Wisent Castle
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| Creation time : | 1571 | |
| Conservation status: | Parts received | |
| Place: | Amelsdorf | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 35 '7.8 " N , 15 ° 47' 16.7" E | |
| Height: | 402 m above sea level A. | |
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Wisent Castle (also Wiesent Castle ) is a listed building ( list entry ) in Amelsdorf , a place in the municipality of Burgschleinitz-Kühnring in Lower Austria .
History and description
Wisent is first mentioned in a document in 1353. In 1514 a desolate festival in Amelsdorf was sold, which is still mentioned in 1602. However, as Wisent Castle was built in 1571 under Valentin Polani (inscription above the main gate) and his wife Barbara, it is most likely two different structures.
In 1619 the castle was stormed and looted by Buquoy's troops . The Mörtersdorf and Sachsendorf estates and the town of Limberg later came under the Wisent rulership and with this in 1755 came into the possession of Altenburg Abbey .
Since a fire caused by lightning in 1900, Wisent Castle has had a rectangular, one-story main building because the second floor was demolished. The wings surrounding the castle courtyard have arcades on both the ground floor and the upper floor .
In 1944/45 around 30 Hungarian Jews had to do forced labor here . Its supervisor, Karl Reschinsky, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 1947 for mistreating the workers.
Today, Wisent Castle is used by Altenburg Abbey as a meierhof .
literature
- Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (= Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 44 .
- Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces (2 vols.) . Hartleben Verlag, Vienna – Leipzig 1925 II, p. 64.
- 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. 83 f.
- Georg Clam-Martinic : Österreichisches Burgenlexikon , Linz 1992, ISBN 9783902397508 , p. 210.
- Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3705605305 , p. 72 f.
- Hans Tietze : The monuments of the political district Horn . Austrian Art Topography V, Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1911, p. 98.
- Georg Matthäus Vischer : Topographia Archiducatus Austriae Inferioris Modernae 1672. Reprint Graz 1976 VOMB, No. 137.
- kk Central Commission for Art and Historical Monuments (Ed.): Austrian Art Topography. Volume V. The monuments of the political district of Horn in Lower Austria. Commissioned by Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1911.
Web links
- Entry about Schloss Wiesent on Lower Austria Castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Wisent Castle on Burgen-Austria
- Wisent Castle in the Austria Forum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Online at Austria Forum