Puchheim Castle

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Copper engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer : Puchheim Palace (1674)
The gate tower of the castle

Puchheim Castle is located in the Puchheim district of the Upper Austrian city ​​of Attnang-Puchheim .

history

The previous building was a Feste Puchheim , which was mentioned in a document in 1130 and fell victim to a fire in 1585.

Originally the Feste Puchheim was the ancestral castle of the knight family von Puchheim . The noble family is one of the primeval nobility and one of the so-called Apostle families of Austria. In 1348 Albrecht von Puchheim transferred his entire Upper Austrian property to the Habsburg Albrecht II of Austria and received Litschau and Heidenreichstein as a fief. In 1462 Duke Albrecht VI sold. the castle and in 1551 it came into the possession of the Polheimers . In 1585 the medieval fortified castle burned down and the Polheimers built a four-wing castle in the Renaissance style in its place . In the course of the re-Catholicization of the Ob der Enns area by Emperor Rudolf II , the Upper Austrian uprising took place . After the suppression of the uprising, the possessions of the Polheimers, who had supported the rebellion, were confiscated by the Bavarian governor of Upper Austria, Count Adam von Herberstorff , in 1627. From 1636 to 1767 the castle belonged to the Salburgers and until 1838 to the Counts of Fuchs .

In 1839 the castle came into the possession of Archduke Maximilian Joseph of Austria-Este , a grandson of Maria Theresa . In 1847 he brought the Jesuits to Puchheim for pastoral care, but they had to leave Puchheim again in the course of the revolution of 1848/49 (the order was repealed in Austria). In 1851, at the instigation of the Archduke, the Redemptorists of Altötting came , who owned the current main palace with the five-aisled pilgrimage basilica Maria Puchheim , built on the west side in 1890 . The preliminary castle is owned by the city of Attnang-Puchheim and the Diocese of Linz , after it was owned by the Bourbon-Parma family from 1892 to 1993 .

Puchheim Castle today

Inner courtyard of the castle with a copper beech designated as a natural monument

The current palace complex consists of the actual palace with the pilgrimage basilica Maria Puchheim and a pre-palace (farmyard), in which the state music school, the Maximilianhaus education center, the parish center of the parish Maria Puchheim and the gallery Schloss Puchheim are housed.

The copper beech, which is a natural monument in the inner courtyard of the Puchheim castle, was opened on the night of 18./19. August 2017 largely destroyed by the storm.

literature

Web links

Commons : Palace and monastery of Puchheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry about Puchheim Castle on Burgen-Austria ; accessed on Sep. 13 2010
  2. ^ Redemptorist Monastery Puchheim: Maria Puchheim, Verlag Welsermühl, Wels 1991
  3. ^ Stadtgemeinde Attnang-Puchheim: History and information on the town and tourist community ; accessed on Sep. 13 2010
  4. ^ City of Attnang-Puchheim: copper beech in the Puchheim castle courtyard destroyed by the storm! ; accessed on March 1, 2018

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 59.6 "  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 54.8"  E