Stockern Castle

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Stockern Castle, 2011

The Castle Stockern is a building in Stockern in the Lower Austrian municipality Meiseldorf . It is under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

Stockern Castle stands on the site of a fortification that was first mentioned in a document at the beginning of the 13th century. This belonged to the Stockhornern, who belong to the Lower Austrian nobility, as Rudolfus de Stocharan appeared as the oldest known representative as early as 1137-1139. The family split early into an older tribe, that of Heinrich Stockhorner († 1335) and a younger tribe, which started from his brother Konrad Stockhorner († after 1296), named after the Starrein Castle, and in the 17th century after Germany turned where the sex flourishes to this day. From the older tribe, Ernst Stockhorner († soon after 1365) was ducal court marshal on Stockern, Radingdorf and Puchberg in Austria . An honorary position that his son Ernst Stockhorner († around 1400) also exercised. In 1474 the castle was captured by Stephan Freiherr von Eytzing and largely destroyed after Ortolf and Ernst Stockhorner von Stockern fell into the opposition of the nobility against Friedrich III. had connected.

In 1484 Hans von Wullerstorf received permission to rebuild the broken fortress , but did not carry out this project. Either under Ulrich von Haselbach, who took over rule in 1507, or under his successor, the castle was rebuilt as a fortified castle. In 1576 the Counts Lamberg had conversions carried out in the Renaissance style , which gave the castle the appearance documented by Schmidt and still preserved today. The castle later became the property of the Lords of Engelshofen. Pauline Edle von Engelshofen (* 1848; † 1929), the heir to Adolf Reichsritter von Engelshofen auf Stockern, married Richard Gundaccar Freiherrn von Suttner (* 1844; † 1909) in 1870, which means that the rule and the castle in the hands of the barons of Suttner got. who own it to this day. The painting St. Florian Saves the Burning Stockern Castle by Martin Johann Schmidt from 1772 documents a fire in the building. In 1889 Bertha von Suttner wrote her work The Arms down in this castle .

Today it belongs to a farm.

investment

The building and the Meierhof are in a park. Inside the two-storey castle with the round towers at the four corners, which has a rectangular inner courtyard, there are supposed to be old beamed ceilings with stucco ceilings as well as furniture and oil paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The park with its well-preserved late baroque open-air facilities is one of the more important historical gardens in Lower Austria.

literature

  • 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. 1139-1140 .

proof

  • Pages of the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria , Volume 35, 1901, No. 160 Stockern , p. 359 ff.
  1. ↑ Siebmacher's Grosses Wappenbuch; Volume 26, The coats of arms of the nobility in Lower Austria; Part 2, S - Z. page 234 f .; Publisher Bauer & Raspe 1983
  2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Freiherrliche Häuser B VIII. 1982
  3. ^ Description of the castle on austria-forum.org
  4. ↑ A brief history of the castle on wehrbauten.at
  5. ↑ Entry on Stockern in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  6. ^ Eva Berger : Historical Gardens of Austria. Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930 Volume 1 Lower Austria, Burgenland , Böhlau, 2002, ISBN 978-3-205-99305-6 ( ISBN 978-3-205-99477-0 ); P. 580 ff.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 4 "  N , 15 ° 44 ′ 16.1"  E