Gessenberg Castle

The Gessenberg Castle is located in the town of Waging am See in Traunstein district of Bavaria (Gessenberg 4).

history

A Chonradus de Gozzenberch is mentioned before 1200 among the ministerials of Count Konrad von Plain . In the 13th and 14th centuries, other bearers of this name appear, although the assignment is uncertain. By the end of the 14th century at the latest, there was a Bavarian and a Salzburg line of this family, the Bavarian line being called Gesselberger zu Altenham . For three generations they provided the monastery judges of Baumburg and then became ducal customs officers, district judges and carers . Hans Gessenberger and his brother are mentioned in the Salzburg list of cargo for the country table from 1473, but no longer in 1494. In 1558 the Gessenberger family with the canon Gabriel Gessenberger (donor of the high altar of Rabenden ) goes out .

The independent farm Gessenberg was sold to Jakob Auer von Winkel near Grabenstätt in 1496. This Jacob was called in 1496 for the first time Gössenperg than Salzburgian shear compatriot he first came in 1525 to the country table of the Archbishop Matthäus Lang . The Auer von Winkel zu Gessenberg acquired the title of Freiherr zu Gold von Lamprechting in 1712 with Franz Anton and Franz Rochus von Auer (their mother was a Gold von Lamprechting and her brother was the last of the family). In 1605 the Auer bought the Salzburg knights' fief Gastag from Count Sigmund Lamberg. The Fideikommiss Gessenberg was established from both properties in 1658 . From the middle of the 17th century, Gessenberg was converted into a castle. The last of the Auer was Hieronymus Franz († 1836), President of the City and Regional Court in Salzburg. His sister's family, married to a Baron von Imhof, inherited the Gessenberg castle and chapel as well as Gastag. In 1848 both goods were sold and in 1851 the Gasteig estate was divided. Gessenberg has ceased to be a noble residence since 1853, and since then there have been frequent changes of ownership. In the 1970s the castle served as a retirement home. Major renovation measures were carried out in 1999; today the castle is privately owned and not open to the public.

Castle chapel of St. Mary of the Assumption

Gessenberg Castle today

The castle is a three-storey complex with a half-hipped roof and striking red and white shutters. At the corners there are oriel turrets, each with an onion cap . The building was built over older parts in the 17th century and historicized in 1887 . The castle is provided with a medieval ring moat.

The Marian pilgrimage church of Gessenberg, built in 1664, was part of the castle and is provided with a sermon over the entrance from 1664 , based on the model of the Altöttingen Chapel of Grace . A pilgrimage that has now died out led here, and the image of grace was removed from the church.

literature

Helga Reindel-Schedl: Running on the Salzach. The old Salzburg nursing courts Laufen, Staufeneck, Teisendorf, Tittmoning and Waging. (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 55). Commission for Bavarian History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7696-9940-8 .

Individual evidence

↑ Gessenberg I

Web links

Commons : Schloss Gessenberg - collection of images

Commons : Palace Chapel of St. Mary of the Assumption - Collection of images

47.93018 12.71448 531Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '48.6 " N , 12 ° 42' 52.1" E

[1] Gessenberg I