Fir mill
The Tannenmühle is a castle in the Lower Austrian municipality of Altlengbach .
Location and ownership
The mill
The Tannenmühle was probably founded by Philipp Tanner , who also bequeathed fiefdoms on the Leiten near Strass in 1455 , as the old cadastral name is also known as "Thunder Mill". From 1591 the building was owned by the Neulengbach rulers , and later the miller Johann Asinger was also named.
Manor house and castle
In 1862 the mill was bought by Count Viktor Lützow , who had a manor house built next to the mill and expanded the estate by repeatedly acquiring surrounding land. Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy bought the estate and the land in 1871, had the mill closed, the manor house was extensively rebuilt and the park expanded.
He had the castle and the surrounding garden designed comparable to British country estates, possibly as a memory of his wife Sarah, who came from England, who died early.
In 1872 the Englishman Robert Bulwer-Lytton lived in the complex, who had published poems under a pseudonym and was in the service of the English crown as a diplomat and later as Viceroy of India. His father Edward had published the novel " The Last Days of Pompeii ". After Prince Esterhazy's death in 1894, the palace was sold by his son Anton to the widowed Princess Theresia Sulkowski , who a few years later sold it to Baroness Paula Scharschmid . From 1907 the French Count Resseguier de Miremont and from 1920 Franz Count Clam Gallas owned the facility.
In the last days of World War II, the building was looted and then used as a maternity hospital. This use was only temporary, after which the facility was restored by the Plaß family. Thereafter, Count Adolf Trauttmansdorff was the owner of the country estate, which is now owned and used by the von Blaas family.
architecture
Tannenmühle Castle is a two-storey complex, which is constructed in a horseshoe shape with parallel side wings of different lengths. The building fronts are almost completely covered with plants. The two parallel main wings end with a gable wall on the main facade and are connected by a transverse wing with a low roof ridge. In this connecting wing there are entrances to the courtyard and the garden. The southern main wing ends on the courtyard side with a half-hipped roof . The porch attached to it has the same roof, which in turn has a brick porch with arbor on the upper floor. The driveway leads to the iron gate of the vestibule.
In 1909 a large neo-Gothic chapel with a bell tower was added to the courtyard side of the second main wing, which is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of Mary and is located on the upper floor. It can be reached via a stone flight of steps. Uphill to the chapel building, one reaches both the entrance to the farm yard and a gate, which was designed in the Romanesque style. Inside the castle, the large hall is particularly striking.
The park that surrounds the castle looks neat.
source
- Entry via Tannenmühle to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 13.1 ″ N , 15 ° 54 ′ 51.7 ″ E