Rosenhof Castle
The Rosenhof Castle is a private castle in Upper Austria and lies two kilometers east of the village Sandl in Mühlviertel . The two-storey, horseshoe-shaped castle stands in an extensive park.
history
The castle was built in 1760 by Count Alois Thomas Raymond Harrach as a hunting lodge. In 1773 it came into the possession of Count Ferdinand Bonaventura von Harrach, at that time the owner of the lords of Freistadt and Harrachstal . The Jagdhof got its nickname from his wife and daughter - Rosenhof . It developed into a model agriculture, so flax, potatoes, cabbage and beets were grown and cattle was raised. After the Count's death, his daughter Rosa inherited the entire property. She married Prince Kinsky in 1777 , and he has been owned by this family ever since.
Between 1780 and 1792 the palace was enlarged with the construction of the east wing. After the death of Princess Rosa (1813), the castle was passed on to Count Franz de Paula Josef Kinsky as the sole heir. He had the west wing built in 1827 and gave the castle its current appearance. In 1876, the Kinsky goods administration was relocated here from Harrachsthal and other minor alterations were made.
Towards the end of the Second World War , the Freistadt City Archives were brought to safety here. Soviet soldiers looted the castle in 1945 and also affected the city archives. After 1945 the war damage was repaired, and a general renovation of the castle followed in the early 1980s. Therese Kinsky died in 1973 and Josef Czernin -Kinsky inherited Rosenhof. The castle currently serves as the residential building of the Czernin-Kinsky family.
Outbuildings
The castle also has its own forest management and a sawmill, which are housed in outbuildings. The castle has a considerable forest property around Sandl, the Böhmerwald Straße (B 38) leads in sections through the Herrschaftswald.
Rosenhofer ponds
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The Rosenhofer ponds belong to the castle , the lower (smaller) one is a popular public bathing pond.
The ponds were mainly built to have enough water for the wood flood. In the 19th century a lot of wood was washed over the Flammbach, the Schwarze Aist and the Waldaist into the Aist every spring , where the trunks were then tied into large rafts in Au an der Donau and rafted to Vienna. It was not until 1947 that the labor-intensive and dangerous wood washing was stopped - the logs could now be transported more cheaply by truck and train.
- Rosenhof Castle
Left (western) castle wing
Right (east) castle wing
Rear (from east)
Entrance portal on the back with the coat of arms of the Kinskys
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construction
The two-storey castle is located on the edge of a dense forest not far from the Czech border with a view of the village of Sandl. The horseshoe-shaped complex is grouped around a courtyard. The middle wing has a broken mansard roof , the two side wings are covered with hip roofs. The roof structure is likely to date from the 18th century, the dormer windows from the 19th century.
The facade is straightforward and the entrance gate, flanked by columns, is located in the three-axis central projection protruding from the facade. The hipped roof above is broken through by arched dormers with lateral volutes . The coat of arms of the Kinskys is attached to the garden. In 2010, as part of a general renovation, two extensions were added to the rear of the castle as a boiler house and garage, each with a connecting passage to the existing castle. The castle itself is located in the middle of an extensive park.
Interior decoration
The current interior was taken over from other castles of the Kinsky family. At that time Rosa Kinsky also owned the Kinsky Castle in Freistadt, which later became the hospital in the Linz suburb (today: Zemannstrasse 29). A painting by the Pardubitz Steeplechase hangs in the stairwell . The ballroom is on the northwest corner of the building and is decorated in white and blue. It was built in 1792 and exemplifies Josephine classicism.
literature
- Oskar Hille: Castles and Palaces of Upper Austria , Wilhelm Ennsthaler, Steyr, 2nd edition 1992, ISBN 3850683230
Web links
- Entry via Rosenhof Castle to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ′ 41 ″ N , 14 ° 39 ′ 27 ″ E