Villa Wartholz

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Villa Wartholz
Villa Wartholz around 1900

Villa Wartholz around 1900

Creation time : 1870-1872
Conservation status: renovated
Place: Reichenau an der Rax, AustriaAustriaAustria 
Geographical location 47 ° 41 '54 "  N , 15 ° 49' 35"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '54 "  N , 15 ° 49' 35"  E
Height: 502  m above sea level A.
Villa Wartholz (Lower Austria)
Villa Wartholz

The Villa Wartholz or Schloss Wartholz is a former imperial villa in Reichenau an der Rax in Lower Austria. The name is derived from a nearby late Gothic light column from around 1500, which was named Wartkreuz . The Wartholz literature competition has been held in the villa every year since 2008 .

history

Wartholz was from Heinrich Missong (1844-after 1901), designed by Heinrich Ferstel in historicist style in the years 1870 to 1872 on behalf of Archduke Karl Ludwig , brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I. , built. The castle-like building with towers was planned less for representation than for recreational purposes.

Karl Ludwig spent a lot of time in this area, which was reserved for the hunts of the imperial court. The Karl-Ludwig-Haus of the ÖTK on the Rax nearby was named after him.

The villa was planned so that one had a view over the whole valley. However, a forest was laid out all around as a privacy screen, so that in the end there was hardly a wide view.

Since the area around Reichenau has become a popular excursion area for aristocratic society since the construction of the southern railway , members of the imperial family as well as members of the nobility, artists and scientists kept meeting in the Villa Wartholz. Other palaces were built nearby, such as Rothschild Castle .

Photo of the awarding of the Maria Theresa Order on August 17, 1917 in the Villa Wartholz
Photos from the award of the Maria Theresa Order on August 17, 1917 in the Villa Wartholz

The villa was also used by Emperor Karl I and Empress Zita ; Charles I was the private owner of the villa, which he inherited. His son Otto von Habsburg (1912–2011), who owned the villa from 1922 to 1973 after Karl's death, was born in Villa Wartholz. He also received baptism and first communion in the chapel that was in the villa.

On August 17, 1917, on the occasion of his first birthday in the midst of the World War , Charles I held a ceremony in the villa in which he presented the Maria Theresa Order to 24 officers (four commanders, 20 knights), among whom Archduke Joseph was August , Kövess , Dankl , Arz , Wurm and Banfield found. Also on August 17, 1918, the doctorates for the Maria-Theresia-Order took place on Wartholz, whereby Bardolff , Lehár , Wächter , Rozwadowski and Cavallar were awarded.

Since the property was the private property of a Habsburg, it was not affected by the Habsburg law passed in 1919 . In 1973 Otto Habsburg-Lothringen sold the property (without inventory) to the state of Lower Austria , but the latter soon sold it on. In 1982 the villa was bought by an architect who planned to set up a Kaiser Karl memorial here. However, this project turned out to be economically unrealizable for the operator. The property had to be sold again. It has been owned by the owners of the neighboring large garden and decor center since 2001. The building has been extensively restored in recent years.

literature

  • Fritz Trauner (music), Franz Allmeder (text): Wartholz, you ideal! Wiener Musikalienverlag, Brothers Mändl, Leipzig / Vienna 1917. (Dedicated in deep reverence to Her Imperial and Royal Majesty, the Empress and Queen Zita.)
  • Erika Oehring: On the pictorial effect of architecture in the landscape - using the example of two stately country houses from the second half of the 19th century in Reichenau an der Rax . Thesis. University of Salzburg, Salzburg 1992.
  • Peter Aichinger-Rosenberger (arr.): Lower Austria south of the Danube . Volume 2: M to Z . Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria, topographical inventory of monuments. Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , pp. 1827 ff.
  • Friederike Griessler: Villa Wartholz - Reichenau an der Rax . In: Edith Bilek-Czerny (Red.): Semmering - UNESCO World Heritage Site . Preservation of monuments in Lower Austria, Volume 29, ZDB -ID 1467329-0 . Office of the Lower Austrian State Government (Department of Culture and Science), St. Pölten 2003, p. 32 ff.

Web links

Commons : Villa Wartholz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Toplitsch: Habsburgs in Reichenau. Dedicated to the market town of Kurort Reichenau in the year of the Lower Austrian State Exhibition 2003 . Edition Terra Nova, Ternitz-Pottschach 2003, pp. 91 and 304.
  2. ↑ Herm. Cl. Kosel (Ed.): German-Austrian Artist and Writer Lexicon , Society for the Graphic Industry (Wiener Mode), Vienna 1902, Volume 1, p. 30 ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hathi.library.illinois.edu
  3. ↑ The Emperor's birthday. In the Villa Wartholz in Reichenau. In:  Neuigkeits -Welt-Blatt , No. 187/1917 (XLIV. Year), August 18, 1917, p. 4, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwb.
  4. ↑ The birthday of Sr. Majesty the Emperor. The celebration in Wartholz. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 188/1917, August 18, 1917, p. 13, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  5. ↑ The birthday party of Sr. Majesty the Emperor. In:  Wiener Zeitung , supplement Wiener Abendpost , No. 187/1918, August 17, 1918, p. 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  6. ↑ Arno Kerschbaumer, Nobilitations under the reign of Emperor Karl I / IV. Károly király (1916-1921) , Graz 2016 ( ISBN 978-3-9504153-1-5 ).
  7. ↑ Entry on Villa Wartholz in Reichenau an der Rax in the database Gedächtnis des Landes for the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich ), accessed on March 13, 2013.
  8. ↑ see [1] . For information on the current owner family, see Wiener Zeitung March 10, 2012, electronically available [2]

Remarks

  1. ↑ Among other things, in 1921, the district court of Wiener Neustadt was the place of jurisdiction for the assets of the former emperor Karl I, as he still had private property on Wartholz . - See: An Interesting Trial against the Ex-Emperor Karl. The early retirement of fund assets director Franz Krauss. In:  Neuigkeits -Welt-Blatt , No. 23/1921 (XLVIII. Volume), January 28, 1921, p. 4. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwb.