Schwallenbach Castle
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| Alternative name (s): | Glöckerl from Schwallenbach | |
| Creation time : | after 1463 (predecessor before 1243) |
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| Castle type : | Location | |
| Conservation status: | lock | |
| Place: | Pointed | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 20 '23.5 " N , 15 ° 24' 12.1" E | |
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The Schwallenbach Castle is a castle in the village of Spitz ( cadastral Schwallenbach ) in the district of Krems-Land in Lower Austria . It is a listed building .
history
Schwallenbach once belonged together with Spitz to the area that Charlemagne gave to the Bavarian monastery Niederaltaich . The place name should be derived from the personal name Sualo or Suelo. From the middle of the 13th century, the dukes of Bavaria were bailiffs of the areas around Schwallenbach. Their after-vassals , the Kuenringers , appointed low-nobility clients as feudal people. The first known lords of the castle were Engelschalcus and Chunradus de Swelpach in 1243.
Fiefs were among others the Kapeller , Seyfried Ritzendorfer, Jörg Scheck von Aggstein and the brothers Hans and Michael Schratt. Their successors, the Neidegger, united Schwallenbach with Spitz and Zeißing.
In 1463 the troops of Georg von Podiebrad burned down the place and the castle. Both were soon rebuilt.
In 1504/07 the Bavarian property fell to the Habsburgs. As a result, Schwallenbach was sold to the Kuefstein as a free owner in 1590 . Later it was owned by Anna von Polheim zu Ottenschlag and Aggstein (died 1617), and she converted the castle into a palace. Around 1650 the property went to Franz Melchior Forest, in 1871 to the Wiener Bürgerspitalfonds , later to private.
The popular inn "Das Glöckerl von Schwallenbach" was located in the castle until 1960.
description
The castle is located in Schwallenbach , about 3 km upstream from Spitz. It is opposite the branch church of St. Sigismund and is an irregular, two-storey four-wing building from the 16th century with a sloping northeast edge, which is laid out around an approximately square courtyard. The massive five-storey tower is integrated into the south wing. It is opened by stone-clad windows from the mid-16th century and is crowned by renewed dovetail battlements.
Viewing is only possible from the outside.
literature
- Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes, Hartleben Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1925, I, p. 33.
- Bertrand Michael Buchmann , Brigitte Faßbinder: Castles and palaces between Krems, Hartenstein and Jauerling . Castles and palaces in Lower Austria 16 (birch row), St. Pölten – Vienna 1990, p. 28 ff.
- Rudolf Büttner: Castles and palaces on the Danube . Birkenverlag, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-85030-017-X , p. 140.
- Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (= Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 1067 .
- Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber : Castles - Waldviertel, Wachau, Moravian Thayatal . 2nd edition, Verlag Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , p. 497 f.
- Franz Eppel : The Wachau . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1975, p. 193.
- Georg Clam-Martinic : Österreichisches Burgenlexikon , Linz 1992, ISBN 978-3-902397-50-8 , p. 187.
- Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3-7056-0530-5 , p. 363.
- Hans Tietze : The monuments of the political district Krems . Austrian Art Topography I, Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1907, p. 375.
Web links
- Entry via Schwallenbach to Burgen-Austria
- Entry on Schwallenbach in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry about Schwallenbach on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
- Schwallenbach Castle at Wehrbauten.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e See entry about Schwallenbach on Burgen-Austria
- ↑ a b c See entry about Schwallenbach on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- ↑ See also Niederhaus Castle
- ↑ Online at Austria Forum
- ↑ Online at Digitalisat