Prandhof Palace
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| Alternative name (s): | Brandhof Castle, Niederranna Castle | |
| Creation time : | 1728 to 1731 | |
| Conservation status: | lock | |
| Place: | Mühldorf | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 22 '37.4 " N , 15 ° 21' 0.2" E | |
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The Prandhof Palace is a baroque palace in the municipality of Mühldorf (KG Niederranna) in the Krems-Land district in Lower Austria . It is a listed building .
history
Already at the end of the 11th century there was a slightly fortified manor house that belonged to the Lords of Grie. These owned the entire area between the Danube , Gföhler Wald and Jauerling . Under Margrave Leopold III , the saint, the rulership became sovereign. He handed the castle to Grie, as the Prandhof was called at that time, to his sister Gerbirg, who was married to the former Bohemian King Boriwoy . When he was exiled to Hungary, she lived here and in the neighboring Oberranna Castle . Since she entered the nunnery of the Göttweig Abbey in 1124 after the death of her husband , she handed over the court in Niederranna to him. The monastery now used it as a court yard for its possessions in Mühldorf, Niederranna and Kottes and as an apartment for the respective caretaker. The bailiwick rights lay with the Lords of Oberranna. In the 15th century, the Prandhof was pledged or leased several times. It only got its name after it burned down in 1497. Abbot Matthias Schachner had it restored in 1501. In the Thirty Years' War the rule suffered badly. In 1618 Niederranna was plundered by Bohemian troops. When the economic situation of the monastery improved again around 1700, the Prandhof took over its own administration again, this being done by the canons who had their residence here.
The abbot Gottfried Bessel , who was keen to build , had the courtyard converted into a baroque hunting and summer palace between 1728 and 1731 using older components. In order to be able to enlarge the system accordingly, part of the neighboring cemetery with the Gothic Karner had to give way. Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt is presumed to be the architect of the palace , who has also been in charge of the planning for the new building of the monastery since 1719. The stone carvings were carried out by Johann Stephan Pacassi.
In 1848 the landlords in Austria were abolished. With that, the Prandhof lost its function as an office building. At the beginning of the 20th century, the doctor Dr. Hacker set up one of the then very popular cold water healing institutions. When this was closed again in 1921, the monastery sold the now heavily neglected and uninhabited building to a group of investors who wanted to tear it down and build houses in its place. The ballroom wing and the right wing of the palace fell victim to this, but only one new building was built. In 1933, the Austro-American Laurent Deleglise , who also saved Oberranna Castle, bought the half-ruin. He started the renovation and rebuilt the right wing. During the Second World War, Deleglise was forced to “sell” the castle. After 1945 he got the building back, which had been badly damaged and devastated in the last days of the war. In 1975 Friedrich Deutsch bought the Prandhof. He had an extensive restoration carried out, which restored the Hildebrandt Castle to its former glory as much as possible.
description
The Prandhof is located directly on the road that leads from Mühlbach to Oberranna Castle. The baroque palace consisted of four wings that surrounded a narrow, rectangular inner courtyard. Only the eight-axle south wing and the adjoining eastern front are preserved today. Not only has the magnificent ballroom with its stucco ceiling and painted door frames been torn down, but also the oval castle chapel clad in marble and stucco and the representative staircase with its wall niches framed by pilasters. Nothing has survived from the previous medieval building. Today the facades are colored red and white. Some interior rooms still have stucco ceilings from the time it was built.
literature
- 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. 794 .
- Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes, Hartleben Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1925, I, p. 34 f.
- Bertrand Michael Buchmann , Brigitte Faßbinder: Castles and palaces between Krems, Hartenstein and Jauerling . Castles and palaces in Lower Austria 16 (birch row), St. Pölten / Vienna 1990, p. 17 ff.
- Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber : Castles - Waldviertel, Wachau, Moravian Thayatal . 2nd edition, Verlag Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , p. 333 f.
- Georg Clam-Martinic : Österreichisches Burgenlexikon , Linz 1992, ISBN 9783902397508 , p. 163.
- Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3705605305 , p. 245 f.
- Hans Tietze : The monuments of the political district Krems . Austrian Art Topography I, Vienna 1907, p. 331 f.
Web links
- Entry via Prandhof (Niederranna) to Burgen-Austria
- Entry via Schloss Prandhof on Lower Austria Castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Prandhof Palace at Wehrbauten.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d See entry about Prandhof (Niederranna) on Burgen-Austria
- ↑ Online at Austria Forum