Pötzleinsdorf Castle

Pötzleinsdorf Castle

Detail of the facade

Pötzleinsdorf Castle is a castle and park complex in the western 18th district of Vienna, Währing, in the Pötzleinsdorf cadastral community .

history

The Pötzleinsdorf Palace was formerly known as the "Ricci'scher Freihof" because a certain Ricci had run a textile company there. After the abolition of the monastic rule, the castle was sold to Countess Philippina von Herberstein , who held the rule of Pötzleinsdorf from 1762–1781 and laid the foundation stone for the castle park . After the park had passed to the banker and wholesaler Johann Heinrich Geymüller (1754–1824) in 1797 and the manorial estate in 1801 , Konrad A. Rosenthal had the park laid out in the style of an English landscape garden. At that time, the park's attractions were a waterfall, a Swiss house , a temple and the tomb of the poet Alxinger . Due to the bankruptcy of the banker, the castle subsequently fell into different hands, most recently to that of the furniture manufacturer and patron Max Schmidt (1861–1935). He bequeathed the property to the municipality of Vienna on condition that it be used for public purposes. The City of Vienna opened the park to the public in 1935 and had the palace converted into a youth hostel by Roland Rainer in 1950 . In the process, the neo-baroque outside staircase in front of the central projection of the east facade was removed and the castle-like character on the inside was also removed. The castle has been home to a Rudolf Steiner School since 1993 .

Paul Elsbacher and Eric Lomas have been organizing the Shakespeare summer theater in the park in Pötzleinsdorf Palace since 2013 .

literature

• Renata Kassal-Mikula (Ed.): Stone witnesses. Relics from old Vienna. Wien-Museum, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902312-15-0 , p. 130 f. (Exhibition catalog Wien Museum , Hermesvilla , March 21, 2008 - January 11, 2009).
• Dieter Klein , Martin Kupf , Robert Schediwy : Wiener Stadtbildverluste. A look back over five decades. 3. Edition. LIT, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7754-X .
• Joseph G. Widemann: Mahler forays through the most interesting areas around Vienna. Volume 4. Anton Doll, Vienna 1808, p. 8 ff.

Web links

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

• On the history of the palace and park (with illustration of the state from 1935)
• Rudolf Steiner School Vienna-Pötzleinsdorf Homepage
• Entry via Schloss Pötzleinsdorf to Burgen-Austria

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Spirit of Shakespeare" in the palace gardens. In: wien.orf.at. August 2, 2016. Retrieved November 22, 2018 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 32.7 "  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 20.7"  E