Aigen Castle (Atzbach)
The Schloss Aigen is in the municipality of Atzbach in District Vöcklabruck of Upper Austria (Atzbach 77) at an altitude of 465 m above sea level. A.
history
Aigen was first mentioned in 1447 and 1449. At that time, Aigen was a fiefdom of the Wallseer . Around 1600 the former castle was converted into today's palace . At that time it was owned by the Querrer von Wolfsegg family . Mathias Ostermann owned the castle around 1750, followed by Franz von Hausladen and his descendants in 1757.
Other owners were: Karl Pucher (1809), the Panholzer family (1817–1824), Michael Pühringer, Benedikt Heiliger (1826), Juliane Heiliger (1831), Johann Nepomuk Gaugl (1835), Viktor Dronat (1837), Mathias Lanzentorfer (1838) ), Leopold Krempl (1849), Carl Hochleitner (1851), Johann Castaldo (1853), Oswald Freiherr von Stenglin (1870), Maria Freein von Spiegelfeld (1872), Josef Lippmann Ritter von Lissingen (1874), Eugenie von Wurzbach-Tannenberg (1902), Franz Schuster (1904), Friedrich Wisse (1910), August Fieger (1914), Heinrich Koran (1917–1938), Clemens Auer, E. Schausberger (1967).
After the Second World War , Aigen Castle was confiscated as German property. The last tenant was Arthus Harthauser from 1947 to 1949. It then stood empty until 1967.
Today the castle is filled with life through cultural events.
description
The castle stands in an area that is enclosed by a stone wall. At the entrance side of at the point gatehouse a two-bladed, wrought-iron gate. The castle is two-storey and hook-shaped. It has a broken mansard roof with four corner turrets sitting on consoles with a broken roof and an onion crowned by a knob. The windows on the ground floor are equipped with wrought iron window baskets. In the castle courtyard there is a triangular coat of arms stone of the Querrer with the year 1593.
The castle has been rebuilt many times and its current appearance dates from the end of the 20th century. The former palace chapel no longer stands. The castle has been fundamentally renovated by the Schausberger family since the 1970s .
literature
- Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home . 3. Edition. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
Web links
- Entry via Aigen (Atzbach) to Burgen-Austria
- Local history of Atzbach
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 30.6 " N , 13 ° 42 ′ 22.2" E