Obersiebenbrunn Castle

Obersiebenbrunn Castle
	Obersiebenbrunn Castle
Creation time :	17th century
Conservation status:	Received or received substantial parts
Geographical location	48 ° 15 '59.2 " N , 16 ° 42' 35" E Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '59.2 " N , 16 ° 42' 35" E
Height:	151 m above sea level A.

Obersiebenbrunn Castle is a baroque palace with gardens in the municipality of Obersiebenbrunn in the Gänserndorf district , Austria .

It is used today as a Coptic monastery. In principle, it is part of the Marchfeldschlösser (Marchfelder Schlösserstraße) , but not yet integrated into the joint marketing.

history

The oldest surviving mention of the previous building comes from 1343. In the 16th century, the Grabner zu Rosenburg lords of Siebenbrunn. After several changes of ownership, a renovation in the early baroque style took place in the 17th century under Georg Wilhelm Jörger .

The castle was given to Emperor Charles VI in 1725 . sold, who gave it to Prince Eugene of Savoy that same year . In 1725 and 1726 a new Baroque adaptation took place. The castle was owned by the Kollonitsch family until 1874 .

In 2001 the building was acquired by the Coptic Church . It has been used as a monastery ever since and is no longer accessible. With the exception of the equestrian center, the park is free to enter, but has opening times (as of 2015 ^{[out of date]} ).

description

Main building

Ober Siebenbrunn around 1873 ( recording sheet of the state survey )

The baroque four-wing building has a south-facing, risalit-like projecting and elevated gate tower with a triangular crown. Above the grooved ground floor there are windows on the south side with window roofs arranged in a rhythmic manner. The other facades are designed more simply, the sides also with central risaltit tract.

The building is a listed building .

Southeast view
portal
West facade

Farm buildings: riding stables, priest's house, bulk box, gardener's house

The economic area of the castle estate is located on both sides of the castle. Here are:

The riding stable , an elongated oval structure made of wood
Some farm buildings, a line of elongated, mostly single-storey buildings at the western end of the area. After these, the address is still called In den Stübeln
The hunger tower , the old building of the manorial jurisdiction
The front building on the market side is the Priest's House , a two-story building from the second half of the 18th century with a simple facade structure and Josephine window bars . The octagonal central chimney and pyramid roof are attractive.
To the east of the castle stands the bulk box , a massive but simple two-storey storage building from the 18th century
At the south-east end of the palace area is the gardener's house , one-storeyed, but thanks to renovation, its old substance cannot be read today

Farm buildings with hunger tower, priest's house, bulk box and gardener's house are also listed , some of the farm buildings are used by the riding club.

The priest house
Baroque window grille of the priest's house
Farm buildings and the hunger tower
The bulk box

Park

Prince Eugene had the baroque park north of the palace, with eight star-shaped avenues running through a pavilion, created around 1725 by the well engineer and garden architect Dominique Girard (around 1680–1738). The facility intended for hunting was part of the Eugene land development in Marchfeld, which also includes Hof Castle and Niederweiden Castle .

The former baroque park, a 4.26 hectare hunting park, has been completely preserved in its complex. It is one of the most important baroque parks in Austria and is designated as such as a garden monument within the meaning of the Monument Protection Act ( No. 17 in the appendix to Section 1, Paragraph 12 of the DMSG , list of monuments Schlosspark Obersiebenbrunn (formerly Baroque hunting park) ), as well as a nature reserve below the protection of the Lower Austrian Nature Conservation Act ( NSG 22 ).

There are green areas and former water basins in the vicinity of the castle.

Old line of sight to the back of the lock
overgrown park
overgrown pond

Garden pavilion

Inside the park there is a baroque garden pavilion from 1728, which was designed by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt (1668–1745). He stands in the center of the hunting star .

The elliptical building with a mansard hipped roof , reminiscent of a Turkish tent, is dominated by four rectangular portals and symmetrically arranged windows in between. In the small hall, the horizontal cornice divides the rich grotesque paintings created by Jonas Drentwett . They are depictions of rural and hunting life.

The building was completely renovated in 1965 and is a listed building .

Garden pavilion
Interior view of the garden pavilion

literature

Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): The art monuments of Austria - Lower Austria north of the Danube . Verlag Berger, Horn o. J.
Christian Hlavac, Werner Sellinger: Obersiebenbrunn Palace Park . In: Historical gardens and parks in Austria. Christian Hlavac, Astrid Göttche and Eva Berger (eds.). Pp. 121-125. Böhlau publishing house. Vienna 2012. ISBN 978-3-205-78795-2 .

Web links

Commons : Obersiebenbrunn Palace - collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on Obersiebenbrunn: Pictures in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Entry about Obersiebenbrunn Castle on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
Entry via Obersiebenbrunn - Castle on Burgen-Austria
Entry via Obersiebenbrunn - garden pavilion on Burgen-Austria
Obersiebenbrunn on austria-forum.org

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Reitstall Schloss Obersiebenbrunn ( memento from October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), homepage of RC Schloss Obersiebenbrunn, obersiebenbrunn.nozicka.at
^ Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria: Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930 . tape 1 Lower Austria, Burgenland . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-205-99305-6 , Obersiebenbrunn, Schloßpark , p. 427 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Ordinance on nature reserves . Stf LGBl 5500 / 13–0 (as amended online, ris.bka ).
↑ Vincent Mayr: Observations on Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt's garden pavilion in Obersiebenbrunn . In: Die Gartenkunst 4 (2/1992), pp. 232–235.
↑ Garden pavilion of Obersiebenbrunn Palace . Burgen und Schlösser, in Eternit , magazine of Eternit-Werke Ludwig Hatschek, No. 28, Vöcklabruck 1965, pp. 28-29 ( online ( memento from June 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), doku-obersiebenbrunn.g-zier.at ).

[Reitstall-1] Reitstall Schloss Obersiebenbrunn ( memento from October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), homepage of RC Schloss Obersiebenbrunn, obersiebenbrunn.nozicka.at

[Berger_2002-2] Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria: Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930 . tape 1 Lower Austria, Burgenland . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-205-99305-6 , Obersiebenbrunn, Schloßpark , p. 427 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[3] Ordinance on nature reserves . Stf LGBl 5500 / 13–0 (as amended online, ris.bka ).

[4] Vincent Mayr: Observations on Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt's garden pavilion in Obersiebenbrunn . In: Die Gartenkunst 4 (2/1992), pp. 232–235.

[5] Garden pavilion of Obersiebenbrunn Palace . Burgen und Schlösser, in Eternit , magazine of Eternit-Werke Ludwig Hatschek, No. 28, Vöcklabruck 1965, pp. 28-29 ( online ( memento from June 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), doku-obersiebenbrunn.g-zier.at ).