Weyerburg

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Weyerburg ( village )
locality
cadastral community Weyerburg
Weyerburg (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Hollabrunn  (HL), Lower Austria
Judicial district Hollabrunn
Pole. local community Hollabrunn
Coordinates 48 ° 34 '18 "  N , 16 ° 11' 7"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '18 "  N , 16 ° 11' 7"  Ef1
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Residents of the village 111 (January 1, 2020)
Building status 67 (2001)
Area  d. KG 12.53 km²
Post Code 2031f1
Statistical identification
Locality code 03757
Cadastral parish number 09066
Counting district / district Weyerburg (31022 083)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS
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The Folly Cross south of the village, view of the castle
Weyerburg Castle

Weyerburg is a place in the homonymous cadastral community of Hollabrunn in the Hollabrunn district in Lower Austria .

geography

Weyerburg is located in northern Lower Austria at an altitude of approx. 266 meters east of Hollabrunn and on the northern edge of the Glaswein forest. The name of the village can be traced back to the manorial seat of the same name (castle).

Weyerburg has 144 inhabitants. (2001, source: Statistics Austria)

history

First mentioned in a document in 1204, Weyerburg was raised to market in the middle of the 14th century. The village was originally south of the recent town, but this earlier settlement was deserted in the 15th century.

The palace in Weyerburg, formerly a castle, was in changing ownership, since 1714 it has belonged to the Schönborn family , after the then Imperial Vice Chancellor, Count Friedrich Karl von Schönborn- Puchheim, who later became the prince-bishop, the Weyerburg rulership and other associated villages from the count Johann Dominik von Hochburg had bought to complement the Göllersdorf estate he had acquired in 1710 , where he had Schönborn Palace built in 1712-17 .

Attractions

  • The branch church, consecrated to St. Kunigunde , slightly elevated on the northern edge of the village, is a baroque-style hall building that is essentially medieval. The equipment includes u. a. a baroque high altar presumably by Lukas von Hildebrandt and a late Gothic figure of a saint from the 15th century.
  • Located on a hill on the southern outskirts, visible from afar, is the castle, a fortified four-wing complex built in the 16th century, from the Middle Ages.
  • The pillory column in the center of the village probably dates from the 16th century.
  • In front of the castle is a baroque figure of St. John of Nepomuk from around 1730.
  • A plague chapel from 1633 is located southwest of the village.
  • The Folly Cross from the 15th / 16th centuries Century southeast of the community it is an eight-sided pillar on a base, which has four defensive heads below the profiled square top.

Personalities

  • Mathias Thier (1742–1806), important violin maker

literature

  • Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (=  Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 1284-1286 .

Web links

Commons : Weyerburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See story at Burgen-Austria.com