Puchberg Castle Education Center
The Bildungshaus Schloss Puchberg is an educational institution of the Diocese of Linz in the city of Wels in the Puchberg district .
history
From 1595 the Protestant politician Christoph Puechner built a palace in the Renaissance style in Puchberg . The baroque castle fountain with a Neptune figure in the forecourt was built in 1740. Currently (October 2016) it is headed by Wilhelm Achleitner.
The arms dealer Alfred Ritter von Jurnitschek from Vienna bought the palace in 1877 and had it redesigned in the classical style, with the sgraffiti in the forecourt, the mosaic floors, the stucco ceilings and the neo-baroque mirror hall being created. Jurnitschek sold the castle in the course of a patent litigation with the Steyr weapons manufacturer Josef Werndl to the rubber manufacturer Josef Reithoffer in Steyr.
In the time of National Socialism , the castle was also used to billet military personnel, for example from the Wels air base.
Reithoffer's granddaughter Gisela Kobbe sold the castle to the Ministry of Agriculture in 1950, which sold the war-damaged castle to the Diocese of Linz in 1952.
The rural youth chaplain Karl Wild as the first rector of the Bildungshaus and the general secretary of the Catholic Action Josef Gruber as the first director of the Bildungshaus began in 1953 with rural educational work. From 1960 the castle became a general education center and was expanded by additions by the architects Karl Odorizzi 1960/61 and 1972/73, Nobl & Nobl & Roth 1985–1987 and Maul & Luger 2002.
Web links
- Homepage of the Bildungshaus Schloss Puchberg
- Entry via Puchberg (near Wels) to Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ^ Right-hand meeting: Celebrities call for unloading orf.at, October 18, 2016, accessed October 18, 2016.
- ↑ On the history of the house ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dioezese-linz.at, Wilhelm Achleitner, September 2008.
- ↑ Cf. Markus Rachbauer: The German Wehrmacht in Wels 1938-1945, in: Stadt Wels (ed.), National Socialism in Wels, Volume 3, Wels 2015, p. 106 f.
- ↑ On the history of the house ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dioezese-linz.at, Wilhelm Achleitner, September 2008
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 26.4 " N , 14 ° 0 ′ 38.6" E