Goldegg Castle (Salzburg)

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Goldegg
South facade

South facade

Creation time : 12th century
Castle type : Hillside castle
Conservation status: in operation (museum, cultural center)
Standing position : prince archbishop and kk nursing court (1640–1854)
Place: Goldegg in Pongau
Geographical location 47 ° 19 ′ 9 ″  N , 13 ° 6 ′ 1 ″  E Coordinates: 47 ° 19 ′ 9 ″  N , 13 ° 6 ′ 1 ″  E
Height: 822  m
Goldegg Castle (State of Salzburg)
Goldegg Castle
Parish church and Goldegg Castle in Pongau, 2009

The Goldegg Castle is located on a promontory on the north shore of Lake Goldegg in the town of Goldegg in St. Johann im Pongau District in the state of Salzburg in Austria .

history

The time when the first castle was built is unclear. The Lords of Goldegg , a powerful family of ministers in and outside of Salzburg, can be considered as builders . These have been called von Pongau since the 12th century and after an early lost castle since the end of the 12th century. In 1314 both Ludwig IV. The Bavarian (1314-1347) and Friedrich the Beautiful (1314-1330) were elected King of Germany. In the following disputes for the royal throne, Wulfing I von Goldegg fought on the side of Ludwig. After the Battle of Mühldorf (1322), the Archbishop of Salzburg, Friedrich III , who was fighting on the side of Friedrich, had von Leibnitz (1315–1338) destroy the castles in Altenhof and Taxenbach. Due to Ludwig's victory, however, the Archbishop of Salzburg had to allow the Lords of Goldegg to rebuild the castle. Construction of the new castle began in 1323 and was completed at the same time as the church. Goldegg was the seat of a Hofmark and served as a fortification to protect the connecting road between Pongau and Pinzgau . The core of the structures that still exist today go back to this castle.

Haug von Goldegg died on September 19, 1400 as the last of his family. Two years earlier, he had sold a large part of his property to Archbishop Gregor Schenk von Osterwitz . He bequeathed Goldegg Castle, Hofmark Wagrain and forests in Rauris to his daughter Dorothea. Further down the line, Dorothea died in 1438, the castle passed to her only son Wolfgang von Freundsberg, who died childless in 1449. Due to inheritance disputes with the Salzburg archbishops, the castle was occupied by the troops of Archbishop Friedrich IV . Wolfgang's relatives in Tyrol were too weak to oppose this. They ceded their property claims to the favorites of Duke Siegmund of Tyrol , the notorious Gradner brothers, known for their excessive purchases of property . In 1450 the archbishop had to enfeoff the brothers with the inheritance of the Goldeggers. However, he granted a right of first refusal. The enemies of the Gradners overthrew the same in Tyrol in 1455, Ulrich von Freundsberg, the father of the later notorious mercenary leader Georg von Freundsberg , received the castle back. Archbishop Sigismund I von Volkersdorf did not give in, however, and he finally took over the castle by buying it in the same year. The castle was subsequently administered by Salzburg keepers and captains. In 1463, Captain Ulrich Dienstl successfully defended the castle during a week-long siege by rebel farmers who had to give way to an archiepiscopal army. Thereupon the sovereign made his brother Balthasar von Weißpriach the caretaker of Goldegg. In 1481, the Archbishop of Salzburg, Bernhard II von Rohr (1466–1482), sold it during his war against Emperor Friedrich III. Due to financial difficulties, the castle to his keeper in Radstadt, Willhelm Graf and his moneylender Konrad Strochner, albeit with the right to repurchase. At that time, some additions and alterations to the castle were probably carried out, including enlarged windows, the defensive structures and the corner turrets.

The Graf family had already acquired the name of the extinct von Schernberg family as a nobility title in 1370. Christoph Graf von Schernberg, married to Elisabeth, a relative of Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach , successfully defended the city of Radstadt , loyal to the bishop, in the Peasants' War in 1526. In the following year, Archbishop Mathäus Lang gave him Goldegg Castle with maintenance and land registry office for his services - among other things, Count had advanced 3000 guilders to the bishop for the war chest. Then began the conversion into a habitable castle from the 16th century. A new wing was built between the towers, creating a closed inner courtyard. The knight's hall on the 2nd floor was furnished with magnificently painted wall paneling . The previously medieval wall cladding was replaced by a cassette cladding.

Painting Adoration of the Magi in Goldegg in the knight's hall. In the foreground the Adoration of the Magi , in the background Goldegg with castle and church and houses on Lake Goldegg is the oldest representation of the place from the 16th century. The ownership structure is in dispute and has been clarified in court since 2010.

In 1612, after the death of the indebted Christoph Graf the boy, the complex was withdrawn as a fallen fief from Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau (1587–1612). The armament was brought to the nearby Hohenwerfen Castle and the right to care for Baron Dietrich Khuen von Belasy was granted for life. At that time the castle was already beginning to deteriorate. Dietrich Kuen died in 1635. The Hofmark Goldegg and the Landpflegegericht St. Veit are merged in 1640 to form the Nursing Court Goldegg . Another keeper of the Hofmark Goldegg and the nursing court Sankt Veit was Konrad Graf von Schernberg. His wife, Maria Barbara geb. Ritz von Grub is shown in an oil painting from 1650 in the knight's hall of the castle. In the following centuries, the castle remained the seat of the caretaker and received praise from various visitors. B. 1764 by the Steward and chamber Fourier Franz Anton Gilowsky of Urazowa, then in 1796 by the travel writer Lawrence Huebner or 1798 by the Canon Frederick of Spaur.

In 1821 the castle became a kk rent office building; the bailiff's house was converted into a criminal court by adding prison cells. In 1838 a new staircase and a new nursing home were built. Ignaz von Kürsinger was the nurse at Goldegg from June 16 to December 29, 1834; he too wrote an enthusiastic report on the knight's hall of the palace for the Salzburg official and intelligence gazette. Until 1854 the castle remained the seat of the Salzburg nursing court clerk. In 1859 Count Max O'Donell, who was best known for his involvement in preventing an assassination attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph, bought the castle from the Imperial and Royal Chamber of Commerce and gave it its current appearance through a thorough restoration. However, it was still not inhabited and sold to Hubert Max Friedrich Graf von Galen in 1874 . He and his wife Therese Countess von Bocholtz-Asseburg had moved from Westphalia to Salzburg as Catholics as a result of the Los-von-Rom movement that was ruling in Prussia . After 1938 the building was used as a warehouse for the Reich Labor Service (RAD) for girls. From 1949 onwards, the Archdiocese of Salzburg set up a youth center and a retreat house. In 1959, Margarete Countess von Galen sold the building to the Archdiocese of Salzburg. The castle has been owned by the Goldegg community since 1973.

Inner courtyard of Goldegg Castle

After a thorough renovation for the second Salzburg state exhibition Reformation, Emigration - Protestants in Salzburg in 1981, it has meanwhile become an important cultural and educational center in the Pongau. This is where the Pongau local history museum is located today , a seminar and cultural center, the heart of which is the cultural association SCHLOSS GOLDEGG , founded in 1982 and which organizes the Goldegger Dialogues , as well as a painting academy and a café.

literature

Web links

Commons : Schloss Goldegg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (perhaps the Golleg castle site near Eschenau im Pinzgau , Zell am See district)
  2. ^ Robert Redtenbacher: Goldegg: Heirs want paintings from Rittersaal Krone.at, December 19, 2010
  3. ↑ The Three Kings in Goldegg salzburg wiki