Plankenstein Castle

Plankenstein Castle is located in the town of Plankenstein, about 4 kilometers south-west of Texing in Lower Austria. The hilltop castle was first mentioned in a document in 1186 and was built by the Plankensteiners, vassals of the Counts of Peilstein. The family name is derived from the word blanc white) and means something like that of the white stone.

Story

In the 15th century, the Plankensteiners acquired important property. Pankraz von Plankenstein owned, among other things, Peilstein, Freienstein and Sassendorf, was a pawn of Weitra and the caretaker of Pöchlarn. He had the castle renewed in 1453, but did not live there. In the fraternal dispute between Emperor Friedrich III. and Duke Albrecht VI. Pankraz von Plankenstein stood by the emperor's side, which brought him further increases in power after the peace agreement.

After many years of changing ownership, the Tinti family acquired the castle in 1713. Bartholomäus von Tinti, who had acquired the Schallaburg in 1763, died at Plankenstein in 1799 at the age of 96.

decay

Since his family already lived in the Schallaburg, Plankenstein was abandoned and began to fall into disrepair. A chronicle from the year 1800 reports: Plankenstein, at the beginning of the century still a well-preserved castle, was gradually robbed of its furnishings and finally even of its windows and doors. Wind and weather played their games in the state rooms, the walls burst, the roofs sank in and within a few decades the palace was a ruin. Plankenstein could no longer be corrected, since the most necessary restoration would have caused disproportionately high costs. But at least so much was done that the church and school, pastor's and schoolteacher's apartments found their place in the castle ruins.

In 1939, the Tinti family sold their heavily indebted property, including Plankenstein and the Schallaburg, to the Nagel-Doornick family from Westphalia, which still owns palaces and castles in Germany today, including Vornholz Castle . After the Second World War, their possessions were expropriated as German property by the Russian occupying power. While the Schallaburg as a former USIA operation fell to the Republic of Austria in 1955 with the state treaty due to unclear ownership, which sold it on to the state of Lower Austria, Plankenstein Castle was restituted to the Nagel family.

church services

Services were held in the castle until 1952. These were later celebrated in the newly built Plankenstein parish church .

reconstruction

After the castle became increasingly dilapidated and partially collapsed, the Nagel family decided in 1975 to sell it to the architect Hans-Peter Trimbacher. With a well-trained team, Trimbacher managed to close the main roof and have it covered by October, thus protecting the fragile limestone walls from further collapses in good time before the onset of winter. Trimbacher invested at least 15 million schillings in the renovation and reconstruction. In 2008, the castle, which was open for tours and had 40 guest rooms in addition to various event rooms, was up for sale for €1.45 million.

hotel operation

In 2010, the Viennese entrepreneur Erich Podstatny bought Plankenstein Castle to fulfill a childhood dream. The guest rooms have been furnished with the most modern sanitary facilities and antique pieces from his private collection. Today you can spend the night in the individually designed guest rooms at low cost and feel like a knight in the idyllic courtyard, in the arcaded courtyard, in the former castle chapel or in one of the other event rooms. The castle also became a base for hikers on the north-south long-distance trail.

Movie

Old castles and their new masters in Lower Austria. Documentary film, Austria, 2018, 24 min., written and directed by: Barbara Baldauf, camera: Ossi Denkmayr, Helmut Muttenthaler, production: ORF , series: Erlebnis Österreich , first broadcast: May 6, 2018 on ORF 2 , table of contents by ORF, online- Video.

web links

Commons : Plankenstein Castle - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Planckenstein in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Website of Plankenstein Castle

Plankenstein Castle. In: Lower Austria castles online. Institute for Real History of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg

plank stone. In: burgen-austria.com. Martin Hammerl's private website

plank stone. In: Burgenkunde.at

360° photos of Plankenstein Castle

itemizations

Castle history. In: Plankenstein Castle , accessed October 18, 2021.

EPI - We move real estate. accessed October 18, 2021.

Knight's Room, Castle Room. In: Plankenstein Castle , accessed October 18, 2021.

Medieval Festival. In: Plankenstein Castle , accessed October 18, 2021.

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