Top 6 Castles around Großhofen

Around 1120, Adalbert von Sachsengang was documented as the first representative of the family named after the castle. When Emperor Ferdinand III put Sachsengang up for sale in 1655, it was already in very poor condition. Johann Konrad von Richthausen became the new lord of the castle. He primarily engaged in alchemical experiments in Sachsengang. As early as 1659, he sold the castle to Dr. Jakob von Thavonat, a South Tyrolean, who had it expanded into a palace. His descendants still live in and manage the castle today.

The Sachsengang fortress, probably one of the oldest and perhaps the oldest, fortification around Vienna, was one of the most important in the medieval chain of castles that stretched from Eßling to Stopfenreuth. In 1659, the South Tyrolean Baron Dr. Jakob von Thavonat bought the Sachsengang castle and converted it into a palace. His descendants still live in and manage the castle today. More on the history: http://www.burgenkunde.at/niederoesterreich/sachsengang/sachsengang.htm

According to documents, the castle was taken over by Dietrich von Pillichsdorf in 1320 as a permanent house together with the Prun(n) estate. After wars with the Turks, the fortress house fell into desolation around 1529. In the last quarter of the 16th century, the town was repopulated by Urban Sueß (Siess) and a castle was built, whereby the place name Sueßen Brunn (Siessenprunn) was newly composed of the family name and the old domain name. Around 1600 the castle was owned by the Barons of Landau, from 1622 by the Losensteins, from 1660 by the Auersperg, from 1667 by the Grundmanns, from 1802 by the Barons of Walterskirchen, from 1813 by Count Kokorzowa, from 1816 owned by Baron von Bartenstein, in the 19th century owned by the Dubsky von Trebomyslice, around 1900 owned by the Bösch family and since 1926 owned by the Theresian Academy. In 2008 the castle was acquired by the Ludwig Reiter shoe manufacturer, which renovated the building and moved there in March 2011.

According to a document from 1287, the area was a fiefdom of the Lords of Eslarn. The property went to Baron von Teufel in 1579. In an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1672, the castle is shown as a new building. The property passed to the Kinsky family in 1722, after which it was renovated and expanded. Then in 1760 the castle belonged to Franz Stephan of Lorraine and went to the Habsburg family fund in 1797. The castle was badly damaged during the Battle of Aspern in 1809 and was then restored. The castle was adapted and restored between 1988 and 1991.

Hirschstetten Castle was destroyed in a bomb attack on March 12, 1945. The entrance portal, the castle chapel and a few outbuildings were spared.

On the northern bank of the Danube, Sachsengang is the oldest inhabited fortification.

You can see from the monastery that it was once a castle. Unfortunately you couldn't get in.

Obersiebenbrunn Palace is a baroque palace with gardens, which was acquired by the Coptic Church in 2001. Since then, the Coptic Monastery of St. Anthony and the Coptic Museum have been located there. This provides information about the Egyptian-Christian religious community.