Niederhaus Castle
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| Creation time : | after 1662 (previous building before 1256) | |
| Conservation status: | lock | |
| Place: | Pointed | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 21 '56.6 " N , 15 ° 24' 46" E | |
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The lock-down house is a castle in the town of Spitz in the district of Krems-Land in Lower Austria . It is a listed building .
history
The area around Spitz was part of a donation from Charlemagne to the Niederaltaich monastery . The monastery enfeoffed the Counts of Bogen and, after their extinction in 1242, to the Dukes of Bavaria . The castles Oberhaus (rear building) and Niederhaus were given as after-fiefs to various Austrian ministerials , including the Kuenringer , Wallseer and Maissauer .
The Dukes of Bavaria ceded their sovereignty to Emperor Maximilian I in 1504 . At that time there was no longer any question of the rights of Niederaltaich Monastery. In 1507 the emperor sold the rule, the owners were: from 1590 Hans Georg von Kuefstein , in 1667 it was acquired by Otto Lorenz Graf von Abensperg and Traun and from 1674 until the basic relief the Schwallenbach-Zeißing-Spitz rule belonged to the Count Dietrichstein .
The Lower Castle was founded as the second castle next to the rear building in the 13th century. In 1256 it is mentioned for the first time as the seat of a kuenrigischen feudal knight. It is unclear whether the Hinterhaus or Niederhaus Castle was the administrative seat of the Spitzer Pfleger in the late Middle Ages. At the same time as the rear building, Niederhaus Castle was destroyed in 1409 and still referred to as "broken" in 1438. At the end of the 16th century the castle was rebuilt and from then on it was the seat of the caretaker.
In 1613, Hans Lorenz von Kuefstein, with the support of the judge and council of the market town of Spitz, had a new, free-standing palace chapel built on the north-west corner of the palace area for the Protestant church service. When the castle was damaged by the troops of General Bucquoy in 1620, the castle chapel was also destroyed and remained in ruins. In 1662 the castle was ravaged again by fire. It is then repaired in a modified form.
After the Dietrichstein, the castle passed to Countess Therese Herberstein in 1861 , to Erwin Graf Schönborn-Puchheim in 1870 and to the Vienna Citizens Hospital Fund in 1871 . Later owned by the City of Vienna, the castle is now owned by the market town of Spitz.
description
The castle is located immediately west of the town center and the Pfk. at the N-drop of the thousand -bucket mountain . Today's 4-wing building is largely based on a new building in the 2nd half of the 16th and early 17th centuries, which was reduced to 2 storeys after the fire of 1662.
literature
- Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (= Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 1108 .
- Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes, Hartleben Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1925, II, p. 34.
- Bertrand Michael Buchmann , Brigitte Faßbinder: Castles and palaces between Krems, Hartenstein and Jauerling . Castles and palaces in Lower Austria 16 (birch row), St. Pölten / Vienna 1990, p. 34 ff.
- Rudolf Büttner: Castles and palaces on the Danube . Vienna (Birkenverlag) 1977, p. 144 f.
- Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber : Castles - Waldviertel, Wachau, Moravian Thayatal . 2nd edition, Verlag Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , p. 502 ff.
- Franz Eppel : The Wachau . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1975, p. 198.
- Georg Clam-Martinic : Österreichisches Burgenlexikon , Linz 1992, ISBN 9783902397508 , p. 192 f.
- Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3705605305 , p. 367 f.
Web links
- Spitz Castle on the homepage of the market town of Spitz
- Entry via Niederhaus on Burgen-Austria
- Entry about Niederhaus Castle on Lower Austria Castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b See entry about Niederhaus on Burgen-Austria
- ↑ a b c Cf. entry about Niederhaus Castle on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- ↑ Online at Austria Forum