Schloss Zogelsdorf, 16th-century castle in Burgschleinitz-Kühnring, Austria.
Schloss Zogelsdorf is a 16th-century castle located in Burgschleinitz-Kühnring on the village's main road. The building displays a white-rendered facade with a central balcony supported by Tuscan columns and red-white-red shutters on its upper floors.
From 1522 the former estate belonged to noble families; in 1628 it passed to Harmannsdorf and was rebuilt in 1670. In 1839 it belonged to the Suttner family, and Baron Karl Gundakar Ritter von Suttner hosted the imperial court there in 1848, followed by members of the Imperial War Ministry. Since then it has been owned by the Perko-Greiffenbühl family.
Since 2009 several rooms have housed an order museum run by the IOU society for phaleristics, heraldry and family research, showing decorations, medals and insignia. The building is still owned by the Perko-Greiffenbühl family and stands on the village's through road.
Schloss Zogelsdorf stands directly on the through road of the village, so it is reached on foot from the street. The order museum set up in 2009 occupies several rooms on the ground floor, where 16th-century barrel vaults survive. Allow time to view the medals and insignia; the arcaded courtyard is entered from the south and east sides.
From the former garden layout, a fence of square pillars topped with pyramid roofs survives in front of the south facade. In 1967 a nature garden was laid out partly reusing older structural elements. The two-storey courtyard arcades, with cross-vaults on Tuscan columns below and stone balustrades above, date from the 17th century.
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