Rosenhof Castle

The castle also includes its own forest administration and a sawmill, which are housed in outbuildings. The castle owns considerable forest property around Sandl; the Böhmerwald Road (B 38) passes through sections of the manorial forest.

The Rosenhof Ponds belong to the castle; the lower (smaller) one is a popular public swimming pond.

The ponds were primarily built to ensure sufficient water for timber floating. In the 19th century, large quantities of wood were floated every spring via the Flammbach, Schwarze Aist, and Waldaist into the Aist, where the logs were then bound into large rafts in Au an der Donau and floated to Vienna. The labor-intensive and dangerous timber floating was only discontinued in 1947 – logs could then be transported more cheaply by truck and train.

The two-story castle is located on the edge of a dense forest not far from the Czech border, with a view of the town of Sandl. The horseshoe-shaped complex is grouped around a courtyard of honor. The central section features a broken mansard roof, while the two side wings are covered with hip roofs. The roof truss likely dates from the 18th century, the dormers from the 19th century.

The facade is kept simple, and the entrance gate, flanked by columns, is located in the three-axis central risalit projecting from the facade. The hip roof above it is broken by round-arched dormers with lateral volutes. On the garden side, the Kinsky coat of arms is affixed. In 2010, as part of a general renovation, two extensions were added to the rear of the castle as a boiler house and garage, each with a connecting corridor to the existing castle. The castle itself is situated in the middle of an extensive park.

The current interior furnishings were taken from other Kinsky family castles. Rosa Kinsky also owned Kinsky Castle in Freistadt at the time, which later became the hospital in the Linzer Vorstadt (today: Zemannstraße 29). A painting of the Pardubice Steeplechase hangs in the stairwell. The ballroom is in the northwest corner of the building and is decorated in white and blue. It was built in 1792 and illustrates Josephinian Classicism.