Wöllersdorf (municipality of Brand-Laaben)

Wöllersdorf is a place and a cadastral municipality in the municipality of Brand-Laaben in Lower Austria .

The place lies at the foot of the Schöpfl and consists of a small village and all around numerous scattered houses and farms. In the past, timber and livestock farming were particularly popular. Today Wöllersdorf can be easily reached via the L116 state road leading to the top of the gorge .

Ötscherhof Castle

The Ötscherhof (also Etscherhof or Etschhof ) southeast of the village was also originally a farm, but it was acquired by a French nobleman, Prince Amadeus Victor Croy von Stollberg , who owned a glassworks in Klamm. Around 1820 he had the one-story castle built on the site of the farm. After changing hands several times, the castle burned down in 1861 and the Meierhof belonging to the castle burned down in 1889. The castle was never rebuilt.

It had utility rooms and servants' rooms on the ground floor; on the first floor it consisted of a hall, six rooms and four cabinets. There were also stables, coach houses and a gardener's house as well as a castle park with many rare plants.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Xaver Schweickhardt: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens, through a comprehensive description of all castles, palaces, lordships, cities, markets, villages, Rotten etc. etc., topographically, statistically, genealogically and historically edited and according to the existing four district Quarters in alphabetical order , Quarters Ober-Wienerwald, Volume 3, Vienna 1836
2. ^ Ötscherhof Castle , 1837