Schloss Dornach, Heritage castle in Saxen, Austria

Schloss Dornach sits on high ground near the Danube, merging an original manor house from 1455 with later baroque additions. The structure displays an octagonal tower and a terrace with Florentine-style loggias that span between projecting sections of the facade.

A manor on the site was first documented in 1455. In 1890 Cornelius Reischl, maternal grandfather of Frida Uhl, sold it to Princess Maria Theresia von Thurn und Taxis, who had it rebuilt as a neo-baroque castle mixing medieval and Renaissance elements. Later owners included a branch of the Portuguese royal family, Baron Viktor von Offermann, Robert Koller and the Taubländer family; the Gschösser and Ebenbichler families bought it in 2003 and began major restoration.

Since 2010 the castle has hosted events run by the Grenzfluss association, including the Lower Austrian Artists' Days, a companion event to the Upper and Lower Austrian exhibition "Donau.Fluch&Segen", and the opening of the Grenzfluss World Jazz Festival under director Peter Madsen. Concerts and exhibitions are held there regularly.

The site remains privately owned and can be viewed from the outside, best observed from pathways along the Danube riverbank. Visiting during daylight hours when the light is clear allows you to see the architecture and river views most clearly.

Frida Uhl, Strindberg's second wife and granddaughter of Cornelius Reischl, raised her son Friedrich here; born in 1897 from her affair with Frank Wedekind, he later became a writer. The castle passed to a branch of the Portuguese royal family before 2003, when architect Gschösser and the Ebenbichler family began restoring it.