Wellenstein residence

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Wellenstein Residence (2008)
View from the L 1 country road to the Ansitz (February 2020)

The Wellenstein residence is a listed building, which is located at the southern entrance to the village in the Wellenstein parcel of the Lochau municipality in Vorarlberg , Austria at the foot of the Pfänder at about 410  m above sea level. A. is located.

location

The Ansitz Wellenstein is located 70 m east of Highway L1 . The Wellenstein Cave is located about 130 m to the southeast above the residence . The fork in the road: Bregenzer Strasse / Lindauer Strasse L 190 and Landstrasse L 1 and the Langer Stein memorial are around 170 m to the south-west.

history

The estate in front of the Staine was first mentioned here in 1338 . Hainrich Boner the Younger donated the Bregenz parish church Bregenz-St. Gallus spent an eternal year for his father-in-law and decreed that the interest from his estate in the Stain and all that belongs to it should first be used by the Klus zu Bregentz .

The Wellenstein mansion was created in the course of the ennoblement of the Bregenz patrician Ulrich Reutin ( Ulrich Junker Reutin von Wellenstein ) in 1555. However, Reutin was not ennobled until 1559. This residence is like others in Vorarlberg , e.g. B. Birkbach in Koblach , Hahnenberg in Weiler , Weißenberg in Zwischenwasser , Amberg Castle in Feldkirch - Levis , the Jonas-Schlössle in Götzis or the Mittelweiherburg in Hard and others, a form of representation of the new class by rich city citizens, civil servants and military in Vorarlberg. These families focused on influence and wealth. So owned z. B. 1660 the 22 richest families in Bregenz (= 6% of taxpayers) around ¾ of the total wealth.

The Reutin von Wellenstein family died out in the third generation, and the Schmid von Wellenstein family followed through the marriage of the heir daughter to Heinrich Schmid (a member of a citizen of Bregenz) in 1599 (see also: Schedler residence ). After this family died out, the Locher von Angerzell followed , then the Bregenz Johann Georg Deuring . In 1647 it became the property of Colonel Anton von Messner, who later became the owner of Oberlochau. In 1674 the Salis family bought the property . In 1686 the buildings passed to the bailiff Benedikt Reichart, at the same time as Wolfurt Castle , and from then on he was called Reichart von Wolfurt and Wellenstein . In 1791, the properties were acquired by the previous tenant, Ambros Hehle, along with an alp near Sibratsgfäll and subsequently expanded by this family. This family held the property until the end of the 19th century.

On October 4, 1977, the mansion was auctioned and Gertrude Rupp bought it.

The residence was renovated in 1965 and completely refurbished in 1982/83. 1982/83 the expansion of the economic wing with apartments followed. Today the building is also used for exhibitions (Atelier NONOS).

building

The residence itself is a two-storey rectangular building (around 9 x 12 meters) from the Renaissance with a pointed gable roof . The rectangular windows are evenly distributed in the facade. At the northeast corner there is a three-storey projecting square tower with a Welscher hood . The entrance portal is in the east. On the keystone of the arch of the entrance portal is an empty coat of arms with a baron's crown.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ansitz Wellenstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ObjectID: 1522.
  2. ^ Vorarlberger Landesarchiv , document 1202 of March 14, 1469.
  3. ^ Alois Niederstätter: Vorarlberg 1523 to 1861. On the way to the country. 2015, ISBN 978-3-7030-0911-2 , p. 49 f. (google books)
  4. ^ Alois Niederstätter: Vorarlberg 1523 to 1861. On the way to the country. 2015, p. 53. (google books)
  5. ↑ The old noble seat Oberlochau is mentioned in the Middle Ages. Heinrich Schmid von Wellenstein and his sister were already fiefdoms here. In 1832 the residence was allodialized and on January 17, 1834 it was sold to the previous tenant Josef Hehle. The Hehle family sold the residence in 1894 to the order of the Vinzentinerinnen from Zams, who ran the Herz-Jesu-Heim here in 1926 and continued to renovate and expand the residence (see Erwin Bennat in Community Chronicle Lochau 1186 to 1986. , p. 193 f).
  6. ↑ Erwin Bennat, Municipality of Lochau (ed.): Municipality Chronicle Lochau 1186 to 1986. Lochau 1986, DNB 890378894 .
  7. ↑ a b DEHIO Vorarlberg 1983.
  8. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau , published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p 131st
  9. ↑ Villa Wellenstein in Lochau , vol.at of October 16, 2018.

Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '25.5 "  N , 9 ° 45' 8.2"  E