Oberstockstall Castle

Castle and chapel seen from the Hausbergkante

The Oberstockstall Castle (also: Gut Oberstockstall ) is an estate that was redesigned like a castle during the Renaissance in the southwest of the village of Oberstockstall in the market town of Kirchberg am Wagram in Lower Austria .

history

The property was built over a medieval building in the middle of the 16th century . At the beginning of the 17th century it was extended to the north and by the late 17th century economic wings expanded. The previous building originally served as a farm yard for the Diocese of Passau and was expanded as a mansion seat by Canon Christoph Trenbähk in 1548 . In the 18th century it was the administrative seat of the Passau cathedral chapter .

In 1980 the owner discovered a room accessible from the chapel that contained all the equipment of a 16th century alchemist laboratory. With more than 1000 objects, this complex is the largest closed find of its kind. The finds can be viewed in the specially set up Alchemist Museum in the old town hall of Kirchberg am Wagram.

The main building and the accompanying walled garden are privately owned and not open to the public. Other parts are used gastronomically.

architecture

The Oberstockstall Castle is an irregular, two- to three-story complex with residential and farm buildings around a rectangular inner courtyard. The south wing connects to the church in the west. The three-storey quarry stone building , whose core dates back to the 14th century, was rebuilt several times from the beginning of the 16th century. Two late Gothic window reveals from the beginning of the 16th century can still be seen on the south side . A walled-up shoulder arch portal on the north side probably dates from the 14th century. The T-shaped adjoining three-storey west wing has a stair tower on the courtyard side . The same high, northern extension, an extension with different storeys, was built at the beginning of the 17th century. At the staircase there is a secondary renaissance portal with rosette decoration . The two-storey gate building with plastered ashlars is accessible through a flat arched driveway. Two-story residential and farm buildings are located on the north side. The upper floor of the residential wing can be reached from the courtyard via an outside staircase and a dais on pillar arcades. There are single-storey farm buildings on the east side.

In the west wing there are some Renaissance portals and a secondary, offset, Gothic shoulder arch portal. On the first floor there is a barrel vaulted room with a stucco ceiling from the first half of the 17th century.

Castle chapel

On the south side of the castle rises the narrow, lofty chapel from around 1320 , equipped with buttresses . Its facade is broken through in the east by a two-lane window and in the north and south by a one-piece tracery window. It is accessible through an ogival portal on the north side. There is a cruciform opening below the gable. The roof turret with gable helmet comes from the 16th / 17th centuries. Century. At the northwest corner is a remarkable Gothic holy water font with grotesque masks.

The interior is covered by a three-bay ribbed vault on slender bundles. The straight ending is interpreted as a five- eighth ending with diagonal corners . Other features include round keystones with bird reliefs, a surrounding coffee cornice and ogival seating niches.

The furnishings include a wall painting depicting Saint Christopher from the first half of the 14th century, an early Baroque altar with the Good Shepherd altarpiece , marked 1653, an oval top image of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary , a holy water basin with tracery from the construction period and the Gothic stone figure of a knight .

literature

Falko Daim (Ed.): Castles - Weinviertel . 1st edition, Verlag Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7079-0713-9 , pp. 227-231.
Georg Dehio (greeting), Evelyn Benesch u. a. (Ed.): Lower Austria north of the Danube ( The art monuments of Austria ). Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , p. 836.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Oberstockstall - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry via Oberstockstall on Burgen-Austria
Entry on Schloss Oberstockstall (Winkelberg) in the Austria Forum

Individual evidence

^ Sigrid von Osten: The alchemist laboratory Oberstockstall: a complex of finds from the 16th century from Lower Austria . In: Monographs on early history and medieval archeology . tape 6 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, 1998, ISBN 978-3-7030-0317-2 .
^ Rudolf Werner Soukup, Helmut Mayer: Alchemistisches Gold, Paracelsistische Pharmaka: Laboratoriumstechnik in the 16th century . In: Perspectives on the History of Science . tape 10 . Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-205-98767-3 .
↑ Alchemist Museum. Museum Management Lower Austria, accessed on February 18, 2012 .
^ Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria: Lower Austria, Burgenland . Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-205-99305-6 , pp. 429 .

48.44008 15.90824Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '24.3 " N , 15 ° 54' 29.7" E

[1] Sigrid von Osten: The alchemist laboratory Oberstockstall: a complex of finds from the 16th century from Lower Austria . In: Monographs on early history and medieval archeology . tape 6 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, 1998, ISBN 978-3-7030-0317-2 .

[2] Rudolf Werner Soukup, Helmut Mayer: Alchemistisches Gold, Paracelsistische Pharmaka: Laboratoriumstechnik in the 16th century . In: Perspectives on the History of Science . tape 10 . Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-205-98767-3 .

[3] Alchemist Museum. Museum Management Lower Austria, accessed on February 18, 2012 .

[4] Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria: Lower Austria, Burgenland . Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-205-99305-6 , pp. 429 .