Schloss Loosdorf

Om museet

The complex in Loosdorf, today part of the municipality of Fallbach, is documented as a fortified stronghold in 1416 and changed hands several times over the following centuries. In 1645 Swedish troops destroyed the castle. From 1732 Prince Emanuel of Liechtenstein had the present castle built together with a church; at the end of the 18th century, under Johann I of Liechtenstein, it received a neoclassical garden façade, a state staircase and a landscape garden.

In 1834 Friedrich August Piatti acquired the estate and brought with him from Dresden the family's porcelain collection, built up since the 18th century, consisting mainly of Japanese and Chinese pieces for European noble houses. At the end of the war in 1945 most of the collection was wantonly smashed. The family kept the fragments and arranged them in the so-called Room of Shards as a memorial against war and violence. In 1959 a castle museum opened for the first time.

Since the mid-2010s selected pieces have been restored with Japanese experts and the University of Applied Arts Vienna; restored objects have already been shown in museums in Japan. Today the Piatti family presents the state rooms, the Room of Shards and the restored porcelain as the "Broken Collection" in the form of guided tours.

Højdepunkter

• Room of Shards with porcelain fragments sorted by manufacturer
• Restored Japanese, Chinese and European porcelain
• Neoclassical state rooms from the Liechtenstein era
• Tours for groups of 5 or more, optionally with a meal in the castle

Permanent udstilling

• Broken Collection – State rooms, the Room of Shards and restored porcelain tell of destruction in war and of reconstruction.

Grundlagt

1959

Ejer

Agri.Kultur Piatti (Familie Piatti)

Entrépriser & rabatter

Admission €12 per person plus a flat fee of €55 per tour. Optionally bookable: tour with an exclusive meal in the castle.

Tilgængelighed

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Børn og familie

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Transport & parkering

Loosdorf is in the municipality of Fallbach in the Mistelbach district (not to be confused with Loosdorf in the Melk district); according to the operator, about 55 minutes' drive from central Vienna.

Service & spisesteder

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Arrangementer & udlejning

• Lokaler til leje
• Private fester
• Bryllupper / vielser

Op til 250 personer.

Civil and church weddings (adjacent parish church) as well as family celebrations; halls for approx. 130 people, outdoors approx. 250 people.

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