Wasserhof Castle (Gneixendorf)

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Wasserhof Palace, view from the southeast, after the renovation (photo 2017)

The Castle Wasserhof is a castle in Gneixendorf that today has become Krems in Lower Austria belongs.

history

Gneixendorf was first mentioned in 1170 as the location of the house and vineyard of Otto von Machland . In 1630 Count Adolf von Althan bought the property.

After several changes of ownership, the castle was acquired by the Linz pharmacist Johann van Beethoven in 1819 . His brother, the composer Ludwig van Beethoven , spent the autumn there with his nephew Karl van Beethoven from September 29, 1826 . He lived in the three-wing corner room on the first floor in the south-west corner of the castle. This is evident from a comment by the nephew in the conversation book of the deaf composer: “There is a sundial in front of your window.” The sundial, which dates from the late 18th century, is located between the 2nd and 3rd south window. Beethoven completed the string quartet in F major op. 135 there on October 30th and then composed the new finale for the string quartet in B major op. 130. At the beginning of December, he traveled back to Vienna, where he fell ill on the way and died three months later .

In 1836 Johann van Beethoven sold the property again. On July 21, 1847 it came into the possession of the von Kleyle family, later by inheritance to Ida Alesina von Schweitzer née. von Kleyle, a granddaughter of the civil servant Friedrich Kleyle (1799–1836) who was friends with Nikolaus Lenau . Together with her uncle Friedrich von Kleyle, in 1862 she collected memories of Beethoven's stay in Gneixendorf for the doctor and writer Franz Lorenz (1803–1883).

The palace has been owned by the Viennese architect Ernst Linsberger since 2007, who extensively renovated it from 2011 to 2015.

literature

  • Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes, Vienna / Leipzig 1925, II, p. 62.
  • Bertrand Michael Buchmann, Brigitte Faßbinder: Castles and palaces between Krems, Hartenstein and Jauerling. In: Castles and palaces in Lower Austria. No. 16 (Birch series), St. Pölten / Vienna 1990, p. 78 f.
  • Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber : Castles - Waldviertel, Wachau, Moravian Thayatal . 2nd edition, Verlag Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , p. 246 f.
  • Fritz Dworschak : Ludwig van Beethoven's stay at Gneixendorf . Krems 1927.
  • Franz Eppel : The Wachau . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1975, p. 86.
  • Theodor von Frimmel : Beethoven's last stay in the country. In: Theodor von Frimmel: Beethoven Studies , Part 2, Munich / Leipzig 1906, pp. 145–167 ( digitized version ).
  • Georg Clam-Martinic : Austrian Castle Lexicon. Linz 1992, ISBN 9783902397508 , p. 124.
  • Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3705605305 , p. 183.
  • Karl von Schweitzer: The Gneixendorf estate near Krems on the Danube in Lower Austria. 1848-1898. Vienna 1899 ( digitized ).
  • The Gneixendorfer Chronicle. Published by the Gneixendorf Beautification Association, 2nd edition, Gneixendorf 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beethoven's conversation books. Volume 10, p. 257 and Kurt Smolle: Ludwig van Beethoven's homes from 1792 until his death. Munich / Duisburg 1970, p. 87.
  2. ↑ Kurt Dorfmüller, Norbert Gertsch and Julia Ronge (eds.): Ludwig van Beethoven. Thematic-bibliographical catalog of works. Munich 2014, Volume 1, p. 887.
  3. ^ Arthur Adolf Schwäger Hohenbruck, Georg Wieninger: La petite culture en Autriche ... Contributions to the presentation of the economic conditions of small landed property in Austria. KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1900, p. 66f ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ See Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) And a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 2: Lachner - Zmeskall. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 555-561.
  5. ↑ Online at Austria Forum

Web links

Commons : Schloss Wasserhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 26 ′ 28.56 "  N , 15 ° 37 ′ 20.53"  E