Schloss Hof

Schloss Hof is the most important of the six Marchfeld castles. It is positioned east of Vienna in the village of Schloss hof in the marketplace metropolis of Engelhartstetten within the district of Gänserndorf in Lower Austria, now not a ways from the March, which bureaucracy the border with Slovakia, and is visible from a long distance on the threshold of the river terrace.

The baroque palace complicated is composed essentially of the real citadel building, a 7th-row baroque garden in east-west direction, a farmyard complex with orangery in the north and big stables within the west. The Veste Hof, first stated in the twelfth and 13th centuries, become for a long time within the ownership of the Eckartsauer, who until 1507 loved the privilege to shield the ford over the March. In the early sixteenth century, the Veste Hof fell in short into the arms of Pollheimer, earlier than it become in the end acquired through Eustachius Pranckh of Rickersdorf from the Styrian noble family Pranckh to Rickersdorf.