The best running trails around Haunoldstein

Sitzenthal Castle is a 16th-century castle building that was rebuilt and modernized by Count Ledochowska in the 19th century. On the upper floor, the castle has a colonnaded hall and rooms with ridge vaults, historical furniture and valuable paintings. Currently privately owned and therefore not accessible. Since then, the castle has been a fief of Melk Abbey and belonged to Count Ludwig Starhemberg, who was outlawed in 1619. In the 20th century, Sitzenthal came to the Barons Hammerstein-Equord. The poet and politician Hans Hammerstein-Equord (d. 1947), who was born here in the castle, was Austrian Federal Minister of Justice in 1936 and a prisoner in the Mauthausen concentration camp after 1938. More about the story: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Sitzenthal

Very nice single trail - easy to ride

When the weather is nice, the Gösnbar on the Pielach is open!

One of the typical small monuments that the Dunkelsteinerwald tour passes.

Very nice Sinle Trail in the forest and next to the river

Although right on the side street, but hardly any traffic. But a great view of the Pielach.

History of the castle Sitzenthal The name Sitzenthal refers to Count Sighard von Schalla, who was here in the 12th Century feudal man. The short and sweet Sizo was transferred to the start-up. Place and Castle Sitzenthal were first documented in 1287, when Otto von Scheuerberg sold his farm in Sitzenthal to Hartwig von Wasen. The ownership changed hands in the following centuries often. In 1843 the k. k. Chamberlain Anton Ledóchowski castle owner. His daughter Theresa was later beatified. Another daughter, Julia Ursula, was canonized. The castle was rebuilt in the 16th century and in 1835. The former residential tower may have fallen victim to the rebuilding of Count Ledóchowski. The walled moat was filled in 1899. From the once very large hook-shaped farmyard from the first half of the 17th century, only the one-storey mountain-side wing is preserved. He was extended by later additions to a four-sided system. Several interiors of the castle are provided with ridge vaults. On the first floor there is a six-bay, cross-vaulted hall whose arches rest on pillars. It was built around the turn of the 16th to the 17th century. The St. The chapel was consecrated in 1869 and decorated in the style of the time. Schloss Sitzenthal was known for its high-quality interior design. It is surrounded by a large English park that reaches to the Pielach. About the Counts Falkenhayn the estate then passed to the baron Helge Hammerstein-Equord. His son Hans von Hammerstein-Equord, known in the interwar period, was born in the castle. After the early death of his father, the mother sold Schloss Sitzenthal in 1897 to the family of the Counts Braida. This family still owns the estate today. Since the castle is privately owned, it can not be visited in public. The state of preservation of the castle and the farm buildings, however, is much in need of improvement. In the castle, however, more and more events are held by the children's friends of the local group Loosdorf today.