Neuwaldegg Castle

Schloss Neuwaldegg is a baroque mansion in Vienna’s 17th district of Hernals with an English garden setting.Alexander Schütz, a financial investor, owns it privately.

The Neuwaldeggerhof was recognized as a country house as early as 1535; it was destroyed during the second Turkish assault in 1683.The palace was most likely erected between 1692 and 1697 according to plans by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach for Count Theodor von Strattmann (1693), and was hence known as the Strattmann Garden Palace at the time.The terraced baroque garden includes a dwarf gallery (workshop Matthias Bernhard Braun, about 1719, originally in the castle garden at Ctoliby ).

Franz Moritz Graf Lacy, field marshal of regent Maria Theresa and counselor to Emperor Joseph II, purchased it at auction in 1765.As a result, he laid out a spacious garden that stretched far into the hunting grounds of the Dornbach Valley and the hills of the Vienna Woods on what is now the city limits of Vienna, and was at the time one of the largest and most beautiful parks in Austria.The tiered baroque garden was simplified.The landscape garden is regarded as Austria’s first English plant.The avenue (Schwarzenbergallee) and wide meadows, such as the Marswiese, are particularly appealing, named after Johann Martin Fischer’s 1774 sculpture of Resting Mars. The Moritzruhe is a classical temple from 1801, serving as Count Lacy’s tomb.The Hameau (Dutch village) was a community of guest houses.

The palace and grounds were purchased by the Schwarzenberg family in 1801.Around 1890, Princess Therese gave the royal garden its current neo-baroque aspect.

The palace was given to the Archdiocese of Vienna in 1951.The inside of the castle was converted into an educational institution from 1978 to 1986.The Vienna Municipality purchased Schwarzenberg Park as a municipal leisure area in 1985.In 2002, the private foundation Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe took acquired the castle, allowing it and its baroque garden to be utilized for various events. From 2010 until 2016, the castle housed the Franz Schubert Conservatory.Alexander Schütz, a financial investor, now owns Neuwaldegg Castle privately.

The garden is one of Austria’s most important garden-architectural monuments and is protected by law (No. 49 in the appendix to 1 Para. 12 DMSG, and the baroque garden in the list of monuments for the entire complex, as well as part of the Neuwaldegger Schlosspark (Neuwaldegger Allee and others) ).The park and castle are part of the Hernals-Vienna Forest protection area ( LSG 6, Part A, total area 6 km2).