Almegg Castle

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Almegg Castle

The Almegg lock is in its current manifestation of a Renaissance castle . It was first mentioned in the 12th century and is located in the municipality of Steinerkirchen an der Traun in the Wels-Land district . The facility is privately owned and cannot be viewed publicly.

History of the castle

Almegg after an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

Almegg was registered as owned by the Kremsmünster Abbey as early as 1183 . The monastery lent the former castle as a fief to the Ministerial Otto de alben. In 1360 a Wolfgang Achleutner was named as a fief . The transfer of feudal sovereignty to the sovereign must have taken place in the 14th century. In 1380, Stephan the Sachs was given a fief by Duke Albrecht III. recorded. The Sachs remained in Almegg's possession until 1511. Thereafter, ownership of Almegg was divided between the barons of Ragendorf and Vinzenz Schaler. In 1530 the Aspan are again in the undivided possession of the castle. In 1626 Almegg was looted and set on fire by General Löbel and his soldiers. The property passed from the Aspans to the Albrechtsheimers, who gave it to Achaz Hohenfelder as marriage property. It remained in the possession of his family until 1808. Then Otto von Hohenfeld sold the castle to Franz Foret von Breitenfeld, who already sold it to Ehrenreich von Schinnern in 1811. Further changes of ownership followed, including to Carl von Pausinger, whose son Clemens von Pausinger grew up at the castle. In 1870 the complex and the estate came to Baron Franz von Handel and his wife Marie von Guaita. It is still owned by the family today.

present

The horseshoe-shaped facility lies on a slab of rock. A deep ditch can still be seen in the direction of the parking lot in front of the castle today. The massive castle tower should originally have been embedded in a curtain wall , on which residential wings were later built. The tower has a wedge roof . The gate with heavy gate leaves does not reveal anything of the atmospheric courtyard behind. The side wings are built directly on the vertical rock fall and connected to one another by a simple wall. There used to be a chapel on a rock ledge behind the left wing , but it fell into the depths in 1809 and was no longer rebuilt. The complex includes several buildings that used to be used for commercial purposes. The current building dates mainly from the 16th and 17th centuries. To the right of the entrance is the so-called Jägerhaus. In the middle of the main facade you can see the high baroque fresco of a Madonna in protective cloak designed as a sundial . The building on the left is part of the former fortifications .

  • Gallery wing

  • Hunter's house with sundial

literature

  • Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home. 3rd edition, Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .

Web links

Commons : Almegg Palace  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Aspernig: Two memory of the burial place of the knight family of the axes of Almegg in the parish church of Steiner Traun. In: Yearbook of the Wels Museum Association. Volume 1993/94/95, Wels 1996, pp. 361-364 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 14 "  N , 13 ° 55 ′ 14"  E