Aigenegg Castle

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Aigenegg Castle
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Coat of arms of the Gartner von Romansbrück family

The Aigenegg Castle (sometimes also called Aicheck called) is located in the town of Wels in Wels-Land in Bruck Hofstraße 1. Its present form as a lock received the building between 1910 and 1913. Before that it was a brewery and an estate.

History of the castle

Originally there was an estate of the Kremsmünster Abbey at the site of the castle , which was sold in 1354 to Hartneid Krämer, a citizen of Wels. Wolf Weinbergmayr built a brewery here in 1610. He was a peasant leader during the Peasant War and was sent by Stefan Fadinger in 1626 to negotiate with Emperor Ferdinand II . In 1629 Weinbergmayr was granted brewing rights . Another owner of the brewery, which was then the guild to Lambach belonged was 1701 Georg Obauer, according to his son Johann Joseph, then Joseph Georg Obauer. The last Obauer died in 1831. At that time, around 4000 buckets of beer were brewed annually  . Michael Kiener, who married into the family, sold the brewery to Alois Wieser in 1846. Other owners were Josef Rohrhofer in 1906 and Anton Reisegger in 1908. Under this the brewery came to the brewery cooperative Wels, and the Thalheim operation was shut down.

The building was called "Schloss Aicheck" as early as the 19th century. The Austro-Hungarian Privy Council and General of the Infantry i. R. Anton Gartner von Romansbrück acquired Aigenegg in 1910 through an exchange from the Brangen. He built a new roof structure and a tower. In 1913 the castle came to Josefine Gilnow, 1922 by purchase to Moritz Maas, 1923 to Thomas Weber, 1924 to Hans Kierner, 1929 to Heinrich Voraberger and 1955 to Josef Eska, glove manufacturer from the Sudetenland ; he set up a glove production facility that no longer exists today. Today the castle is privately owned.

description

The castle is a two-wing, three-story building with a four-story corner tower. At the end of the main facade is the arched entrance gate. The coat of arms of the barons of Gartner-Machtenhofen is placed above this castle entrance. The ground floor is set off by a plaster block. The west and north facades were restored in 1986/87 . There should be a picture of Stefan Fadinger in the stairwell. The castle is not open to the public.

literature

  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now. Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
  • Karl Stumpfoll: Heimatbuch Thalheim bei Wels. Thalheim near Wels, Thalheim 1954.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '4.8 "  N , 14 ° 1' 56.4"  E