historical overview
After Christoph Freiherr von Concin had given up Perwarth Castle, which is about 100 m above today's castle ruins, because it no longer seemed comfortable enough to him, he had a valley castle built from 1555 to 1561. To distinguish it, it was called Niederperwarth, while the fortress left to decay was called Oberperwarth or Hochperwarth.
Looting of Perwarth Castle. On March 9th, Markgraber moved with his heap to Gresten, forced the subjects of the Hausegg rulership to do something and had the neighboring Perwarth Castle plundered.
The Habsburg government begins to split the insurgents. There is more negotiation with the Upper Austria rebels, while the Lower Austrian revolts are suppressed with extraordinary violence.
12.-29. April: Court martial in Kilb, Weinzierl, Perwarth, Ulmerfeld, Seitenstetten, Waidhofen.
In Kilb, for example, on April 12, 1597, nine farmers were hanged after their right hand had been chopped off and nailed to the tree. It makes sense that the expression “they must guard the pears” was coined for the executed peasants who were hanging on the trees. Two farmers suffered the same fate in Wieselburg on April 14, 17 farmers in Perwarth on April 17, and five farmers in Ulmerfeld on April 19
Transfer (April 24th) of Markgraber, Prunner and Schremser with other leaders (21 prisoners) to Vienna. Peasants' War in Austria (bauernkriege.de)
In 1612 the barons of Concin sold their rule to Gottfried Freiherrn von Tattenbach.
It was acquired by Cornelius Colonna von Fels in 1635. His family, however, probably did not live in it and did not show any great interest in its preservation, as it fell into disrepair in the late 17th century.
In the spring of 1711, the Habsburg monarchy put on a mourning ribbon. The young, not yet 33-year-old Emperor Josef I died of smallpox in mid-April. He sat on the imperial throne for barely six years, but a lively temperament and determination to implement urgently needed reforms marked his brief reign. Joseph promised to become a great emperor, his premature death buried many hopes. The grains were now taken over by his younger brother Karl, which was to have far-reaching consequences for the monarchy and beyond that for all of Europe.
The year 1711 was not only significant for the imperial family, but also for the Counts of Auersperg at Neuschloss-Purgstall. In November of this year, Wolf Ferdinand, the older brother of Wolf Augustin, died unexpectedly at Neuschloss-Purgstall. Before his death, Wolf Ferdinand lived with his family on the Wang estate, which was awarded to him (probably) after a comparison with his cousins from the Altschloss-Purgstaller branch; also the rule of Reinsberg belonged to it. Wolf Ferdinand's widow, Rosina Anna, remarried a year later - this time to her relative Karl Leopold Graf Zinzendorf and moved to live with him with her five small children. Wang and Reinsberg came into the hands of administrators and led a rather lonely existence until two decades later Wolf Engelbert's second son, Wolf Maximillian, took over the administration himself. His older brother, the first-born son of Wolf Ferdinand, Ernst Ferdinand, founded a new branch of the Counts Auersperg not far from Wang, on the Perwarth estate. This branch died out in the male line in the mid-19th century.
In 1723 the estate was sold to Karl Graf Zinzendorf, the count's stepfather, Ernst Ferdinand von Auersperg.
Four years later, the young count, who had just finished his studies in Salzburg, married Countess Maria Josefa Montecuccoli, who belonged to a very old Italian and well-established aristocratic family in Austria. On the occasion of his stepson's marriage, Count Zinzendorf renounced Perwarth and left it to the newlyweds. In the years that followed, the castle was the scene of numerous births, but also of deaths among the young Auersperg offspring - five out of nine children were unable to reach the first year of life. The wedding year also ushered in Ernst Ferdinand's long, successful career. In contrast to numerous aristocrats at the time, Ernst Ferdinand did not pursue a military career, but stayed in the civilian profession. At first he held the position of high commissioner in the district above the Vienna Woods, and 20 years later he was a permanent ordinarian in Lower Austria. His skills were obviously highly valued by the Lower Austrian provinces, as they appointed him a permanent committee member (perpetual committee). When he had no obligations, Ernst Ferdinand lived most of the time on Perwarth, his only possession for many years. When his wife Maria Josefa died in 1739, Ernst Ferdinand was only referred to as Herr von Perwarth. "In the year 1739 the well-born imperial count Ernest von Auersperg, ruling lord in Perwarth, bequeathed one of hers to a vestment in the house of God pro memoria from his gracious Countess née Montecuccoli. Item 6 white lanterns" (Vinzenz Pötsch, Chronik des Marktes Randegg 1895).
A few years later (after 1743) he received or (most likely) bought the Wolfpassing estate from the sons of his late stepfather Karl Leopold, which after a long time passed back into the ownership of the Lords of Auersperg.
Like many Lower Austrian residences, Emperor Franz I also bought Perwarth in 1834 and united it with the imperial rule of Wieselburg. Shortly before his death, the emperor planned to rebuild the palace, but it never came back. In 1852 everything useful was removed and walls partially torn down. (Source: http://www.wehrbauten.at/)
Auersperg - History of a European Family - Miha Preinfalk - 2006