Schloss Neuwaldegg
Schloss Neuwaldegg takes its character from the way it remakes the landscape. The estate began as a farmstead acquired after the 1529 Siege of Vienna by Imperial councillor Stefan Agler, who was ennobled by Emperor Ferdinand I and named an “Edler of Paumgarten and Neuwaldegg” in 1539. Around 1697, Count Theodor von Strattman commissioned the Baroque palace, likely with plans associated with Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, and it originally sat beside a French formal garden. The decisive transformation comes in 1765, when Field Marshal Count Franz Moritz von Lacy—confidant of Empress Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II—bought the property and laid out one of the first English landscape parks in the Habsburg monarchy. His hilltop “Hameau” included 17 reed cottages for guests, and a mausoleum built in 1794 became his last resting place. …
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