Top 5 Castles around Hausbrunn

The artist Hermann Nitsch (1938-2022) was one of the Viennese Actionists. In 1998, the palace hosted his 6-Day Play, the artist's 100th performance and the only continuous performance of his life's work. In 2025, after his death, the last three days of the festival (second version) were performed again at Pentecost.

Hauskirchen Castle: This early Baroque castle, significantly altered over the centuries, originally formed a fortified complex together with the Hauskirchen parish church. Franz Anton Pilgram was involved in the planning of the elongated Baroque building of Prinzendorf Castle.

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The community bought the castle in 1960 and sold it in 1967. The castle is now owned by several families. Story: House churches were probably founded around 1100 by Hugo of Liechtenstein under the name "Hugeschirichen". It originally only consisted of a fortified building and a small church. In 1110 he also founded the associated parish. After 1142, Wichard von Stronsdorf from the Chadolde clan handed over the “Hugeschirchen” estate to Klosterneuburg Abbey. According to Dopsch, the name "Hugo" contained in the place name could be identical to Hugo I of Liechtenstein, who was wealthy in the area and appears in documents several times between 1120 and 1243. Around 1200, Gerbirgis von Eibesthal gave the monastery new ownership of house churches in the form of three and a half peasant fiefs. In 1312 Hermann von Eibesthal sold local property to the duke. In 1319 a “Frewe von Hauskirchen” appeared. In 1590, splinter ownership of various noble families can already be identified, including: Liechtenstein, Fünfkirchen and Joseph Gröbl. Hans Nußkircher named himself after the place in 1590. In 1599 the property passed to Hans Reinhard Ehrenreiter, who probably built the castle around 1602/03. The castle can probably only be seen as an indirect successor to the older seat. In 1838 Hauskirchen belonged to the Knights of Gyra, and in 1846 it belonged to Liechtenstein again.

In the early Middle Ages there was an extensive Great Moravian fortification just a few kilometers south of today's Břeclav. Their centuries-old remains probably gave the place the name “Pohansko”. It was precisely here that Field Marshal Johann I Joseph of Liechtenstein had the hunting lodge of the same name built between 1810 and 1812 according to plans by the architect and princely building director Josef Hardtmuth. In addition, the short-term new building replaced the former garden pavilion. The main part of the castle consists of a building with a rectangular floor plan, which is adjoined on both sides on the ground floor by arcade galleries with five arcades, which are closed by a square pavilion. To achieve a certain monumentality of the building, a nearby pond was dug and the site of the forgotten fortification became the venue for popular autumn hunts. These could be observed by guests of higher society from the central loggia with the Ionic columns on the first floor. There was also the decoratively painted main hall, where hunting festivals were held. In contrast, a large part of the ground floor with the adjoining arcade gallery was open and accessible, and the hunter's apartment was also located here. Under Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein, part of the arcades was bricked up in order to enlarge the property manager's living space on the ground floor. After the construction of the so-called Iron Curtain, a border guard observation post was located on the roof of the castle and the building was inaccessible to the public. Today the building is used by the Břeclav City Museum and Gallery. The stone relief decoration from the workshop of the Viennese sculptor Josef Klieber also deserves attention. The circular reliefs beneath the first floor ledge contain motifs relating to mythological stories about the Roman virgin hunting goddess Diana and her family. The rectangular reliefs again show putti that tell a story about hunting.

Building shows Pohansko Castle

Beautiful route through the meadow and forest with several highlights: Pohansko Castle, a reconstructed bunker and a tree nature trail: https://breclav.eu/kultura-cestovni-ruch-naucne-stezky

At that time it was built parallel to the Temple of Diana and the Colonnade of the Travelers.