Pabenschwandt residence

The Pabenschwandt residence is a single farm north-east of the town center of the Plainfeld municipality in the Salzburg region .

history

St. Leonhard Chapel in Pabenschwandt

Entrance door of the Pabenschwandt residence

Memorial plaque on the west side of the St. Leonhard Chapel

The earliest mention of the name Pabenschwandt from 1269 concerns a Konrad von Pabenswant, who vouched for the brothers Kuno and Konrad von Kalheim. On December 26, 1288, the brothers named, together with Heinrich von Kalham, handed over the wife of Gottfried von Pabenswant, Hedwig, and her seven children to the Salzburg Church. In 1336 the Pawenswanter are mentioned as landlords. The last of this family, Eustach von der Alm, left Pabenschwant to his servant Sebastian Hartberger when he died. After he died in 1567 without an heir, his family sold the farm to the "Edl and Vest Hanns Hess and Anna Copeindlin". Balthasar von Raunach acquired the farm in 1574, but had the administration transferred to Wartenfels. The keeper of Wartenfels, David Widmannster, bought the estate in 1606 and then bequeathed it to his children. In 1678 Ferdinand Hueber bought Pabenschwandt. The courtyard, which was designated as the “aristocratic Freyer seat” in 1688, was sold in 1705 by the Abtenau keeper Josef Pock von Arnholz to Abbot Placidus Mayrhauser of the St. Peter Abbey (Salzburg) . After buying Schloss Pabenschwandt, St. Peter even wanted to have a larger chapel built in honor of the Three Kings with a daily measurement license , but had to abandon the project after buying Schloss Goldenstein .

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary, the Archabbey of St. Peter and the Prangerschützen Plainfeld built a chapel in honor of St. Leonhard . It was inaugurated by Archabbot Edmund Wagenhofer on November 5, 2006 after a construction period of around six months.

Building description

In the 18th century the estate consisted of a three-storey, brick mansion with a bay window, an octagonal extension and a house chapel. In 1844 the free castle was fundamentally redesigned and converted into a farmhouse. The bay window, the octagonal extension and the house chapel disappeared. In 1927 the building was modernized again. Today the courtyard has a cubic structure with a mighty hipped roof and a central floor plan.

History of Pabenschwandt in the time of National Socialism

In 1941 the farm was confiscated by the Gestapo . From spring 1943 to April 25, 1945 there was a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp in Pabenschwandt. Ten female prisoners were used to work on the Pabenschwandt experimental farm; these were Jehovah's Witnesses from the Ravensbrück concentration camp . A French, a Pole and a Polish girl also worked in the field command. The satellite camp was placed under the Dachau concentration camp on December 1, 1944.

Under the SS medical officer Karl Fahrenkamp, a protege of Heinrich Himmler , who moved to Pabenschwandt in the spring of 1943, nutritional experiments were undertaken there. Himmler has been to Pabenschwandt several times for lectures.

Today there is an inscription on the west side of the Pabenschwandt Chapel in memory of the Nazi prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp .

In 1947 the farm was returned to St. Peter's Monastery and is now a prosperous company.

literature

Friederike Zaisberger , Walter Schlegel : Castles and palaces in Salzburg. Flachgau and Tennengau. Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, St. Pölten, 1992. ISBN 3-85326-957-5 .
Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 2: Early camp, Dachau, Emsland camp. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52962-3 .
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .

Web links

Salzburgwiki - Pabenschwandt

Individual evidence

↑ Testimony of a forced laborer.
↑ Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel, Angelika Königseder (eds.): The Place of Terror: History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps Early Dachau Camp, Emsland Camp: Bd. 2. Munich: CH Beck, ISBN 978-3-406-52962-7 .
^ Karl Fahrenkamp: born on April 20, 1889 in Aachen, died by suicide on December 21, 1945 near Pabenschwandt . Cardiologist, Himmler's personal doctor, belonged to the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS , Directorate F. He worked on the plantation in Dachau. See also: Benno Müller-Hill : Deadly Science. The singling out of Jews, Gypsies and the mentally ill 1933–1945 . Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1984, conversation Müller-Hill with Wolfgang Abel , p. 144f.

47.837071 13.189127 590Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 13.46 " N , 13 ° 11 ′ 20.86" E

[1] Testimony of a forced laborer.

[2] Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel, Angelika Königseder (eds.): The Place of Terror: History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps Early Dachau Camp, Emsland Camp: Bd. 2. Munich: CH Beck, ISBN 978-3-406-52962-7 .

[3] Karl Fahrenkamp: born on April 20, 1889 in Aachen, died by suicide on December 21, 1945 near Pabenschwandt . Cardiologist, Himmler's personal doctor, belonged to the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS , Directorate F. He worked on the plantation in Dachau. See also: Benno Müller-Hill : Deadly Science. The singling out of Jews, Gypsies and the mentally ill 1933–1945 . Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1984, conversation Müller-Hill with Wolfgang Abel , p. 144f.