Rothschild Castle

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Rothschild Castle in Hinterleiten (Reichenau ad Rax)

The Rothschild Castle or Castle Hinterleiten in Hinterleiten in the Lower Austrian municipality of Reichenau an der Rax was until 1889 in Neo 1884 XIII style Louis for Nathaniel Meyer Baron Rothschild designed by the Viennese architect Amand Louis Bauque and Albert Emilio Pio built. The complex, which consists of two parts, the staff wing and the actual castle, was never completed and finally donated to the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry as a home for disabled subaltern officers .

history

Baron Nathaniel Rothschild often stayed in Reichenau an der Rax in the summer, where he stayed in the Hotel Fischer branch. In 1884 he commissioned the architects Armand-Louis Bauqué and Albert Emilio Pio, trained in Paris and resident in Vienna from around 1880, who were also involved in the planning of his villa on the Hohe Warte in today's Heiligenstädter Park and in the construction of his city ​​palace in Vienna the planning of the castle. The Viennese construction company Heinrich and Franz Glaser was entrusted with the construction . The castle was supposed to put the nearby Wartholz Castle in the shade of Archduke Karl Ludwig .

After the staff wing was completed, Rothschild moved into the new building in 1887, but had construction work on the actual castle halted in 1889 and donated the facility to the Association for Breast Sicknesses; after protests from the community, he donated it to the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry as a home for disabled subaltern officers .

During the Second World War , the palace served as a rest home for orphans from Potsdam and later as a hospital.

It is owned by the “United Old Austrian Military Foundations” and is partly used for cultural and official events.

description

The castle, which is surrounded by a 19 hectare park, consists of a main building and a staff wing, each with a different architectural style. The four-wing staff wing with inner courtyard is built in a rustic country house style as a half-timbered building, while the actual castle, a natural and brick building in the Louis XIII style, with its multifaceted facade and the different dormer , gable and chimney shapes of the strongly structured roof landscape, the need for representation of the client.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Entry about Reichenau - Rothschild Castle on Burgen-Austria
  2. ^ Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy: Les Rothschild bâtisseurs et mécènes . Flammarion, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-08-012968-6 , pp. 156–161 (Rothschild Castle in Reichenau ad Rax. An extraordinary country estate in Lower Austria. Ulrich Feldhahn. In: ARX. Castles and palaces in Bavaria, Austria and South Tyrol. 2/2019, pp. 25-29 ISSN  0394-0624 ).
  3. ^ Franz Glaser junior. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770-1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  4. ↑ Entry on Reichenau an der Rax in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  5. ^ Homepage United Old Austrian Military Foundations. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  6. ^ Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy: Les Rothschild bâtisseurs et mécènes . 1995, p. 183 f .

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Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 37 ″  N , 15 ° 49 ′ 35 ″  E