Petronell Castle
Petronell Castle (also Traun Castle ) is a castle in Petronell-Carnuntum , a market town in the Lower Austrian district of Bruck an der Leitha .
history
Petronell Castle was rebuilt after previous buildings (medieval castle, renaissance castle) from 1660 to 1667 by Dominico Carlone (around 1615–1679) in the form of a four-winged castle complex for the Abensperg-Traun family in the early Baroque style. The baroque building was firmly in Italian hands , the brothers Ambrosius and Giorgio Regondi , master stonemasons from Kaisersteinbruch , received large orders: Kaiserstein for the outside staircase, the two columns that support the tower , window frames, the Pallustrata , ... finally the stone parts for the portal. The plasterers Giovanni Castello and Giovanni Piazoll, the fresco painter Carpoforo Tencalla , the foreman Marcello Ceresola, and Thadeo Piro worked here to paint and paint the doors in the Sala terrena , the builder Carlo Canevale completed the construction. In 1683 the castle was set on fire by the Turkish army moving to Vienna and rebuilt from 1690 under Otto Ehrenreich I von Abensperg-Traun . The ceiling of the ballroom had to be renewed after the fire caused by the Turkish army and re-frescoed by Johann Bernhardt von Weillern , as both the ceiling construction and the fresco by Tencalla were destroyed by the falling roof structure. Both the architectural painting created by Tencalla on the walls of the ballroom and the ceiling fresco by Weillern were - according to the latest research - painted over to around 80% in two restorations (the last around 1950). According to the research, the frescoing of the walls (Tencalla) has been preserved under the overpainting in very good condition. The ceiling fresco was restored in 2011/12.
In 1830–50, both the outer facade and the courtyard facade (only to a lesser extent) were redesigned. The room layout and most of the windows were also redesigned and changed in 1830–50.
The castle was owned by the Abensperg and Traun families for 17 generations and was sold to a private investor in 2006.
The castle is a three-storey building around a large courtyard with an outside staircase and four octagonal corner towers. Across a brick bridge, through the baroque stone portal, you enter the courtyard of the castle, which has a strongly structured baroque facade. The outside staircase (under the clock tower with a conical roof) leads to the large ballroom (360 m²). Sights include the Fresco Hall (ballroom), the Sala terrena , the Golden Ancestral Hall and the hunting room.
The version of the court (pink / gray / yellow) was found to be the last valid one in 1974 by the Federal Monuments Office after various investigations.
Great staircase 1999
Inner courtyard 2007
Sala Terrena 2007
Castle renovation 2009
Sala Terrena June 2012
Ballroom September 2012
Castle fountain
Development today
Despite the restoration and renovation work being carried out on the palace, some rooms (Sala Terrena, ballroom) can host weddings or other events. Due to the work that is taking place, a visit is only possible at public events (ballroom).
The castle formed the backdrop for the films " Katharina - Die Nackte Zarin " in 1983 and for "The Three Musketeers" in the 1990s with Charlie Sheen , Chris O'Donnell and Kiefer Sutherland in the leading roles. In 1996 Luciano Pavarotti and Elton John shot their joint music video “Live Like Horses” in the ballroom. Even Crown Prince Rudolf's last love with Omar Sharif and Klaus Maria Brandauer was turned in the lock. In 2006 Paulus Manker's interactive play “ Alma - A Show to the End ” about the life of Alma Mahler-Werfel was performed here.
The novels by Philipp Abensperg-Traun Everything in Flow: A Childhood Novel and I'm Healthy and Good Things are set in Petronell Castle, among other places.
literature
- Werner Kitlitschka : The Petronell Castle in Lower Austria. Contributions to the history of construction and its importance in art history .
- Helmuth Furch : Italians in the quarry on Leithaberg . The brothers Ambrosio and Giorgio Regondi from Milan . In: Messages from the Kaisersteinbruch Museum and Culture Association . No. 12, 1991, pp. 6-13. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
Web links
- Photo gallery
- Entry via Petronell Castle to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 59 ″ N , 16 ° 51 ′ 38 ″ E