Neuwartenburg Castle

Neu-Wartenburg Castle

Neu-Wartenburg Castle in a property near Timelkam and Vöcklabruck in Upper Austria.

history

The Pollheimer rule of Wartenburg is documented as early as 1319. Their original seat of power was Wartenburg Castle on the southern foothills of the Hausruck over the Vöckla , and from 1639 the Alt-Wartenburg Castle north of it , both of which are now in ruins.

Neu-Wartenburg Castle is located on the right Vöcklaufer, below the castle. The castle was built between 1730 and 1732 by the Viennese architect Anton Erhard Martinelli on behalf of Johann Albert Count Saint-Julien-Wallsee (1673–1766) . Count Wallsee had bought the estate in 1729 from the Nutz von Goisernburg who had lived there since 1640. He had Emperor Charles VI. I was invited to a falcon hunt for 3 days and wanted to offer him appropriate accommodation. As early as 1754 he had to sell the property again because of debts. Via the Ghelen family it came to the nobles von Grechtler in 1766, to Thaddäus von Reischach in 1785 and to Ludwig Ratzesberg in 1847, until Count Albert von Saint-Julien was able to bring it back into family ownership in 1869. The last heir to the Saint-Julien family adopted Elisabeth Countess von Strachwitz; Since 1973 the castle has belonged to the von Strachwitz family .

investment

Neu-Wartenburg Castle, general view

The palace comprises the main house and a courtyard bordered by two side wings and a portal with pavilions to the east. The house has a raised central part. The dome was destroyed in a fire in 1940 and only rebuilt in 1968.

The park in the bend of the Vöckla still contains the basic features of the 1730s and is a landscape garden from the 19th century in the outdoor areas . It is one of the more important garden architectural monuments in Austria and is mentioned in the Monument Protection Act ( No. 27 in the appendix to Section 1, Paragraph 12 of the DMSG ).

A few scattered houses belong to the property, the estate at the other end of the avenue now belongs to the municipality of Vöcklabruck. The houses together form an independent locality, each a village in both communities.

The palace and park are privately owned by the Strachwitz family and are not open to the public.

Web links

Commons : Neu-Wartenburg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Description on the castle owner's website
Entry via Neu-Wartenburg to Burgen-Austria

Individual evidence

^ Kulturforum: Schloss Neuwartenburg ;
Castle lore: Neuwartenburg .
^ Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria: Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930 . tape 2 Upper Austria, Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Carinthia, Styria, Tyrol . Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-205-99352-0 , Neuwartenburg, Schlosspark , p. 169 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

48.011624 13.623334 440Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 41.8 ″ N , 13 ° 37 ′ 24 ″ E

[1] Kulturforum: Schloss Neuwartenburg ;
Castle lore: Neuwartenburg .

[Berger_2003-2] Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria: Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930 . tape 2 Upper Austria, Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Carinthia, Styria, Tyrol . Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-205-99352-0 , Neuwartenburg, Schlosspark , p. 169 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).