Burg Perchtoldsdorf

The fortress Perchtoldsdorf is a tower fortress in local state of affairs and is placed immediately inside the equal marketplace Perchtoldsdorf inside the district Modling in Lower Austria at the Vienna metropolis limits. The origins of the castle need to cross returned to the year a thousand. It become constructed along side numerous other castles on the east edge of the Vienna Woods to protect the territory of the Babenbergs from the invading Hungarians.

The fort originally consisted best of a masonry tower and a few wooden homes, which have been protected through a palisade and a moat. However, after she soon have become too small, she changed into inhabited only for defense functions. The first lord of the castle in 1138 was Heinricus de Pertoldesdorf. Under his successor, the wooden buildings had been changed by means of masonry and constructed a bailey with a wall. In this country, she changed into additionally resident. It became additionally the nonetheless status South Tower constructed as a hold. The fortress chapel on the second one floor of the citadel was raised in 1217 under Bishop Ulrich II of Passau to the parish church.