Ulmerfeld Castle

Ulmerfeld Castle in 1702 on a painting in the Fürstengang Freising

Ulmerfeld Castle is a castle in Ulmerfeld near Amstetten in Lower Austria .

history

On August 15, 995, Ulmerfeld was mentioned for the first time in an exchange document from Bishop Gottschalk of Passau . The document refers to the handover of Ulmerfeld by King Otto III. to the Bishop of Freising. In 1189 the Freising Monastery acquired the so-called “castle works” for all its possessions from Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa . In 1321 the castle was expanded to become the administrative center and seat of the Freising caretaker .

In 1803 the rule of Freising ended with secularization . Between 1808 and 1823 the castle was under state administration and afterwards changed hands frequently. In 1930 the castle became the property of Neusiedler AG and in 1975 it was acquired by the municipality of Amstetten for a purchase price of 80,000 schillings. Today it serves as a rehearsal hall for the music club and as a youth hostel and also houses community apartments .

The castle houses a local history museum and in the castle tower the historical weapons collection of Ernst Urschitz (* January 12, 1925 - † January 7, 2003) with over 400 exhibits. The 23 m high tower also serves as a lookout point with a panoramic view of the Mostviertel . Weddings can take place in the columned festival hall of the castle.

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  Main entrance with tower

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  Main entrance seen from the courtyard

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  Inner courtyard seen from the tower

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  Castle chapel

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  Entrance to the youth hostel

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  Urschitz weapon collection - knight armor

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  Urschitz weapon collection - chain armor

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  Urschitz weapons collection - various daggers

Web links

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

• Entry about Schloss Ulmerfeld on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
• Entry via Ulmerfeld Castle to Burgen-Austria
• Ulmerfeld Castle on the homepage of the municipality of Amstetten

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Ulmerfeld Castle ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the municipality of Amstetten 
2. ^ The wedding castle of the Mostviertel on the website of the municipality of Amstetten

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 37 ″  N , 14 ° 49 ′ 25 ″  E