Wallsee Castle

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Wallsee Castle
Wallsee Castle on the Danube

Wallsee Castle on the Danube

Place: Wallsee - Sindelburg, AustriaAustriaAustria 
Geographical location 48 ° 10 '10.6 "  N , 14 ° 42' 53.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 10 '10.6 "  N , 14 ° 42' 53.8"  E
Height: 266  m above sea level A.
Wallsee Castle (Lower Austria)
Wallsee Castle
Driveway and gate tower

The Wallsee Castle is a former manor in the market town Wallsee- Sindelburg in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria .

Wallsee Castle was closely linked to the local economy from the Middle Ages until around 1920.

From 1895 it was inhabited by Archduchess Marie Valerie , a daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph and Elisabeth, with her husband, Archduke Franz Salvator . On June 11, 1895, Marie Valerie and Franz Salvator bought the castle from the owner at the time, Duke Alfred von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha, and had it completely renovated. After completion, the couple made a festive entry into the castle on the Danube on September 4, 1897. There was great jubilation in Wallsee . On April 24, 1918, her daughter Hedwig of Austria-Tuscany married Count Bernhard zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1881–1952) here; this marriage resulted in nine children. The castle is still family-owned today, most recently by Franz Salvator Habsburg-Lothringen (1927–2013), and is not open to the public. Some Habsburgs are buried in a crypt behind the main altar of the Sindelburg parish church.

literature

  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria south of the Danube. Part 2 • M to Z. Edited by Peter Aichinger-Rosenberger, Evelyn Benesch, Kurt Bleicher, Sibylle Grün, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Herbert Karner, Katharina Packpfeifer, Anna Piuk, Gabriele Russwurm-Biró, Otmar Rychlik, Agnes Szendey , Franz Peter Wanek. Contributions by Christian Benedik, Christa Farka, Ulrike Knall-Brskovsky, Johann Kräftner , Markus Kristan, Johannes-Wolfgang Neugebauer , Marianne Pollak, Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka, Ronald Woldron. Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , pp. 2531-2534.

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