Engelhof Castle

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Engelhof Castle in Steyr

The Engelhof Castle (also Nunzinger-Schlössl called) is located in the district Ennsdorf in the Statutory Steyr (Haratzmüllerstraße 66-68).

history

The building is documented in the 13th century as a farm on the Ennsleiten or as an estate on the Graben . At the beginning of the 16th century it was owned by the Angels of Wagrain . The name Engelhof is probably derived from this family. From 1543 the owners are almost completely known. From 1543 to 1561 the councilor family Zuvernumb owned the castle, until 1604 their descendants of the Strasser nobles von und zu Gleyss. The present shape of the castle can be traced back to the work from that time. The Engelhof was elevated to a seat of nobility in 1625.

In the 17th century, the owners were Georg Henkel von Donnersmark (1604–1622), then followed: the iron steward and chief chambergrave of the Hungarian mining towns Johann von Wendenstein (candlestick) zu Prandtberg (1622–1629), Ignaz Marienbaum von Homberg (1629–1629) 1659), Paul Panz (1659), Petrus von Aichen (1659), Eisenobmann Gottlieb Schröffl von Mannsberg (1659–1676), Countess Anna Maria Lamberg (1676–1682) and the municipality of Steyr (1682). From 1682 to 1773 the castle belonged to the Jesuits . After the order was abolished, the Engelhof returned to the city of Steyr. The latter sold the building to Josef and Rosa Rienzhofer in 1778, followed by Josef and Anna Rienzhofer in 1790. In 1837 Johann Nutzinger bought it from Rienzhofer's widow. Franziska Schallmann (1849–1859) and Johanna Nutzinger (1859–1880) followed. Then the Engelhof came to Franziska Haas (1880–1887). In 1887 the timber merchant Carl Reder acquired the property, followed by Josef Reder in 1925. The castle is still owned by the Reder-Hrad family today.

Engelhof Palace today

The castle is located in a landscaped park, it is a remarkable Renaissance building . The two wings of the palace frame a two-storey, now covered arcade courtyard. At the corners, square towers jump out of the wall, at the other two there are approaches to small towers. In 1887 the palace was redesigned in a baroque style. The two main structures have steep hipped roofs in the south (three window axes) and in the north (five axes), they are connected by two narrower wings (six or eight window axes).

The outbuilding with a round tower is the oldest part of the ensemble. On the first floor there are late Gothic ribbed vaults. A door frame shows the year 1586, the keystone the number 1587. On the ground floor there is an irregularly vaulted room that may have been used as a chapel earlier.

The castle is surrounded by a park with an enclosure wall; the wrought-iron access gate was designed in neo-baroque forms by Carl Hayböck in 1887/88.

literature

  • Herbert Erich Baumert, Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria, Volume 2: Salzkammergut and Alpine Foreland . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-85030-042-0 .
  • Georg Clam Martinic: Castles and palaces in Austria. Landesverlag in Veritas Verlag, Linz 1991, ISBN 3-85001-679-1 .
  • 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 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 29.7 "  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 53.5"  E