Bergham Castle

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Bergham Castle before the demolition

The Bergham Castle , also outdoor seating Tisching called, was located in the district of Bergham the municipality Leonding in District Linz-Land .

history

The Berghamer family (Bergheimer, Perkheimer, Perkhaimer) is assumed to give the place and castle its name. However, the location of the original seat of the Berghamers has not been clarified with certainty, as there were other Bergheims in the 12th and 13th centuries and still today (Bergheim Castle in the Ottnang area , which was already derelict in the 15th century: Bergheim Castle in the parish of Feldkirchen near Aschach and Bergheim Castle in the Au in Machland ), all of which were interpreted as ancestral castles of the Berghamers. The name Bergham appears for the first time in an exchange contract between Wilhering Monastery and Gerold von Kürnberg. The document is dated between 1155 and 1161, and the names Ekhartd de bercheim and Wilham der bercheim are named as witnesses in this contract. Berghamer also appear again and again in other documents from Wilhering Abbey, such as Fridericus et Richerus de Percheim (1215-1235), Reycher von Percheim and his son Otto (1301), who owned the monastery for the deceased housewife Benedicta Bequeathing the area of Perg “as Seelgeräth”, or Seyfried der Baerchaimer and his wife Elsbet (1316), who donated a farm in Bergham to the monastery. In the 14th century, the Pergheimers also appear in Ebelsberg , although there is evidence of a patio from 1500. The Pergheim family has been considered extinct since the 16th century.

From the 14th century one can assume a permanent residence in Bergham, which in 1339 is referred to as "daz gesaeze daz Perkhaim". Bergham was then a Schaumburg fiefdom and this year the "honorable man Rudl der Enechl" received it from Count Heinrich as a fiefdom. But it is not known exactly when Bergham Castle (Perchheim, Pergheim) was built. In any case, Bergham's rule has only been attested since the 16th century.

In the 18th century this dominium was called Pergham-Dischingen. In 1760 it was acquired by Johann Georg von Wendheim, and this aristocratic native of Württemberg transferred the name of his home castle (D) Tischingen to Bergham Castle. However, the rule had shrunk to little land and a few associated farms due to indebtedness, foundations and inheritance divisions. Von Wendheim remained the owner until around 1800, and since 1804 "the Hochedl born Mr. Franz von Steinhausen as the owner of the open seat in Tischingen" was named in Bergham. Alois Haßlinger followed as owner. At that time, the castle suffered greatly from the billeted Napoleonic troops. In 1825 the castle came to Josef Sengl, who was replaced by Carl Fieringer in 1836. In 1855, Johann Baptist von Anthoine , who comes from a Lorraine family and is highly respected in the town , bought the Bergham-Tischingen outdoor residence, but had to sell it again in 1860 for financial reasons. Another owner is only known from 1885, namely a Franz Weninger, who emigrated to America before 1890.

Bergham Castle

Then the Bohemian teacher and writer Anton Schott came to the castle. He turned the property into a "jewelery box" with a castle garden, pleasure house, fountain and a water container with many species of fish. At that time there was also a tenant wing at the castle, which had been added by a post-Napoleonic owner and which was demolished after the First World War because it was in disrepair.

After the First World War, Schott sold the property to the engineer Hoffer (or Hoffmann) from the Austro-Hungarian Agricultural Society, who in 1925 sold it to a Major Nössner. This had to auction the property because of over-indebtedness. The castle fell into disrepair from 1920. In 1938 Mathilde Seidl was the owner, who had bought it from Nössner's bankrupt estate. She did not live in the castle, but leased it to the Erler couple, who overcrowded it with tenants. From 1946 the building was owned by Anna Kogler, who lived in an adjoining room under substandard conditions. She bequeathed the castle to her drawing son Karl Stelzer-Bärfall.

The west wall was torn down as early as 1964. The castle, which last had the address Schafferstraße 61, was demolished in 2011, there was no monument protection.

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 .
  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
  • Josef Andreas Kauer: Bergham. In Leondinger Stadtgemeindeblatt, 1977, pp. 11-16.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 57.8 ″  N , 14 ° 13 ′ 44 ″  E