Mittelweiherburg
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| Creation time : | around 1570 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Place: | Hard | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 28 '55 " N , 9 ° 42' 14" E | |
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The Mittelweiherburg is a moated castle built around 1570 in the Vorarlberg market town of Hard .
history
Established in 1570
The moated castle was built around 1570 in the headwaters of the Harder Dorfbach. The pond surrounding the castle has not been preserved.
As the remainder of the original complex, only the western side wing with the stair tower on the side has been preserved. It is a three-storey rectangular building under a steep pitched roof and the tower has a round floor plan. Traces of the broken main wing can still be seen on the eastern facade.
After many changes of ownership (including the Deuring family, Weingarten Abbey ), it was the cradle of the Vorarlberg textile industry from 1794. A textile printing shop was set up there by the manufacturer Samuel Vogel from Alsace . In 1838 the building was acquired by the Swiss manufacturer Melchior Jenny for the Jenny & Schindler company. Subsequently, after 1867, the textile printing shop was continued by Samuel Schindler .
Current use - textile printing museum
In the years 1957 to 1962 the first renovation and the establishment of a local museum took place. Since 1997 the Mittelweiherburg has housed a textile printing museum with a focus on form stitching, textile hand printing and the social history of industrialization up to the 1930s.
Web links
- Entry via Mittelweiherburg on Burgen-Austria
- Website of the textile printing museum Mittelweiherburg Hard