Schiltern Castle

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Schiltern Castle
Schiltern Castle

Schiltern Castle

Creation time : 16th to 18th century
Conservation status: Receive
Standing position : Ministerials
Place: Schiltern
Geographical location 48 ° 31 '6.3 "  N , 15 ° 37' 0.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '6.3 "  N , 15 ° 37' 0.2"  E
Schiltern Castle (Lower Austria)
Schiltern Castle

The Castle Schiltern is a powerful until the 18th century by the 16th three-wing building with four round towers. It is in Schiltern, a cadastral municipality of Langenlois in Lower Austria and is a listed building .

history

For the prehistory see local mountain Zori Wall .

Around 1596, Erasmus Leisser had the manor on the western edge of the village expanded into the north wing of today's complex. Between 1629 and 1636, the west and south wings were added. In 1645 the castle was looted and devastated by Swedish troops. Around 1740 the palace was largely redesigned in Baroque style .

The Schad family made the neighboring Kronsegg Castle their seat of power and left Schiltern Castle (today: Zori Wall Ruins) to decay. When Kronsegg no longer met the increased housing needs, Karl Freiherr von Hackelberg , who was now the ruler, returned to Schiltern and moved into the newly built castle, which was looted and devastated by Swedish troops shortly after its completion in 1645. In 1663 the fief went to the brothers Johann, Ehrenreich and Ferdinand von Geymann , who repaired the damage from the Thirty Years' War .

After Schiltern became sovereign again, Johann Graf Fuchs appears as the owner and in 1856 Karl Wolfgang Graf Aichelburg bought the estate as free property .

The municipality of Langenlois bought the castle in 1928 after the last member of the Aichelburg family had died, but passed it on to the Krems Institute of the English Misses a year later , which set up a school and boarding school in the building.

The German Reich confiscated the building in 1938 and handed it over to the SA two years later . After the Second World War , the palace was only briefly occupied by Soviet troops, so that the order was able to resume schooling as early as 1947. However, the castle was in poor shape, which required extensive renovation. John Schleifer, who had emigrated from the Waldviertel to America as an unemployed person after the First World War and made a career there as director of the Chrysler plants, paid the considerable costs of the renovation.

The castle has belonged to the Schiltern GmbH Psychosocial Center since 1987. In the Schiltern Psychosocial Center, people with various psychological impairments are supported in reintegrating into the labor market. Difficult life situations are to be fundamentally improved by means of meaningful employment in workshops, support and support. PSZ Schiltern GmbH has rented parts of the palace garden to the Noah's Ark association .

Building description

The stately two-storey three-wing building from the 16th century on the western edge of the village was later changed several times. For example, during the renovation in 1989/90, some buildings were demolished. The two distinctive round corner towers, which only slightly rise above the ridge level of the roofs, have baroque onion helmets that are covered with shingles. The nine-axis north facade facing the local road is structured by baroque roofing windows, filling panels and a surrounding console cornice. A roof turret with a multiple broken helmet from the 19th century rises above the central axis.

Courtyard-side portal to the west wing

The representative main portal from the early 18th century is flanked by Ionic pilasters. Two large decorative stone vases stand on the cranked entablature. The coat of arms of the Aichelburg family from the 19th century is attached to the portal arch. Garlands of stucco stretch up over the window above.

The courtyard facades are kept simple, only one portal on the west side was richly decorated with stucco in the 18th century. A soldier bust stands between two flower vases on the porch roof. This portal opens up the west wing with its Venetian chimneys and the square groin-vaulted chapel. In the second half of the 20th century, frescoes from around 1760 were uncovered and restored in the chapel, executed in the manner of Johann Leopold Daysinger and depicting, among other things, the Christian virtues and the four evangelists. The canopy of the altar bears the alliance coat of arms of the baronial families Moser and Suttnert. On the first floor there is a hall with a lancet vault on an octagonal central pillar.

Venetian chimney on the west wing

The furnishings are modern and functional, nothing is left of the painting and sculpture collection of the Aichelburg family that was located in the castle.

The palace park on the other side of the street is accessed through a representative Rococo wrought iron gate. A richly stuccoed, graceful garden pavilion stands on a small hill here. The interior was decorated with illusionistic architectural and landscape paintings, only remnants of which have survived.

literature

Web links

Commons : Schloss Schiltern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schiltern Castle on the website of the Schiltern cadastral community , accessed on October 13, 2016
  2. ^ Website of the Psychosozialen Zentrum Schiltern GmbH  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 13, 2016@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schloss-schiltern.at