Arbing Castle

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Arbing Castle

The Schloss Arbing is located in the same municipality Arbing in the district Perg in Upper Austria (Schlossberg 2). The ground floor of the building is now used as a "castle tavern".

history

1137 appears in a document of the Austrian Duke Leopold IV among the witnesses for the first time a "Gerboto de Arbingin" as a feudal man under the highly free Gottschalk von Perge-Machland . Arbing subsequently became a Kuenringer and then a Liechtenstein fief . In 1288 it came to the ministerial family of the Wetzel von Arbing ("Wetzelo de arbing"). 1356 a Wetzel von Erwing is mentioned, 1394 Dietreich and Dietmar the Wetzel von Ärbing, 1406 a Wetzel von Arbing. Wetzel IV and his son Dietmar both held the office of state judge in the Machland .

Arbing Castle after an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

The Wetzel von Arbing remained in the possession of the castle until 1406 . In 1464 Hans von Liechtenstein granted the pilgrim Walch the rule of Arbing, in 1485 it belonged to Lassla Prager. This was followed by the Walchen, who then called themselves Walchen von Arbing. The church of Arbing was built by the Walchen as a separate church in 1483 and the castle was rebuilt. Two tombstones made of red-spotted Adnet marble from the years 1520 and 1509 in the parish church commemorate this family. Simon Geyer von Osterberg acquired the castle from the Walchen in 1523 . Simon (1523–1535), Hektor, Roman and Karl (1535–1537) and then another Karl (1537–1544) are named as owners from the family of the Osterbergs. In 1544 this Karl Geyer von Osterberg sold the castle and rule to the Beck von Leopoldsdorf . In 1557 the Yslung von Tratzberg came into the possession of Arbing. In 1590 Arbing came back to the Geyer von Osterburg. In 1602 the pfennig master baron Hans Jakob Löbel bought Arbing. Arbing then went to Rudolf von Sprinzenstein as marriage property for his daughter Elisabeth . In 1622 the Sprinzensteiner sold the Arbing rule to Count Leonhard Helfrich von Meggau zu Greinburg . This proposed Arbing to his estate in Greinburg. From the heirs of the Meggauer Arbing went through the heirs to the Starhembergs (1644-1646), to Count Gottfried Breuner (1646-1668), Siegmund Ludwig von Dietrichstein (1668-1700) and to Count Octavius Cavriani (1700-1716). This was followed by Count Norbert von Salburg (1716–1811) and then Josef Karl Count von Dietrichstein (1811–1824). At the beginning of the 18th century Arbing has been redesigned: The moat was filled, the wall demolished and the former palace became a castle transformed.

In 1824 Count Christoph von Clam-Martinic acquired Arbing and united it with his rule Clam . In 1845 Countess Gabriele vom Paumgarten was co-owner of Arbing. In 1906 Count Heinrich von Clam-Martinic sold the ruinous castle building (without church and tower) to the innkeeper Josef Schweiger.

description

Since Arbing was merged with other rulers for centuries and administered from there, it is not surprising that the castle and the associated fortifications were no longer preserved and were subsequently neglected. Originally, Arbing was a rectangular, three- to four-storey building group with a bailey , moat, high ring wall , which also included the farm building (today cemetery) and the farm tavern (today Gasthaus Froschauer), and a mighty keep . At the beginning of the 18th century, the complex was converted into a castle.

Only a square residential tower (palas) with a high roof remains from the former castle . This building has a hipped gable roof from the end of the 16th century. On the first floor of the residential tower there is a tram ceiling made of larch wood (15th / 16th century). In the building of the palace there are mighty groin vaults on square pillars as well as needle cap barrels with stuccoed ridges, which can be dated to the end of the 16th century. Geometric field patterns and embossed moldings reveal what was once representative equipment. From the outside, the decaying building looks sober and clunky. It serves partly as a shed or as a storage room for the adjacent inn built into the curtain wall.

The church tower of Arbing (which is generally accessible inside) with its cranked gun turrets ( pepper boxes ) at the four corners and a platform was once the tower of the castle. But since it was only built around 1510, it cannot have been the keep of the high medieval castle. Towards the village, the hall and church are secured by a low wall from more recent times. At the site of the former gate building , Dorfstraße leads to the church square. Walls of the former outer bailey can be assumed under some bumps behind the inn .

  • Arbing Castle

  • Arbing church with steeple

  • Entrance to the castle tavern (year 1837)

  • Side view of the castle

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 .
  • Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in the Mühlviertel . In: Austria's castles and palaces . tape 1 . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1962.
  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Arbing  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documents (900-1797) 1137 ("Gerboto de arbingin" as a witness) in the European document archive Monasterium.net .
  2. ^ Christian K. Steingruber : A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual by Norbert Grabherr. Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz O. J., p. 191.

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '37.7 "  N , 14 ° 42' 22.1"  E