Tabor Castle

One of the most beautiful and romantic places in southern Burgenland is Tabor Castle in Neuhaus am Klausenbach. It lies in the middle of the rolling hills of the Raab-Örség-Goricko Nature Park, in the border triangle of Austria, Hungary and Slovenia and is one of the oldest buildings in the Jennersdorf district.

 

This building type goes back to Hussite fortifications in the Czech city of Tábor, hence the name. The castle in Neuhaus was first mentioned in 1469. In the course of his feud with Emperor Friedrich III, the noble mercenary leader Ulrich Pesnitzer build a provisional weir, but it did not long endure. The castle in its current form was built in the 17^th century, when the powerful Hungarian noble Batthyány family came into the possession of the Neuhaus dominion. Under the Batthyánys, Tabor Castle became the seat of the manorial estate administration, though the family mostly lived in Vienna or on one of their other estates. At the end of the Second World War, the castle briefly served as a tank workshop for Soviet troops before it was finally converted into a purely residential building. The Batthyánys continued to own Tabor Castle until 1992.