Weinzierl Castle

Weinzierl Castle
Creation time :	1578-1586
Place:	Wieselburg - Land, Austria
Geographical location	48 ° 7 '37 "  N , 15 ° 7' 29"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '37 "  N , 15 ° 7' 29"  E
Height:	267  m above sea level A.

An entrance to the Francisco Josephinum (Weinzierl Castle)

The Weinzierl castle is located in Weinzierl, a district of the Lower Austrian municipality of Wieselburg-Land . It houses the Francisco Josephinum , a higher federal teaching and research institute for agriculture, agricultural engineering and food and biotechnology.

history

From an estate belonging to the Sankt Emmeram monastery in Regensburg, a first palace building developed between 1578 and 1586 under Johann Linsmayer Freiherr von Greiffenberg, which was converted by his descendants. In 1741, under Johann Carl Weber von Fürnberg, it was made baroque.

A prominent servant of the lords of the castle was the then unknown composer Joseph Haydn , who worked here around 1755 or 1759.

In 1796 Weinzierl Castle came into the possession of the imperial family, who temporarily used the castle as a summer residence. Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria-Tuscany , who had to move to Upper Austria after 1859 , had furniture that had once been in the possession of Maria Theresia of Austria brought from Weinzierl Castle to the Ortschloss . In 1883, Emperor Franz Joseph I gave it to the " Kaiser Franz Joseph Youth Asylum Association ", who set up a home here for those who were difficult to educate .

After the end of the monarchy , the palace became the property of the City of Vienna . In 1934 the Ministry of Agriculture took over the castle and moved the Francisco Josephinum, which had previously been located in Mödling , here. During the Nazi era , Weinzierl Castle was home to a “ Higher Agricultural State School ”. From 1944 to 1945 the castle served as a hospital . In the first post-war years, the resumption of school operations was hampered by the billeting of returnees.

In 1951, boarding schools and other school buildings were built in the castle park, followed by further renovations and extensions in 1959. In 2004 the Federal Monuments Office closed the castle, eight classes with around 730 students and the school administration were housed in containers . The groundbreaking ceremony for the new building took place in March 2006 and was completed in 2008.

Web links

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

• HBLFA FJ: Weinzierl Castle
• Entry about Schloss Weinzierl on NÖ-Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
• Entry via Weinzierl on Burgen-Austria
• About the renovation work

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://bfw.ac.at/rz/bfwcms.web?dok=5946  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ http://www.kulturleben.at/Schule/Schule/TraditionZukunft/Projekt6_06.xml  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ http://noe.orf.at/stories/96281/