Ruegers Castle

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Riegersburg Castle
Ruegers Castle

The Riegersburg Castle or since 2017 Castle Rüger is a castle in Riegersburg at Hardegg on the border with the Czech Republic . Riegersburg is the westernmost town in the Hollabrunn district in Lower Austria . Neighboring castles and palaces are the Hardegg Castle , the ruin Kaja , Castle Niederfladnitz and Castle Fronsburg and the Czech Republic Vranov Castle .

Surname

The name "Riegersburg" is most likely derived from the aforementioned Rueger . A similar name appears at this time in connection with the Neudegg ruins near Pulkau. It is not known whether there is a connection here.

In 2017 the lord of the castle, Octavian Graf Pilati, changed the name of the castle to Ruegers .

history

Riegersburg Castle

About the first mention of Riegersburg in the border area of Weinviertel and Waldviertel ( Lower Austria ) there are - depending on the source - different information: The oldest mention comes from the year 1212 (owned by Count Hardegg or followers), another source gives the year 1390 (a castle Rueger s is mentioned) and on the homepage of Schloss Riegersburg, the Counts of Hardegg appear again in connection with the first mention in 1427.

16./17. century

In 1568, Count Sigmund von Hardegg acquired the castle from the Eyczzi , who had owned it since 1441. Instead of the ruined castle, he had a moated castle built and set up his administrative seat for the County of Hardegg, but also his residence here. His son Johann Wilhelm von Hardegg, after he had succeeded him, set about buying up indebted people and thus got himself into a serious financial crisis. After his death in 1635, his estate went bankrupt. His heir Julius von Hardegg took over the debts and sold the counties of Riegersburg and Hardegg in order to repay them.

18th century

Buyers were the Counts of Saint Julien-Wallsee, in turn, the county Hardegg and Riegersburg gentlemen, Prutzendorf and upper and Untermixnitz and all affiliations to the 1725 on August 1, 1730 Imperial Count raised Sigmund Friedrich von Khevenhüller sold.

A few days later, the buyer and his son Johann Joseph Khevenhüller-Metsch , who had co-signed the purchase agreement, set off for Riegersburg, where they found a battered and most likely uninhabitable building. The castle in its present form was built in several phases between 1730 and 1780 according to plans by Franz Anton Pilgram , a student of Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt .

The chapel in the north wing of the castle was consecrated in 1755.

20th century

In 1945 only a few displaced persons from neighboring South Moravia were housed in the castle, then the Soviet occupying forces moved into quarters here. After its removal in 1955, not much was left of the original furnishings. Only in the still functional mansion kitchen did they leave a newly set kitchen stove.

The castle was partially renovated for the Lower Austrian provincial exhibition held in 1993 under the motto "Family - Ideal and Reality".

21st century

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Friedrich Schiller's death , his play " Kabale und Liebe " was filmed for television in 2005 with Götz George , Detlev Buck , Katja Flint , Katharina Thalbach and others under the direction of Leander Haußmann . In addition to Riegersburg Castle, the castles Karlslust near Niederfladnitz, Schrattenthal , Greillenstein and Hagenberg in Loosdorf were among the film locations.

In the years 2003 to 2016 the baroque castle Riegersburg was the scene of numerous art exhibitions (2003 - Praefiguration, 2004 - From Surrealism to Modernism, 2005 - Expressionism, 2006 - A world made of glass., 2007 - Up close - the stuff of dreams, 2008 - On Cupid's wings , 2009 - Art at the time of the Cold War, 2010 - The Power of Fantasy, 2011 - L'Ange Exquis, 2012 - IMAGO - Phantastic Art, 2013 - Dollars, Treasures and Art, 2014 - Magic of the Landscape, 2015 - Simply Fantastic, 2016 - Focus on Abstract) curated by Countess Francesca Pilati von Thassul zu Daxberg, Dr. Cornelia Mensdorff-Pouilly and Mag. Hanno Karlhuber and with the participation of well-known artists such as Ernst Fuchs , Arik Brauer , Lubo Kristek .

Today the castle and the property belonging to it, including Hardegg Castle , belong to Count Pilati von Thassul zu Daxberg by inheritance . It is available for sale in July 2018.

literature

  • DEHIO Lower Austria - north of the Danube ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 (1990)
  • Castles, monasteries and chateaux regions Waldviertel, Danube region, South Bohemia, Vysočina, South Moravia ISBN 978-3-9502262-2-5 , p. 88 ff

Web links

Commons : Schloss Riegersburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at: Riegersburg Castle has a new name . Article dated May 18, 2017, accessed May 18, 2017.
  2. ↑ ART IN THE RUEGERS CASTLE https://www.schlossruegers.at/schloss-riegersburg/kunst-im-schloss/
  3. ↑ Weinheimer Nachrichten April 23, 2016: "Abstract Focus" in the castle
  4. ^ ORF noe: Cornelia Mensdorff-Pouilly - New exhibition on Riegersburg
  5. ↑ Tomorrow magazine 4/15 pages 34–37: "Border-crossing imagination"
  6. ↑ "Burg-Shopping" on the Internet orf.at, July 29, 2018, accessed July 29, 2018.

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 13 ″  N , 15 ° 46 ′ 15 ″  E