Wolfpassing Castle

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Wolfpassing Castle

The Wolfpassing Castle is a castle in Wolfpassing in District Scheibbs in Lower Austria .

history

The predecessor of Wolfpassing Castle came to Sigmund Graf von Abensperg and Traun in 1635 . By inheritance it came to the Barons von Geymann , who converted the castle, which had already been modernized in the 16th century, into a palace and owned it until 1723. Then Leopold Karl Graf Zinzendorf bought it , his sons sold it in 1747 to Ernst Ferdinand Graf Auersperg, who was related to them . Shortly afterwards the building got its present form. The marriage of an Auersperg daughter to the French general Karl Freiherr von Jaquinot turned out to be fortunate, as the building and its owners did not suffer any damage during the French Wars . When Emperor Franz I bought some Auersperg castles for the kk patrimonial fund in 1834, Wolfpassing was among them. In 1910, the heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, gave the estate to the Ministry of Defense in exchange for the Blühnbach estate , but had the majority of the well-kept furniture brought to his Bohemian Konopischt castle .

From 1928 to 1930 there was an adaptation to accommodate the newly founded dairy school. In the course of the privatization of the Federal Institute for Dairy Industry and the establishment of the Wolfpassing Food Technology Center (LMTZ) in 2002, the LMTZ Wolfpassing was closed in 2004 . From mid-2009 to mid-2013, the Wolfpassing Learning World , a Catholic educational institution, was housed in the castle .

investment

The castle is located on the eastern outskirts of the village and is a baroque four-storey four-wing complex with an arcade courtyard , corner towers and a hipped roof .

Driver's bell

On the occasion of the sale of the castle by the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft (BIG) to a Linz entrepreneur, a bell with a swastika and the following dedication text was discovered in the bell tower in 2013:

“ On March 11, 1938, the unifier and leader of all Germans, Adolf Hitler, freed the Ostmark from the yoke of foreign oppression and led it home to the Greater German Reich. "

This bell was cast in 1939 from the metal of a bell donated in 1935 for the murdered dictator Engelbert Dollfuss . According to the Federal Monuments Office, the bell is subject to monument protection as an accessory, but a warning plaque can be attached. A complaint was brought against the BIG "on suspicion of spreading National Socialist ideas".

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria. Topographical inventory of monuments. Lower Austria south of the Danube, part 2, M to Z. Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003. ISBN 3-85028-365-8 . Pages 2722.
  2. ↑ Privatization and foundation of the Wolfpassing Food Technology Center (LMTZ) ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), josephinum.at , accessed on September 17, 2012.
  3. ↑ No happy end before school starts: Private reform school cannot find replacement accommodation ( memento from March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), kurier.at , accessed on March 13, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b Lower Austrian “Führer Bell” is a case for lawyers , derstandard.at , June 28, 2013, accessed on July 9, 2013.
  5. ↑ “Führer Bell” in the castle must remain , orf.at , July 3, 2013.

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 38.4 "  N , 15 ° 3 ′ 52.6"  E