Structures - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1962 - 3.50 Shilling

The Kanizsai were the builders of the castle in its original form. They built it around 1371 as a medieval fortress in the late Gothic style and thus transferred the previously modest village Eisenstadt on the edge of the Leitha mountains an important function. After changeful skill in the late Middle Ages, Eisenstadt came into Habsburg possession around the middle of the 15th century. Castle and rule gave the Austrians to various caretakers, until 1622 Count Nikolaus Esterhazy used as pawnbrokers and in 1648 his son Paul I left both as hereditary property. Under him, the already dilapidated castle was generously rebuilt. For this, the famous Italian architect Carlo Martino Carlone was brought to Eisenstadt, who began with the reconstruction in 1663 and completed it until 1672. Prince Nicholas III, the Prachtliebende, decreed a new reconstruction of the Esterhazy Palace at the end of the 18th century. The neo-classical façade with the pillars supported by columns and the rear façade facing the park with its impressive, high Corinthian column portico date from this period. The castle park reflects the taste of the beginning of the 19th century and is atmospheric in the slope of Leitha mountain.