Gartenau Castle

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View of Gartenau Castle from the northwest

Gartenau Palace stands on the south-western slope of a foothills of the Göll massif in the cadastral community of Taxach . It belongs to the city of Hallein im Tennengau in the state of Salzburg . The facility on Gutrathbergweg is a listed building and has property number 4893. It is not open to the public.

history

According to the first documentary evidence, the area of ​​Gartenau was in the hands of the Lords of Guetrat, who had succeeded the Counts of Plain. In 1286 Kuno von Guetrat allowed the Salzburg cathedral chapter and St. Peter's monastery to run the Almkanal through the Kattenau (= Gartenau).

The roots of the complex go back to the 12th century, but it was not until 1339 that the manor, formerly known as Grafengaden, was first mentioned in a document. After the extinction of Guetrater Gartenau arrived Rudolf Trauner, of 1,397 nurses from Glanegg was. He had a residence built here on free land around 1400 . In 1430 the Laufen ship owner Albrecht Scheller and his wife Wandula, née Valkenstainerin, acquired the residence. From then on they carried the name of the property as a nobility predicate. After two more generations of the Scheller family, the inheritance fell to the Bavarian Aham family in 1518, who sold the estate to Hans Panichner von Wolkersdorf, then a carer in Golling , in 1532 . The son of Hans Panichner of the same name was a Protestant and had to leave the country in 1565. In 1568 he sold his property to Jakob Khuen von Belasi , the brother of the then Salzburg Archbishop Johann Jakob Khuen von Belasi . Under Jakob and his wife Elisabeth von Thanhausen, the residence was fundamentally redesigned in 1570, so the southern wing of the castle dates from that time. Jacob's son Ferdinand died in 1618, the castle was then pledged to Rudolf von Raitenau. In 1626 it came into the hands of Hans Ludwig Ritz . By Emperor Leopold I received Emmeram Friedrich Ritz 1665 to call from Gartenau permission. His heir Esmerina married the baron Ferdinand Paris von Rehlingen, to whom Emmeram Friedrich bequeathed the castle. The inheritance was linked to the condition that Esmerina's and Ferdinand Paris' son had to take the name of Ritz zu Gartenau, but the marriage of the two remained childless, and so Gartenau came to the brother of Ferdinand Paris, Raimund Franz von Rehlingen. In 1704 he donated a Fideikommiss , into which in addition to Gartenau Castle, the other possessions of the von Rehlingen family -  Palais Rehlingen , the Ritzerbogenhaus, Elsenheim Castle and later also Ursprung Castle  - were incorporated.

Nevertheless Gartenau was 1,718 at the Castle Meier sold Christof Heidlauf to inheritance law, the basic rule but remained in Rehlingen. In 1826 this passed to Anselm von Imhof and his wife Walburga, nee Freiin von Auer, and was lifted when the base load was released in 1848. Other owners of Gartenau were Johann Ludwig Götz von Hebenstreit (1775), Johann Georg Geisler (1778), Sebastian Geißler (1806), Christian Hofer (1840), Ignaz Müller (1840) and half of them Elisabeth Müller (1842). Their son Johann Müller sold Gartenau to Eveline Freiin von Hammer-Purgstall in 1848. She and her husband Adolf von Berndt had Gartenau completely renovated in 1848 . Rittmeister von Berndt began to extract cement in Gartenau. In 1864 Gustav Leube acquired the castle and cement works ; both are still owned by his family today. The palace building was last redesigned in 1886, 1908, before 1936 and in the second half of the 20th century.

Building description

The castle originally had the task of securing the holdings of the prince provost of Berchtesgaden and monitoring the salt transport from Schellenberg and Berchtesgaden . The old road therefore led through the outer wall of the castle. There was a gate system in the north and south . Of these, the northern one with a low round tower and pieces of wall with loopholes has been preserved. The gate to the south fell victim to cement mining.

The castle complex rises on a rectangular floor plan and consists of a residential wing in the west, the actual castle wing, and a horseshoe-shaped utility wing with two floors, which houses an inn, stables and the coach house. The coat of arms of the Panichner von Wolkersdorf with the year 1495 is attached above the eastern entrance portal with stone walls , on the upper floor of the southern facade there is a coat of arms of Archbishop Markus Sittikus , which originally comes from the city of Salzburg. Above it, a seated, Baroque Madonna and Child can be seen in a niche . The end of the passage is marked by a wrought-iron grille from the 17th century.

The residential wing of the castle is four-story. It consists of an older part in the south and a younger, northern part from the end of the 18th century, both of which are united under a crested roof. The alliance coat of arms of the Khuen-Belasi and Thannhausen families, whose inscription reminds of the renovation in 1570, is located above the portal leading into the palace. On the southeast corner a slender tower is placed, the former chapels tower, because among them is now a profanierter chapel space. The ground floor and basement have barrel vaults , some with stitch caps , some with belt arches. A spiral staircase leads from the ground floor hall to the upper floor. There are Gothic stone jambs of windows and doors get. Fresco elements - a king's head and female half- length figure - from the 14th century can be seen behind glass . On the second floor there is the chapel room with a Gothic ribbed vault and two windows with walls made of Adnet marble . The top floor has recently been expanded for residential purposes. For this purpose, the hatches under the eaves were widened to form windows.

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  1. ↑ a b Entry about Schloss Gartenau on Burgen-Austria . Accessed November 20, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Schloss Gartenau on burgdaten.de , accessed on November 20.
  3. ^ Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria , 2003, p. 275.

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 20 "  N , 13 ° 2 ′ 47"  E