district of Hernals in Vienna .

history

Neuwaldegg Castle (engraving after Delsenbach , 1719)

The Neuwaldeggerhof as an estate is already documented in 1535, it was destroyed in the second Turkish siege in 1683 .

The palace was built from 1692 to 1697, presumably according to plans by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach for Count Theodor von Strattmann  († 1693) and was therefore originally called the Strattmann Garden Palace . The baroque garden is laid out in terraces and has a dwarf gallery (workshop Matthias Bernhard Braun , around 1719, originally in the castle garden in Cítoliby ).

It was auctioned in 1765 by Franz Moritz Graf Lacy , field marshal to the regent Maria Theresa and advisor to Emperor Josef II . As a result, over three decades until his death in 1801, he laid out a spacious garden, which stretched far into the hunting grounds of the Dornbach Valley and the hills of the Vienna Woods to today's Vienna city limits, and at that time one of the largest and most beautiful parks in Austria was. The baroque terrace garden has been simplified. The landscape garden is considered the first English facility in Austria. The avenue (Schwarzenbergallee) and open meadows, such as the Marswiese , named after a sculpture Resting Mars by Johann Martin Fischer in 1774, are particularly attractive. Moritzruhe is a classicist temple from 1801, the mausoleum of Count Lacy. The Hameau (Holländerdörfl) was a guest house settlement.

In 1801 the castle and park came into the possession of the Schwarzenberg family . Under Hereditary Princess Therese, the palace gardens received their current neo-baroque appearance around 1890 .

In 1951 the palace became the property of the Archdiocese of Vienna . 1978–1986 the interior of the castle was adapted for use as an educational center. In 1985 the municipality of Vienna bought Schwarzenbergpark as a local recreation area . In 2002, the Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe private foundation took over the palace and enabled the palace with its baroque garden to be used again for all kinds of events. Since 2010, the palace has been the location of the Franz Schubert Conservatory .

The garden is one of the most important garden architectural monuments in Austria and is under monument protection ( No. 49 in the appendix to Section 1, Paragraph 12 of the DMSG , and the baroque garden in the list of monuments for the entire complex , as well as part of the Neuwaldegger Castle Park (Neuwaldegger Allee and others) ). Park and lock belonging to the conservation area Hernals -Wienerwald ( LSG 6 , Part A; ges 6 sq km.).

Neuwaldegg Castle in culture

The castle was the location for the TV film Grandma Reluctantly from 2012 and Back to Life in 2013.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Neuwaldegg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Géza Hajós ; Matthias Cremer (Ill.): Historical gardens in Austria: forgotten total works of art. Austrian Society for Historical Gardens, Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 1993, ISBN 978-3-205-98095-7 , Der Barockgarten von Schloß Neuwaldegg , p. 283 ff ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ^ A b c Eva Berger: Historic Gardens of Austria: Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930 . tape 3 Vienna . Böhlau, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-205-99353-7 , Vienna, Schloßpark, Schloß Neuwaldegg (Schwarzenberg Castle, Dornbacher Park) , p. 368 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / programm.orf.at
  4. ↑ http://www.pressemmeldung.com/2013/10/16/erstausrichtung-vom-fernsehfonds-austria-gefoerderte-produktion-mit-christiane-hoerbiger-zurueck-ins-leben-am-18-10-in-der -ard /

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 5 ″  N , 16 ° 17 ′ 15 ″  E