Zeillern Castle

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Zeillern Castle

The castle Zeillern is Zeillern ( Lower Austria ). The castle is now home to the association office of the Lower Austrian Brass Music Association and serves as a seminar hotel primarily for music seminars, such as those of the Brass Music Association, the Lower Austrian Music School Management or the Lower Austrian Jazz Academy.

history

Zeillern Castle (1679)

The area was 863 by King Louis the German to the monastery Niederaltaich given. In 1052 a Chuno of cidelars is mentioned, who owned a moated castle on the site of today's castle. From 1239 to 1329 the castle was owned by the Abensperg and Traun family , the oldest documented secular owner of Zeillern is Hartnit von Traun (1239–1280). After the death of Otto the Younger von Traun in 1329, the rule was sold to Jans von Capell . In 1361 Ulrich von Kremsdorf is mentioned as Lord von Zeillern. In 1380 Duke Albrecht III enfeoffed Bernhard von Seisenegg . In 1532 it was acquired by Johann Baptist von Lappitz and sold to Albrecht von Enenkel in 1577 . In 1582 Philipp Jakob von Grünthal acquired the palace and had it expanded by two wings. In 1605, Wolf Friedrich Freiherr von Tattenbach bought the castle and rule of Zeillern, had the building rebuilt in the Renaissance style, giving it the appearance that can be seen on the engraving by Matthäus Merian from 1649. The complex at that time was surrounded by a moat, the castle was accessible via a single drawbridge, the walls were reinforced by round corner towers. At the time of the Turkish invasions, the complex was one of the refuges for civilians. In 1664, Zeillern was acquired by Count Conrad Balthasar Starhemberg , but the Starhembergers left the castle increasingly dilapidated.

Later the castle passed into bourgeois hands, which usually changed relatively quickly. The last private estate and castle owner was Franz Kirchweger, who sold most of the land belonging to the castle to farmers in the area. In 1898, half of the building was acquired by the Association of Genossenschaftskrankenkassen Vienna and the General Workers' Sickness and Support Fund Vienna and used as a rest and convalescent home until 1976. During the two world wars, the castle was used as a hospital , and from 1945 to 1955 it was used by the Russian occupying forces. In order to be able to use it again as a rest home afterwards, a general renovation was necessary. In 1970 the building no longer met the increased demands and was therefore sold to the Viennese Franz Eichinger, who in 1976 sold it to the market town of Zeillern for three times the purchase price.

From 1984 it was completely renovated at the instigation of the President of the Austrian Brass Music Association Josef Leeb with the support of the State of Lower Austria and the federal government. Since 1988 the castle has been used as a training center for the Lower Austrian Brass Band Association. The castle was leased in 2006 and has been run as the Schloss Hotel Zeillern ever since .

The outer

The two-storey building has the shape of a typical Mostviertel castle ( square ), similar to Scheibbs Castle or Ernegg Castle near Steinakirchen am Forst . The north-west corner was demolished in the 19th and 20th centuries and is therefore open so that one has a view of the courtyard and the arcade in the east wing from the outside. The arcades on the upper floor were walled up in the second half of the 19th century. The four wings are provided with steep hipped roofs . Two of the original four trenches of the former moated castle are still preserved, the slots for the rollers of the drawbridge once in front of it are visible at the gate. The square park adjoining on the west side is surrounded by a moat up to 16 meters wide and therefore forms an island.

The inner

In the large ballroom on the first floor of the south wing there is a stucco ceiling from the 17th century. The ballroom as well as the rooms on the ground floor have barrel vaults , the room layout was changed significantly during the conversion to the seminar center. Carved doors and marbled stone robe portals have been preserved from the Renaissance period. The hunting room on the first floor of the north wing has a stucco ceiling from around 1600 and depicts dogs, foxes and hares as well as a lion between ornaments.

Web links

Commons : Zeillern Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian Brass Music Association - Association offices ( Memento from August 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved August 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c Defense structures in Austria - Zeillern Castle . Retrieved August 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Entry about Zeillern Castle in Burgen-Austria
  4. ^ The Chronicle of the Lower Austrian Brass Music Association from 1952 to the present day . Retrieved August 14, 2015.
  5. ↑ Chronology of Zeillern Castle . Retrieved August 14, 2015.
  6. ↑ a b Entry on Zeillern Castle in the Austria Forum

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 42.6 ″  N , 14 ° 48 ′ 32.5 ″  E