Walterskirchen Castle
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| Alternative name (s): | Coburg Castle | |
| Creation time : | since 1683 | |
| Conservation status: | Received or received substantial parts | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 39 '19.1 " N , 16 ° 40' 24.7" E | |
| Height: | 184 m above sea level A. | |
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The Castle Walter churches , by its present owners and Castle Coburg called, is a Grade II listed four-winged building in Baroque style, in 1683 using a medieval erected wall core in the northwest part. In the late 18th and 19th centuries there were minor modifications . The castle is located in the middle of a park north of the town of Walterskirchen in Lower Austria . A property at this location was first mentioned in a document in 1249.
history
The lords of Walterskirchen who lived in the Weinviertel were followers of the noble free von Asparn . After their extinction, they became ministerials to the sovereigns. In 1217 the feudal sovereignty over the former Meierhof came to the cathedral chapter of Passau, soon afterwards it was a sovereign fiefdom that was given to Otto von Walterskirchen. From 1241 he had been the chamberlain of Duke Frederick II the Arguable and fought for him against the Archbishop of Salzburg. Among other things, the castle of Traismauer was destroyed by him. After Frederick's death, his brother Konrad took the side of King Ottokar II and managed Mödling Castle as burgrave for him in 1271/72 . In 1332, Walterskirchen was given to the brothers Heinrich and Leutold von Hagenberg as pledge. In 1377 the pledge was given to Ladislaus Hering, who received it as a fief twenty years later. In 1423 and 1455 the Dechsner are mentioned as fiefdoms. In the later 15th century troops of the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus destroyed the castle. Emperor Friedrich III. lent the partial ruin to Andreas Stockhorner in 1480. He was likely to have rebuilt it, but in 1501 ceded it to his cousin Andre, who was sitting on Staatz. In the 16th century, the von Lembach family, Oswald von Eitzing, Erasmus Spanovsky and from 1577 Eustach von Althan sat here. In 1655 Walterskirchen became free property. The Gera and Weißenwolf families followed. In 1645 the castle was burned down during the Thirty Years War . In 1666, Baron Ferdinand von Hohenfeld took over the rule. His son had today's castle built. In 1733 the Counts Koháry bought the estate. Franz Josef Kohary was raised to the rank of prince in 1815. After his death in 1826, Walterskirchen passed to his daughter Maria Antonia and her husband, Ferdinand Georg von Sachsen-Coburg . It is owned by the Saxe-Coburg-Koháry family to this day .
construction
The three-story main wing in the south and the two-story secondary wings have simple facades. The windows of the north and east wings partly have sills from the 17th century. The south facade with panel decoration was created around 1800. A shallow, three-axis central projection is crowned by a blind gable with a heraldic cartouche . The system is accessible from this side through a segment arch portal in a rectangular frame under a balcony on double consoles. The windows of the south wing have gable roofs. The courtyard facades in the west, east and north are two-story and have an arcade on pillars with bulging capitals from the end of the 17th century. Above is a loggia with a flat ceiling , which was probably built in the 19th century. The mighty, protruding staircase in the south wing also dates from the 19th century . On the ground floor there are Platzl and groin vaults ; on the upper floor flat ceilings with simple stucco mirrors and a ballroom in the east wing. In the northeast corner there is a staircase with a stab cap barrel - possibly a former tower from the 16th century.
Outbuildings
To the east of the castle are the farm buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries, which enclose a wide, almost square courtyard. The one- and two-story buildings have wide groin and stitch cap vaults with plastered ridges and square vaults over belt arches . Also to the east of the castle was a two-storey bulk box with a high gable roof until it was demolished in September 2015 . It had a saddle arch portal on the west side, which in the Keilstein bore the former designation "17 ..". Windows and doors had stone walls.
Bulk box
Interior shot of the bulk box
The saddle arch portal
cancellation
cancellation
stairway
1st floor
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , p. 1240.
Web links
- Entry about Schloss Walterskirchen on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Schloss Walterskirchen to Burgen-Austria