Reign of Wartenburg

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The seat of the dominion Wartenburg was in today's Altwartenburg, a place of the municipality Timelkam on the municipality border to Vöcklabruck .

Owner or leaseholder

Wolfgang Freiherr von Polheim (1458–1512)

The rule was first mentioned in a document with Arnold von Wartenburg in 1128 in the deed of foundation of the Benedictine monastery Gleink . In 1319, Ortolf von Pollheim, a Polheimer, was named for the first time as the owner of the property, which then remained in the possession of the Lords of Pollheim (Polheim-Wartenburg line) for over 300 years. One of the most important owners was Wolfgang von Polheim (1458–1512), who founded the first Paulaner monastery in German-speaking countries in nearby Oberthalheim . His son Cyriak von Polheim (1495–1533) and his descendants joined the Reformation .

In the course of the Counter Reformation , the rule was sold around 1640 by the Protestant Ludwig von Pollheim to the Catholic Tobias Nutz von Goisernburg. He succeeded in converting the fief into free property . In the 17th century, Wartenburg also combined the rule of Oberperckham, the seat of Schwarzgrub, the Peisser subjects, Ainwalding Castle and the Windern Fortress .

Around 1729 Johann Albert Graf Saint-Julien- Wallsee bought the estate from the useful bankruptcy estate. He also built Neuwartenburg Castle on the other bank of the Vöckla . The castle was built for the emperor and his wife who lived there for 3 days. Then there were several changes of ownership (Johann Ignaz von Ghelen, Freiherr Johann Georg Grechtler, Freiherr von Reischach, Ludwig von Ratzesberg) and in 1869 it came back into the possession of the Counts of Saint-Julien-Wallsee. With the end of the monarchy the rule became obsolete.

The memory of the property lives on in the names of the Wartenburg cadastral community (Timelkam community) and Neuwartenburg and Altwartenburg .

Mansions

  • Wartenburg Castle was located on a hill on the left Vöcklaufer and was partially demolished in the 18th century. At the moment only the round keep is left .

  • Alt-Wartenburg Castle : Tobias Nutz von Goisernburg, who bought the rule from Ludwig von Polheim in 1639 , built a castle on a hilltop near the castle. The new manor house was partly built with the demolition material from the old castle, but a Vischer engraving from 1674 shows the old castle and the new mansion connected by a bridge. The castle burned down in 1678, but was rebuilt in 1689/90. After the Neu-Wartenburg Castle was built in 1732, the Alt-Wartenburg Castle only had a secondary purpose and after the Second World War the castle largely fell into ruin. Until 2010 the area was used for occasional open-air events. The castle area and all access routes are officially closed until further notice (as of 2020).
  • Neuwartenburg Castle is located on the right Vöcklaufer below Wartenburg Castle and was built by the Viennese architect Anton Erhard Martinelli between 1730 and 1732 on behalf of Johann Albert Count Saint-Julien-Wallsee (1673–1766) .

  • Keep of Wartenburg Castle

  • Alt-Wartenburg Castle

  • Neu-Wartenburg Castle

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Georg Grüll : Herrschaftsarchiv Wartenburg. Upper Austrian Provincial Archives, Linz 1955, p. 2 ( PDF, 335 kB ; accessed on July 3, 2020).
  2. ↑ a b c Entry about Alt-Wartenburg on Burgen-Austria accessed on 23 Nov. 2009
  3. ↑ a b Alt-Wartenburg . DORIS> Castles, palaces, ruins.
  4. ^ Castle history: Neuwartenburg , accessed on Nov. 23, 2009; Entry via Neu-Wartenburg to Burgen-Austria

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 40 ″  N , 13 ° 37 ′ 20 ″  E