Noble seat in Harbach

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The noble seat of Harbach was in the Urfahr district of Linz in Upper Austria .

history

The Kienast family of knights had lived on Gut Harbach since the beginning of the 15th century. The Kienasts can be found in the Mühlviertel as well as in Amstetten in Lower Austria. A Chunrat of the Chienast can be documented for the first time in 1396. Already in 1406 this chunrat seals the Kienast "zu Harbach". The son of Chunrat was called Mathes Kienast (* 1408) and lived in Harbach in the first half of the 15th century. Then he acquired the princely fiefdom, the seat of Tannbach (Dambach), in the parish of Gutau and also began to call himself after 1459. Mathes Kienast was enfeoffed by Christoph von Liechtenstein in 1445 with Harbach and other goods. At his death in 1519 (he was 111 years old!) He left six children. The oldest, Albrecht Kienast, received the family seat in Tannbach. The remaining estates, all of which were fiefdoms of the Lords of Liechtenstein, were divided among the siblings. Harbach presumably got to Bartholome Khienast from Tampach, the younger one. In 1535 he sold his fiefs in Urfahr and Linz, including the free nobleman seat Harbach, to the imperial councilor Eberhart Merschlach von Reichenau and his son Joachim.

The Reichenau line of the Marschlach died out in 1551 with the unmarried Ehrenreich Marschlach, son of Joachim. The Liechtenstein fiefdoms have reverted to the fiefdom. In 1553 Georg Hartmann von Liechtenstein lent these goods to Johann Baptista Pacheleb († 1560), imperial councilor and chamber procurator, also rector magnificus of the University of Vienna. The Gerhaben the still unvogtbaren son Charles sold the possessions in 1561 to Carl Haiden to Achau and Gunderndorf , landlord of the Reichenau. Already in 1564 he sold Harbach and other Liechtenstein fiefdoms to Christoph Hakhl von Lustenfelden . Since Hakhl died without heirs in 1577, his fiefdom fell back to the fiefdom. Hartmann von Liechtenstein enfeoffed Wolfgang Püdtler (Pitler), imperial councilor and regent of the Lower Austrian lands, with Harbach in 1577. In 1581 he sold it to Jörger von Tollet . Helmhart Jörger and his brothers Wolfgang and Bernhart received the fiefdom letter for the seat in Harbach in 1583. Under the Jörgern Harbach sank down to a farm. In 1633 David Ungnad was enfeoffed by Karl Eusebius von Liechtenstein with the "Seat of Harbach"; a later fiefdom from 1644 only speaks of the "Gut zu Harbach". Despite several attempts by other Jörger, Harbach remained with other Liechtenstein fiefdoms in the possession of the Ungnad von Weißenwolff and formed the essential part of the newly created Lustenfelden rule.

Harbach today

The seat in Harbach can no longer be precisely located today, it may be identical with the Mayrgut or the Mair zu Harbach. But even today, a statistical district in Urfahr called the Harbachsiedlung reminds of the former noble seat.

literature

  • Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home. 3rd edition . Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .
  • Franz Wilflingseder : History of the rule Lustenfelden near Linz (Kaplanhof). Book publisher of the Democratic Printing and Publishing Society (special publications on the history of the city of Linz), Linz 1952.