Berg Castle near Rohrbach
The mountain palace is located in Rohrbach-Berg in Upper Austria (Berggasse 24).
history
The castle hill was the ancestral home of Perger, a passauisches Ministerialengeschlecht . In 1231 a Henricus de monte is named as a witness in a document. 1388 the law on the Perg is mentioned. The Perger remained in the possession of the castle until 1424. An inheritance dispute at the time of Duke Albrecht V with Georg Ruestorfer led to a fiefdom being divided; the half lord Georg Ruestorfer is slain by Wolfgang Perger in 1439 and the Perger got the fief again. In 1534 Christoph Perger, the last of the male line, left the property to his two daughters in equal parts. The elder, Magdalena, married Erasmus von Rödern, the keeper of Weidenholz Castle , in 1520 . The younger daughter Rosina married Hans Lasberger. Berg Castle was of considerable size; Lying on the mountain head, it was protected by two steeply sloping gorges. Remnants of the wall girdle are still present. The sacristan's house to the left of the church is built around an earlier tower of the castle; however, the tower was torn down to the present day roof edge. The back of the house is formed by the old curtain wall.
Erasmus von Rödern began with the construction of a new castle at the foot of the castle hill, for which he had the building material of the old castle largely used. Hans von Rödern († 1636) had the castle enlarged in 1621. In 1626 the castle was captured and looted during the Upper Austrian peasant uprising . During the years of the Thirty Years' War, Count Theodorich von Rödern vowed to build a church for Mary, the Mother of God, if he and his family were spared by the Swedes. In fulfillment of this vow, the Maria Trost pilgrimage church was built in 1655 . After the death of Count Bernhard von Rödern († 1743) the property first fell to his widow; Prince Johann von Lamberg followed in 1751. After a long process, Berg Castle came to the Counts of Stomm and the Barons of Trenk in 1753. In 1767 the Counts of Stomm were the sole owners of the Berg estate. From 1820 the castle was no longer inhabited and fell into disrepair.
In 1825 the already dilapidated castle from Stomm's possession was sold to Karl Mittermayr. He did not take care of the castle either, but ran a rural estate. Other owners were Ignaz Jundwirt (1870), Ludwig Prähofer (1913) and then Karl Grims.
Berg Castle 1674 and today
On the engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674, Berg Castle was an extensive complex at the foot of the Maria-Trost Mountain. The four-storey main building was covered by a hipped roof, the partly crenellated wall was reinforced with several round towers. Above the castle, a garden area, also bordered by a wall, can be seen. A mighty Meierhof is also included in the palace area. A fountain can be seen between the palace and the Meierhof. The old castle can be seen on the top right of the engraving; Today the pilgrimage church Maria Trost is located here .
The farm yard, part of the manor house and a round tower of the surrounding wall have been preserved from Berg Castle. This tower with an archway, which was repaired again in 1963, formed the flank protection of the surrounding walls that meet here. Today you can still see part of a hook-shaped building complex of the former Berg Castle.
Round tower of Berg Castle
Remains of the wall from Berg Castle
Rest of Berg Castle
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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 Upper Austria, Volume 1: Mühlviertel . 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 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 30.7 " N , 13 ° 59 ′ 43.7" E