Wetzdorf Castle

Wetzdorf Castle
	Castle chapel
Conservation status:	renovated
Place:	Kleinwetzdorf, Austria
Geographical location	48 ° 29 '54.9 " N , 15 ° 57' 2.6" E Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '54.9 " N , 15 ° 57' 2.6" E
Height:	223 m above sea level A.

Wetzdorf Castle is located in Kleinwetzdorf in Lower Austria . The Heldenberg memorial belongs to the property .

history

An Eberhard von Wecelendorf appears as a witness in 1190. At the beginning of the 14th century, the place was probably owned by the sovereign, which means that a fortified courtyard can be assumed that was converted into a permanent house . Since then there have also been historical documents about the owners. After frequent changes of ownership, the fiefdom came to the barons of Prösing in 1630 and Wolf Sigmund Freiherr zu Prösing was able to convert the rule into free property.

Duchess Magdalena Sophie Eleonora of Schleswig-Holstein (1664–1720) acquired the castle and her legacy in 1714, Duke Leopold of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg (1674–1744), had it generously renovated in Baroque style between 1726 and 1728 . His son-in-law, Prince Karl Thomas zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1714–1789), drove the expansion. After another change of ownership, Joseph Gottfried Pargfrieder acquired the property in 1832 and had it renovated in a classical style between 1833 and 1841 and the park expanded as a landscape garden.

In 1870 the Franz-Josefs-Bahn (Vienna - Budweis) was built here, the route separated the palace complex from the landscape park.

Today the castle belongs to the private foundation of the Turnauer family. In 2005 the Lower Austrian provincial exhibition "In the sign of the district - 7000 years of rural culture in Lower Austria" took place here.

investment

Castle and chapel

The palace is built around three inner courtyards, the third courtyard is only half-L-shaped. It is surrounded by a few outbuildings (meierhof, orangery). There is a lion gate facing the street.

The castle chapel, in the northern corner of the first courtyard, with its baroque onion dome ( listed ) is particularly significant as a monument .

Castle gardens

Column hall and victory column on Heldenberg

There are several gardens around the castle, which were laid out in the 18th and first half of the 19th century in a Baroque to Classicist manner, partly as an ornamental and partly as an English landscape garden. Despite later changes and the currently rather overgrown condition, they show traces of the original facilities. Some of the staffages and horticultural structures are completely dilapidated.

An extensive landscape garden stretches up the Heldenberg to the west of the castle. About 150 meters above the castle at the upper end of the garden area is the memorial , laid out by Pargfrieder in 1849 as a "patriotic mausoleum".

The whole complex is a very peculiar example of garden art, and is named as one of the most important garden architectural monuments in Austria in the Monument Protection Act ( No. 14 in the appendix to Section 1, Paragraph 12 DMSG )

literature

Georg Dehio (first), Bernd Euler-Rolle a . a. (Ed.): Lower Austria north of the Danube ( The art monuments of Austria ). Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , pp. 525ff.

Web links

Entry via Wetzdorf (Kleinwetzdorf) on Burgen-Austria

Individual evidence

↑ Jahrmann: Lower Austria State Exhibition 2005 in Wetzdorf Castle. Press release APA, OTS0026, March 18, 2000.
↑ Renovation 2005 see for example: Old house renovation : Orangery von Schloß Wetzdorf, photos on the company website Simsek Bau GmbH, Großengersdorf; Example Orangery Schloß Wetzdorf, a-bau.at; both accessed November 22, 2015.

^ Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria: Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930 . tape 1 Lower Austria, Burgenland . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-205-99305-6 , Kleinwetzdorf, Castle Gardens and Castle Park and Kleinwetzdorf, Memorial , p. 312–316 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

↑ ^a ^b Géza Hajós; Matthias Cremer (Ill.): Historical gardens in Austria: forgotten total works of art. Austrian Society for Historical Gardens, Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 1993, ISBN 978-3-205-98095-7 , Kleinwetzdorf - Schloßpark and Heldenberg, p. 74 ff. With a plan of the enclosure 1868 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

↑ Hajós 1993, p. 74

[1] Jahrmann: Lower Austria State Exhibition 2005 in Wetzdorf Castle. Press release APA, OTS0026, March 18, 2000.

[2] Renovation 2005 see for example: Old house renovation : Orangery von Schloß Wetzdorf, photos on the company website Simsek Bau GmbH, Großengersdorf; Example Orangery Schloß Wetzdorf, a-bau.at; both accessed November 22, 2015.

[Berger_2002-3] Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria: Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930 . tape 1 Lower Austria, Burgenland . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-205-99305-6 , Kleinwetzdorf, Castle Gardens and Castle Park and Kleinwetzdorf, Memorial , p. 312–316 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[Hajós_1993-4] Géza Hajós; Matthias Cremer (Ill.): Historical gardens in Austria: forgotten total works of art. Austrian Society for Historical Gardens, Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 1993, ISBN 978-3-205-98095-7 , Kleinwetzdorf - Schloßpark and Heldenberg, p. 74 ff. With a plan of the enclosure 1868 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[5] Hajós 1993, p. 74