Weißpriach Castle
The derelict Weißpriach Castle is located in the municipality of the same name in Lungau in the Province of Salzburg in Austria .
Today only the former castle chapel, St. Rupert's Church , is preserved.
history
The castle was an important fortress that served as court camp for Archbishop of Salzburg Friedrich II von Walchen in 1280 and 1281 . It can be seen as the headquarters of the Lords of Weißpriach . These were ministerials of the Archdiocese of Salzburg . In contrast to the much earlier church complex, the castle or its tower is only attested in 1272. At that time Otto von Weißpriach appeared as a witness in a document for the Salzburg cathedral chapter .
In the second half of the 15th century there is talk of an independent tower , after which the family of Archbishop Burkhard von Weißpriach named themselves. When this male family died out with Johann von Weißpriach († 1571), his Salzburg fiefdom went to Ferdinand Khuen von Belasy zu Lichtenberg and Gartenau in 1587 . In 1717 ownership passed to Johanna Mayr von Bürglau, who brought him into her marriage to Franz Judas Thaddäus Reichsritter von Hofmühlen. His son Franz Gottlieb Reichsfreier von Hofmühlen, Bavarian colonel and Salzmaier zu Reichenhall inherited this again. He sold it to von La Rosee, governor of Ingolstadt, who in turn handed it over to his son-in-law, Wilhelm Konrad Freiherr von Pechmann, an electoral Bavarian Salzmaier in Traunstein and Reichenhall.
In 1781 there is evidence of the castle's upright masonry. It was used to raise the gable wall of the church ( the old castle wall , which rose high above the church ). Other stones from the ruined castle are said to have been used to build a nearby farmhouse (Schwarzenbichlergut). At the end of the 18th century , only the sacristan's house that is still preserved today remains of the buildings of the former fortification.
Castle remains today
On the west wall of St. Rupert's Church there is a walled-up doorway, which presumably formed the connection between the church and the castle; its threshold is marked by a Roman spoiler . The church and the sexton stand within the former castle walls. Head-high masonry of a tower has been preserved on the west side.
literature
- Friederike Zaisberger & Walter Schlegel : Castles and palaces in Salzburg. Pongau, Pinzgau, Lungau . Birch series, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-85030-037-4 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 10 ′ 7.1 ″ N , 13 ° 42 ′ 22.4 ″ E