Weikersdorf Castle

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Weikersdorf Castle
Rear view from the castle park, rosarium (August 2009)

Rear view from the castle park, rosarium (August 2009)

Creation time : from 1579
Place: Baden, AustriaAustriaAustria 
Geographical location 48 ° 0 '28 "  N , 16 ° 13' 10"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '28 "  N , 16 ° 13' 10"  E
Height: 237  m above sea level A.
Weikersdorf Castle (Lower Austria)
Weikersdorf Castle
Castle with tower section, 2009

The Schloss Weikersdorf is a formerly surrounded by a moat, now occupied as a hotel renaissance castle in Baden in Lower Austria.

history

It is not known exactly when the moated castle on which the structure is based was built. Heinrich and Albero von Weikersdorf owned the rulership in 1268. In 1450 Hans Hager is the master of Weikersdorf am Anger .

Weikersdorf Castle after Georg Matthäus Vischer , 1672
Weikersdorf Castle before the tower fire on January 31, 1909 

The castle was also owned by Matthias Corvinus . After his death it fell to the emperor, who in turn assigned it to his forester Kallenberg . After the two Turkish sieges in 1529 and 1683, the castle changed hands several times, and from 1579 it was converted into a palace with an arcade courtyard in the Renaissance style.

During the second Turkish siege in 1683, all rulership records were destroyed, so in 1705 new land registers were created by Franz Quarient , which today represent an important historical source.

From 1692 the building was redesigned in Baroque style: the ceilings on the first floor were stuccoed , the gate tower was given a facade, the former keep was removed down to eaves level . In 1859/60 numerous alterations and renovations were carried out, including terracotta furnishings for the company owned by architect and pottery manufacturer Victor Brausewetter in Kottingbrunn- Wagram. The moats that were drained in the 18th century were also filled in, a loggia was added to the south side of the castle, and the portal zone of the gate tower was changed.

Affected by the Soviet Army in 1945 , the castle threatened to fall into disrepair after the occupation , so that it, including the park (approx. 30,000 m² in total), was acquired by the municipality of Baden on June 30, 1966 (for five million schillings ) and structurally secured in 1968-71 . The properties came from the city of Baden to the industrialist Wilhelm Papst on March 9, 1973 in Kaufswege. On his initiative (supported by his wife Lotte) the castle was renovated (architect: Herbert Ortner senior) and expanded into a castle hotel. Part of the general renovation was the relocation of the Mühlbach bed and the addition of a sports wing, tennis hall and bed wing in the east. On September 1, 1975, the hotel went into operation on 18 February 1976, it was created by the Federal Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry , Josef Staribacher , as well as national captain Andreas Maurer than Club Hotel opened. After the bankruptcy of the entrepreneur Papst in 1990, Austria-Hotel-AG took over the club hotel on January 1st, 1992 .

The Hotel Schloss Weikersdorf received national attention, in particular through the Euro 2008 , when the Italian national soccer team moved into quarters here.

With an extension opened in May 2018 (planning by HOPPE architects), the hotel now has a total of 200 guest rooms.

literature

  • Hans Meissner: The Doblhoffs and Baden-Weikersdorf. (From prince servant to industrial manager) . Neue Badener Blätter, Volume 4,4, ZDB -ID 2161928-1 . Society of Friends of Baden and Municipal Collections - Archive, Rollett Museum of the City of Baden, Baden 1993, OBV .
  • Viktor Wallner (compilation): From the commandant's office to the congress casino. 50 years of bathing in data and images. 1945-1995. Neue Badener Blätter, Volume 6.1, ZDB-ID 2161928-1. Society of Friends of Baden and Municipal Collections - Archive, Rollett Museum of the City of Baden, Baden near Vienna 1993, OBV .
  • Viktor Wallner: Houses, people and stories - a Baden anecdotal walk . Society of Friends of Baden, Baden 2002, OBV .
  • Peter Aichinger-Rosenberger (among others): Lower Austria south of the Danube. Band 1: A to L . Dehio-Handbuch , Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs, topographic monuments inventory. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Aichinger-Rosenberger: Lower Austria south of the Danube , p. 167.
  2. ^ The fire at Doblhoff Castle in Baden. In:  Wiener Bilder , No. 6/1909 (Volume XIV), February 10, 1909, pp. 7 and 8 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb;
    Fire in Baron Doblhoff's castle. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 10/1909 (XXX. Year), February 3, 1909, p. 5 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt.
  3. ↑ a b Wallner: Häuser , p. 125.
  4. ^ Wallner: Von der Kommandantur , p. 31.
  5. ^ Wallner: Von der Kommandantur , p. 39.
  6. ^ Wallner: Häuser , p. 122.
  7. ^ Wallner: Von der Kommandantur , p. 43.
  8. ^ Wallner: Von der Kommandantur , pp. 82 and 67.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In those days a walled-in church treasure was found with the help of minesweepers, which was probably hidden in 1683.
  2. ↑ The castle was owned by the Doblhoff family from 1741 to 1966, with Heinrich (III.) Von Doblhoff-Dier (1894–1983) being the last lord of the castle. - Meissner: The Doblhoffs , p. 35.
  3. ↑ The arcade courtyard was roofed over with glass in 1983. - Aichinger-Rosenberger: Lower Austria south of the Danube , p. 167.