Castle Au an der Traun

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Castle Au an der Traun

The Castle Au an der Traun is located in the village of Roitham on Traunfall in the district of Gmunden in Upper Austria . It is a listed building.

history

Au an der Traun was probably around 1100 as a fortress built and was knight contemporary fief of the lord of the castle place to Gmunden . 1363 is called a Wernhart der Awer. The name Au was first mentioned in documents in 1446 in the “Wallseerisch Lehensbuch usque 1446” as “a seat to Rewthaim on the Au with its affiliation” . Without this being verifiable in detail, one can assume that Au Castle was built by the Wallseeren , who came to Austria with the Habsburgs and tried to build up their own knightly following. In 1492 a Hans belonging to a knight family from Theuerwang is named as the owner. Au is later referred to as the Liechtenstein fiefdom. In 1517 Au was owned by Hans Pinter von der Au from Gmunden. This is replaced by Albrecht Kynast von Tamberg. In 1535 Au was owned by the Raidt. Ulrich Raidt's daughter married Balthasar Wiellinger in 1557 and so Au came to the Wiellinger family, who from then on called themselves “von Au”. In 1571 Au came into the possession of Gotthard von Salburg through purchase. In 1602 the imperial iron treasurer David Seebacher appears as the owner; around 1639 Georg Wilhelm von Fränking is the owner of the now sovereign fief. In 1642 Au came to Johann Fördl, who was led by Emperor Ferdinand III. against payment of 300  fl . was freed from teaching. In 1651 Johann Baptist Kuttner von Kutniz bought the “ancient aristocratic Landgütl Au an der Traun” including the castle keep and the hunt. On May 30, 1653, the abbot of the Lambach Benedictine monastery, Placidus Hieber von Greifenfels , acquired it .

The property, which was used as a resort and hunting lodge, was sold to the clerk of the monastery, Franz Gebhard Hofbauer, because of the effects of the French wars in 1820. In 1824 Franziska Hofbauer sold the castle to Johann Solterer von Mühlwang. Other owners in the following decades were Count Erich von Bentzel Sternau (1878), Count Georg von Kesselstatt (1897), Max August de la Vigne von Erkmannsdorf (1911) and Anna Lise de la Vigne (1943), married Ruttnig. It has been owned by son Johann Ruttnig and his family since 1968.

In 1925 the "German School Home on the Traun" was housed in the castle. The educational home on the Traun ("Traunschulheim") was designed according to the principles of the rural school movement ( Wandervogel ). It was intended to provide ethnic and religious upbringing for young people without being linked to a political party. From 1925 to 1938 a secondary school (ie a grammar school in which the "realities" were particularly emphasized) for boys (and girls) from the age of 10 with the subject Latin at the upper level was run here, which gives access to colleges and universities in Austria and Germany made it possible. The subjects art (music), physical education and handicrafts (also gardening, agriculture; principle of the “ work school ”) were emphasized . The first director was Kurt Picker, from 1928 a Dr. Otto Richard Flatter ( Altona ) entrusted the management. In 1927 it was decided to found a school newspaper ("Der Auer Bote", later also called "From the Chronicle of those of Au"), which should serve the exchange with the "Association for rural school homes of the German youth movement" as well as the cohesion with the parents. At the same time, this school newspaper should be a supplement to the "Bulletin of the Association for Country Schools of the German Youth Movement". About 30 pupils were probably housed in the home.

During the Second World War, a housekeeping school for women from the National Socialist People's Welfare was located here .

Around the castle there is also a variant of the legend of "From the wild hunt and the wild hunter" .

description

Au Castle is located on a rock 20 meters above the Traun at an altitude of 400 m . The main building of the complex is a rectangular three-storey building with small corner turrets and a gable roof. The weak circular wall is built onto the building, continues its walls and encloses a square with an inner courtyard. On the east side is the castle chapel from around 1660, consecrated to Apollonia of Alexandria . The altar in the chapel is by Joachim von Sandrart . There are two farm buildings behind the chapel. They are connected to the castle by a wall into which a postern with a small turret is inserted. An engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674 still shows a bridge that used to lead over a ditch in front of the gate to the castle courtyard. In 1911 this trench was filled in; access still leads through the corresponding stone portal. The castle building has hardly been changed in the last 300 years.

In 2011 a fire destroyed the knight's hall in the castle. According to fire experts, the cause was a build-up of heat in a stove.

literature

  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now. Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
  • 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 .
  • German school home on the Traun (ed.): German school home on Traun, (state conc.) Schloss Au, Roitham Upper Austria. 2nd Edition. Verlag Deutsches Schulheim ad Traun, Roitham 1925.
  • Herbert Erich Baumert, Georg Grüll: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. Volume 2: Innviertel and Alpine Foreland. Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-85030-049-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German school home on the Traun
  2. ^ German school home on the Traun, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Schoissengeier, National Socialist People's Welfare. 1938-1949. Linz: Upper Austrian Provincial Archives 1969 (PDF file; 127 kB)
  4. ↑ Legend of the wild hunt
  5. ↑ Fire destroys the knight's hall in Au Castle

Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 33.2 ″  N , 13 ° 49 ′ 4.9 ″  E