Wieselburg Castle
Wieselburg Castle , also called Market Castle , is a castle in Wieselburg in Lower Austria .
history
In 1241 the area north of the Erlaufzwiesels came into the possession of the Diocese of Passau , and on the left bank of the Erlauf the Wieselburg settlement with an estate was built around a large square in the course of the 13th century as the administrative center of the Passau people. In the 15th century at the latest, the castle-like building and its rulership passed into secular hands. After frequent changes of ownership, Emperor Franz I acquired the castle in 1823 and had it redesigned in the Josephine slab style and the castle park built according to French models.
The city bought the castle in 1976 and now uses it for various functions. It houses the museum of prehistory and early history, a chapel, a few shops and several apartments. Today it forms the core of the city with the castle park.
Castle Park
The freely accessible park behind the palace has been redesigned and given a figurative design. Central are five sculptures with girlish features that depict the rivers Enns, Mur, Raab, Salzach and Traun. These are true-to-original reproductions of five of the ten sculptures in the Albrechtsbrunnen near the Albertina in downtown Vienna . The originals designed by Johann Meixner were in Wieselburg from 1951 to 1986 and were put back in Vienna after renovation work, which the replicas in Wieselburg are reminiscent of.
Web links
- Entry about Schloss Wieselburg in Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Schloss Wieselburg to Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ The market lock on wieselburg.gv.at
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '37.3 " N , 15 ° 7' 21.1" E