Vogelsangmühle (Eggenburg)
The Vogelsang mill is under monument protection standing baroque manor east of Eggenburg in Lower Austria .
history
The Vogelsangmühle, located on the Schmida outside the town of Eggenburg on the road to Stoitzendorf, was first mentioned in a document as Felbermühle in 1412. It was used to extract the red dye alizarin from madder root .
In 1709 the mill came into the possession of Provost Conrad von Albrechtsburg (according to Austrian art topography, Provost Johann Conrad Ferdinand Albrecht von Albrechtsburg ), from 1734 it belonged to the sculptor Franz Leopold Farmacher (1698–1760) and between 1799 and 1838 it was owned by the Vogelsang family .
Provost Conrad had a driveway built from the road leading from Eggenburg to Stoitzendorf to the mill, which he expanded as a summer residence, and a barrel-arched bridge built, which he decorated with statues of Saints Conrad and Augustin , made by the Eggenburg sculptor Jakob Seer.
A mill with three water wheels was also built. Two of these wheels driven per a milling operation of a flour mill , while the third one saw mill set in motion. The mill operation was stopped around 1930 due to expired water rights .
On the south side of the house, a garden, the so-called small garden or garden of paradise, was separated and consecrated to St. Mary. This garden was planted with rare table fruit trees and espalier fruit.
A glass house with an orangery was attached to this garden . This was sold by the administrator to the imperial count Questenberg in 1732 and rebuilt in Jarmeritz . In 1729 round windows with bars - ox eyes - were built into the garden wall .
Because of the debts of the provost, who died in 1730, the Vogelsangmühle was forcibly auctioned off in 1734. Under Leopold Vogelsang, a square garden house with pointed arched windows and a high shingle roof was built. This two-storey building, which is no longer preserved, was captured in a watercolor from 1903.
description
In 1911, Austrian art topography describes the Vogelsangmühle as a handsome homestead on the banks of the Kleine Schmida. A badly damaged statue of Johannes Nepomuk is mentioned by the bridge, while the garden with the garden wall on the south side is described as in decline.
Today, according to Dehio , the former summer residence features a main building covered with a mansard hipped roof with windows with profiled stone walls, grooved sills and straight roofs . The stables and farm buildings have saddle roofs and stone-clad windows as well as barrel and square vaults.
The Vogelsangmühle is also described as a sight of the town of Eggenburg in the Cosmographia Austriaco-Franciscana by Placidus Herzog.
literature
- Austrian art topography, published by the kk Central Commission for Art and Historical Monuments, Volume V, The Monuments of the Political District of Horn in Lower Austria, commissioned by Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna, 1911
- DEHIO Lower Austria - north of the Danube ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 (1990)
- Eva Berger: Historic gardens of Austria: Lower Austria, Burgenland . Böhlau, Vienna, 2002, ISBN 3-205-99305-5
- Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial heritage of Lower Austria. History-technology-architecture. Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77460-0
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial heritage of Lower Austria
- ^ Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial heritage of Lower Austria
- ^ Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria
- ^ Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 38 ′ 42.7 " N , 15 ° 49 ′ 51.1" E