Orth Castle

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Orth Castle
Castle Orth-5616.jpg
Creation time : First mentioned in 1201
Conservation status: Received or received substantial parts
Place: Orth (Lower Austria)
Geographical location 48 ° 8 '39 "  N , 16 ° 42' 2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '39 "  N , 16 ° 42' 2"  E
Height: 151  m above sea level A.
Orth Castle (Lower Austria)
Orth Castle

The Schloss Ort is located in Orth an der Donau in Lower Austria and is under monument protection .

history

The four- tower moated castle was built by the Lengenbachers , one of the most powerful aristocratic families in the Babenberg era , and was first mentioned in a document in 1201. Structurally, it shows similarities with the oldest part of the Vienna Hofburg , the Swiss wing.

In the 15th century, Orth Castle was the scene of disputes between Emperor Friedrich III. and the Lower Austrian estates, who saw Ladislaus Postumus as their rightful sovereign. On August 15, 1452, the castle was taken by an army of the estates under the leadership of Ulrich von Eyczing from the noble Eyczinger family . After the death of Ladislaus in 1457 new turmoil broke out. In 1460 an imperial army besieged the castle held by Gamareth Fronauer from the noble family von Fronau , which he regarded as his inheritance. In an emergency, Gamareth fled through underground passages, whereupon the castle was taken on March 26, 1460 without a fight.

The castle was destroyed in the course of the first Turkish siege in 1529 and rebuilt in the Renaissance style by Count Niklas Salm the Elder . In the 17th century it was used for court hunts and in 1679/80 it was expanded in a baroque style. Here was immediate west side an annex, called Neuschloss . The Habsburgs bought the castle from Count Moritz von Fries in 1824 and incorporated it into private and family funds. Crown Prince Rudolf used it as a hunting lodge and around 1873 arranged for it to be refurbished in the late historic style.

Orth Castle was renovated in 2005 and houses the National Park Center of the Donau-Auen National Park and the museumORTH as well as the event center, both operated by the Orth market town.

The schlossORTH National Park Center is open daily from March 21st to November 1st and offers information and booking services for guided national park tours, the Danube Rooms exhibition and the Castle Island Auerlebnisgelände with typical animals and plants from the meadow landscape.

Picture gallery

  • Visitor center, museum and seat of the Donau-Auen National Park Administration

  • South view of the castle

  • patio

  • View from the southwest tower

literature

  • Walther Brauneis : The castles in Marchfeld . Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, St. Pölten / Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-85326-617-7 , pp. 15–24.
  • 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. 846-847 .
  • Nikolaus Hofer, Michael Grabner, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Doris Schön, Kinga Tarcsay and Annemarie Täubling: From the moated castle to the Renaissance castle , special issue 15 of the BDA .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Orth (Lower Austria)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 21, 2016 (PDF).