!!!Seebenstein

Seebenstein, Lower Austria, municipality in the district of 
Neunkirchen, alt. 348 m, pop. 1,139, area 9.09 km%%sup 2/%, 
small summer tourist resort (10,281 overnight stays in 1992) in the 
Pitten Valley. - Camp of an infantry unit of the Austrian Federal 
Armed Forces, recreation centre and venue for seminars, Herminenstift 
convent (Schulschwestern), nature park (since 1987) and 
Seebenstein-Tuerkensturz recreation area; paper mill (partly belonging 
to the municipality of Pitten), trade and industry. - Late-Gothic 
parish church with wood carvings (around 1500), most important castle 
(documented mention in 1170) in the Pitten Valley, four gates, two of 
which with drawbridges extending to the gatehouse, castle keep 
(12%%sup th/%  /13%%sup th/%  centuries), partly converted into a 
palace and altered in Renaissance style, the palace was extended into 
two parts around 1604, the higher-lying pentagonal part with four 
storeys, Gothic winged altar (16%%sup th/%  century) in the chapel, 
1790-1823 seat of the Romantic association "Wildenstein 
Knighthood on blue Earth" ("Wildensteiner Ritterschaft auf 
blauer Erde"), fountain decorated with wrought iron (1600) in the 
courtyard; the art collection contains a statue of the Virgin Mary by 
T. Riemenschneider, paintings, weapons and furniture; New Palace 
(1733) with English park; late-Gothic parish church (1525, restored 
1849-1853) with late-Gothic entrance portal, wood carvings and grave 
monuments decorated with figures (15%%sup th/%  -17%%sup th/%  
centuries).

!Literature
F. Takacs, Burg und Herrschaft Seebenstein, doctoral 
thesis, Vienna 1954.


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