Pellendorf Castle

Pellendorf Castle
Pellendorf Castle
Creation time :	1670 (in core 1319)
Conservation status:	Receive
Place:	Pellendorf (municipality of Gaweinstal) Austria
Geographical location	48 ° 29 '16.5 "  N , 16 ° 33' 15.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '16.5 "  N , 16 ° 33' 15.8"  E

Pellendorf Castle is a baroque castle about eleven kilometers south of Mistelbach on a hill above the northern part of Pellendorf. On the north side, it forms the last building in the old town.

History of origin

A mansion could have existed in Pellendorf as early as 1257 , because Ulricus de Pellendorf is mentioned in a document that year . Unless there were several families who named themselves after the place, the Pellendorfer resided here until the end of the 15th century, when they should have died out. In 1319 Simo von Pellendorf built a castle, of which the east wing and the bulk box are still preserved. Pellendorf was at this time a fiefdom of the Schottenkloster Vienna , which sold it to the brothers Heinrich, Christoph and Jörg von Liechtenstein . From these it went to Wenzel von Ratzendorf in 1534. In 1564 Kristoph von Ratzendorf sold the rule to Achaz, Leonhard and Hans Enenkel zu Albrechtsberg and in 1590 it went to David von Tiefenbach. His brother-in-law, Franz Jakob Freiherr von Herberstein , took over the property nine years later.

Pellendorf Castle around 1670 by GM Vischer

In 1670 the medieval complex was replaced by a baroque castle after Pellendorf was burned down by the Swedes in 1645. An engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1672 shows that the complex already largely corresponded to its current appearance.

Pellendorf came to Count Franz Eusebius Trautson in 1704 , but was bought back by Countess Katharina Barbara Herberstein in 1716, who sold it to Count Johann Anton Goëss four years later . In 1727 Philipp Ulrich Lorenz Graf Daun acquired the rule, from which it passed to Johann Joseph Graf Khevenhüller-Metsch in 1776 , in whose family she remained until today.

In the middle of the 18th century, as well as in the 19th and first quarter of the 20th century, some changes were made to the castle.

From 1939 to 1944, the castle served as a refugee camp; resettlers to Bessarabia and the Banat were housed here. The damage and neglect of the war and post-war period between 1979 and 1980 was eliminated through an extensive renovation, but the valuable furnishings were lost.

The castle is now inhabited by tenants and is the seat of the "Agropan" estate administration, which was created in 2000 when the estate administrations of Khevenhüller-Metsch, Schönborn ( Hollabrunn ) and Reuss ( Ernstbrunn ) were merged.

As the castle is privately owned, a tour of the interior is not possible.

Building description

Outside

The nine-axis, two-storey east wing from the 17th century with a simple facade and chimneys from the 17th century is accessed through a rusticated arched portal with seating niches in the driveway. The facade is structured by stone window frames and provided with a sundial marked 1674 .

The West Wing has ten and twelve south wing window axes, both of which are three storeys have rectangular windows on the 2nd and 3rd floor with straight Verdachungen on consoles and are mansard hipped roofs completed. The facades are by Kordonbänder divided, at three corners are risalits with Eckquaderung in the plaster.

A baroque portal with pillars, crowned by lions holding coats of arms, adjoins the west wing. The courtyard fronts are designed in the same way as the exterior facades.

A two-storey bulk box from the 17th century stands east of the castle.

Inside

Stucco ceilings from the 17th century, which were slightly changed in the 18th century, can be found partly inside. The furnishings in the south and west wings date from the 18th and 19th centuries. In the south-east risalit, a staircase from 1915 opens up the upper floors.

literature

• Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle a . a. (Arr.): Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria north of the Danube. Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 862.

Web links

Commons : Pellendorf Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry about Pellendorf Castle on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
• Entry via Pellendorf on Burgen-Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Pellendorf on the website of the municipality of Gaweinstal , accessed on July 15, 2017
2. ↑ Pellendorf Castle at www.burgen-austria.com , accessed on July 15, 2017
3. ↑ Pellendorf Castle at www.wehrbauten.at , accessed on July 15, 2017
4. ↑ ^{a b} Dehio, p. 862