Seisenegg Castle

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Seisenegg Castle - southeast side

Seisenegg Castle is located in the municipality of Viehdorf not far from the district town of Amstetten in Lower Austria on a narrow rocky ridge on which a double castle complex was already in the 13th century.

history

As early as the 13th century, the Seisenegg double castle can be identified as an important traffic junction between the Danube and the Ybbsfeld . A “Heinrih de Sisaneke” is mentioned around 1267 in a Lilienfeld document.

In 1303 the knightly Payn / Paiger sold their shares in the castle to Heinrich I von Walsee . At the same time, Konrad, son of the outlawed Konrad von Summerau , sold the adjoining free castle stable at Seuseneck to the Walseer. With the inheritance of Walseer of 25 January 1350, the parties came Sewsenekk with Scharnstein Castle , the goods to Enns and other possessions to Reinprecht I of Walsee, who with his successful sons I. Rudolf , Reinprecht II. And Frederick V. called Walseer founded "Branch of Seuseneck". Until it died out in 1483, the people of Walsee had the castle administered by carers. The main expansion of the castle with the mighty keep and the two-storey castle chapel with its extensive fresco cycle also took place during this period.

In 1483 the heiress Barbara von Wallsee brought the property to the Counts of Schaunberg . In 1499 he was followed by Andreas "Krobath" Ritter von Lappitz († 1506), who had already been employed as a nurse on Seisenegg in 1484, after having acquired the rule of Leiben in the Yspertal 11 years earlier . His grandson, the lawyer Ulrich von Lappitz († 1531) is named as the owner of the dominions of Weitenegg, Leiben and Seisenegg.

In 1588 Christoph von Schallenberg married Margaretha Marusch Lappitz von Seisenegg. In 1594 Schallenberg became “Regent of the Lower Austrian Lands” and in 1595 commander of the Danube fleet.

Johann Linsmayer (1542–1608), a lawyer from the Viennese bourgeoisie and imperial councilor in the financial administration, acquired Seisenegg Castle in 1598 and numerous other properties in Lower Austria, such as Weinzierl Castle , Schlickenreith, Edla, the Neustadtl, Freyenstein , Karlsbach and Wasen offices ; and the Radmer copper mine in Styria. There he had the little Greiffenberg castle built. In 1602 he was raised to the hereditary nobility as "Edler von Greiffenberg" and in 1608 received the title of baron.

As a place of baroque aristocratic culture, the castle, which was redesigned into a cozy palace, became an important center of Protestant culture in Lower Austria in the 17th century by the poet Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg in conjunction with the Schallaburg near Melk.

The barons of Risenfels owned the castle from the 17th to the 20th century. Melanie von Risenfels (1898–1984) was married to Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria-Tuscany . As a result of a catastrophic collapse in 1923, the medieval high castle and parts of the renaissance building slowly decayed, but the complex continued to be inhabited. The castle and palace ensemble was only restored in 1991 by Thomas Wassibauer and from 2005 by Maximilian Mautner Markhof .

Current usage

Since 2005, the privately owned castle has housed a cultural center and a registry office and thus offers the setting for concerts and weddings.

  • Seisenegg Castle - west side

  • Seisenegg Castle - gate on the south side

  • Seisenegg Castle - northeast side

  • Seisenegg Castle - north-west side

literature

  • Viktor von Handel-Mazzetti : The Zakking Sumerauer. In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria. Year 11, 1912, pp. 41–115 (esp. Pp. 95–98 and section “The last Sumerau residents and their disappearance from the Seuseneck-Sumerau area.” Pp. 105–112), PDF on ZOBODAT .
  • Max Doblinger : The Lords of Walsee. A contribution to the Austrian aristocratic history. From the archive for Austrian history (Vol. XCV, II. Half, p. 235) reprinted separately (= Archive for Austrian history. Volume 95, pp. 235–578, I-15103/95, ISSN  0003-9322 ). Vienna 1906, 344 pages (especially chapter “The branch of Seuseneck: Reinprecht I sons Rudolf I, Reinprecht II and Friedrich V up to the turn of the 14th century.” Pp. 73-102).

Web links

Commons : Seisenegg Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry about Burg-Schloss Seisenegg on NÖ-Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
  2. ↑ Handel-Mazzetti 1912, p. 95.
  3. ↑ Document: Upper Austrian document book, secular part (540-1399) 1350 I 25 in the European document archive Monasterium.net .
  4. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 73.
  5. ^ Hans Hurch: Christoph von Schallenberg, an Austrian poet of the XVI. Century. Tübingen 1910.
  6. ^ Horst-Joachim Frank: Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg. Life and world of the baroque poet. Sachse & Pohl, Göttingen 1967, p. 10.
  7. ↑ Heimo Cerny: Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg born. Baroness von Seisenegg (1633-1694). Origin, life and work of the greatest German baroque poet. In: Amstettner contributions. Amstetten 1983.
  8. ↑ Entry in Burgen Austria : http://www.burgen-austria.com/archive.php?id=1668
  9. ↑ Great reconstruction of Seisenegg Castle near Amstetten. In: Amstettner Stadtnachrichten. May 26, 1992, p. 9.
  10. ↑ Much new hope for Seisenegg Castle. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten (NÖN), Amstetten edition, week 30/2005, p. 26.

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 12 ″  N , 14 ° 55 ′ 21 ″  E