Bogenhofen Castle
The Bogenhofen Castle is located in the village of Bogenhofen that the municipality of St. Peter am Hart in Upper Austria belongs.
history
Bogenhofen was originally a one-story wooden building. The copper engraving by Michael Wening also suggests a farm rather than a castle. Bogenhofen was sold in 1438 by Hanns Rohrer and his wife Margarethe, née Seiboldsdorf, to the Bavarian Chancellor Andreas Loder . In 1451 the seat of Duke Ludwig von Niederbayern was given "freedom of the court and justice". The son Leonhard Loderer named himself Pogenhofner after the property, the Pogenhofner lived here until 1677. Successors were the Pintzenau (Pienzenau) by inheritance, from whom it passed back to the barons of Nothracht via marriage. It was bought by Baron Franz Xaver von Seiboldsdorf (Seybersdorff), who had the castle rebuilt.
In 1791 it went to Anton Freiherrn Hueber zu Mauern. This was followed in 1828 by Philipp Freiherr von Riesenfels, who exchanged ownership for Haitzing . Then the Bogenhofen property was merged with Hagenau Castle . In 1831 Kajetan and Josephine Plaichinger acquired the property, and under them the construction of a new Empire palace began in 1834 . It was bought by Countess Anna von Geldern in 1842 and Paul Anton von Handel in the same year. After the First World War the property passed to Colonel Freiherr von Pereira and from this until the middle of the 20th century to his wife Baroness Pereira, née Wittgenstein, the sister of the Baron von Handel.
Bogenhofen Castle today
The current building dates from 1834. It was built on the site of the dilapidated moated castle that had stood on the island in the nearby pond. It is a two-storey, rectangular building with a clearly offset central projection, attached triangular gable and a simply broken hipped roof.
The castle and the surrounding area were purchased by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1949 and expanded into a school ( Seminar Schloss Bogenhofen ). This is an educational center of the Protestant Free Churches, which in addition to theological courses and a. offers a state-recognized upper-level secondary school with instrumental lessons and health education and an attached boarding school, in which students from all over the world are taught.
View with pond
Sundial in front of the castle
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View from the park
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 .
- 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 .
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now. Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
Web links
- Entry via Schloss Bogenhofen to Burgen-Austria
- Entry at www.burgenkunde.at
- Homepage of the seminar Schloss Bogenhofen
Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 31.5 ″ N , 13 ° 6 ′ 6.4 ″ E