Rastbach Castle

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Rastbach Castle (2011)

The Rastbach Castle is located in the village street Rastbach in the community Gföhl Lower Austria.

history

The castle was mentioned in a document in 1159, belonged to Hartwich von Lichteneck in 1192 and Maximilian von Pollheim in 1594. From 1652 Ferdinand Viktor Baron Teufel owned the estate. His widow married Count Ferdinand Ernst Herberstein. Rastbach stayed with this family until 1805 when Dr. Franz Ritter von Heintl bought. In 1840, the barons of Ehrenfels acquired the rulership of Brunn am Walde, which included Lichtenau and Rastbach. Their descendants have remained landowners and castle owners to this day. Among them was the Austrian writer Imma von Bodmershof , who lived here from 1924. The current owner is Rolf Peter Ehrenfels.

Building description

The two-storey three-wing complex from the late 16th and early 17th centuries has a courtyard open to the south. The castle is structurally connected to the Rastbach parish church - initially like a castle - and has a moat to the northeast at the castle path .

On the north side, the castle has a round arched entrance gate with curbstones and a rectangular pedestrian portal with a square frame. On the courtyard side is a round arch portal with volute wedge stone and remains of a diamond ashlar carving from around 1600. The north and east wings are provided with stone-clad windows and a cornice on brackets on the outside and on the courtyard side and show oval hatches in the attic storey. The east wing has a higher eaves line and rectangular stone clad windows in the attic storey. The west wing has a crooked roof on the south side and arbor on massive round pillars from the 19th century. There is a stone fountain basin with a relief shield from 1610.

In the west wing there is a two-aisled, four-bay, groin-vaulted columned hall around 1600 with a groin-vaulted corridor on the upper floor. In the east wing there is a wide needle cap barrel on pillars, in the former connection area with masonry in Opus spicatum . There is a walled-in round arch, probably from the former ossuary .

To the northeast at the foot of the castle hill are three farm buildings as single-storey tracts from the 18th and 19th centuries. A three-aisled, three-bay pillar hall is vaulted in the east wing.

literature

  • Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 , Rastbach, Schloss, p. 945.
  • Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes. Vienna / Leipzig 1925, II, 19
  • Bertrand Michael Buchmann, Brigitte Fassbinder: Castles and palaces between Gföhl, Ottenstein and Grafenegg. Castles and palaces in Lower Austria 17 (birch row), St. Pölten / Vienna 1990, p. 17 f.
  • Falko Daim , Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber (eds.): Castles Waldviertel - Wachau - Moravian Thayatal. Vienna 2009, 165 ff.
  • Georg Clam-Martinic : Austrian Castle Lexicon. Linz 1992, 176
  • Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau. St. Pölten 2001, 129 f.
  • Franz Eppel : The Waldviertel. Austrian art monograph I. 7th edition, Salzburg 1978, p. 190.
  • Karl Schwarz, Walter Enzinger (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch Rastbach. Gföhl 1998, pp. 12 ff., 90 ff., 112 ff., 331 ff.

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '23.2 "  N , 15 ° 25' 40.1"  E