Gotterau Castle

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Gotterau Castle is a former noble residence in the village of Freindorf near Ansfelden .

history

The first secure mention of the castle can be found in a lease agreement from 1583, but it can be assumed that a building must have been here much earlier. The "Stroblmühle", as the property was called, was owned by the Augustinian Canons' Monastery of St. Florian and was leased by the latter, in this case to the miller Stephan Aufischer and his "legitimate housewife" Ursula. From this contract it also emerges that the provost of St. Florian stayed there occasionally, which probably also led to provost Matthias Gotter requesting Emperor Leopold I to elevate it to a noble seat around 1646 and assigning it the name “Gotterau” .

In 1726 the mill was inherited, the current owner was called Thomas Krug, the Gotterau outdoor area remained the property of the monastery and served as a "recreational stay". On August 28, 1758, the building complex, the mill, the castle and the associated Zehentstadel, were ignited by lightning, the buildings burned down to the foundation walls and had to be rebuilt. In 1802 a fire broke out again, which severely affected the buildings. On July 11, 1837, the 31-year-old owner of the mill in Freindorf, Theresia Krug, married the eight years younger son of Scharmüller, Johann Grillmayr, and both took over the mill, whose residential building was apparently destroyed in a fire in 1842. They now tried to buy the castle building, too, which came in handy for the monastery, as a legal dispute was smoldering with Johann Grillmayr, as two land parcels of the mill were awarded to the monastery in the course of the inclusion of the Franciscan cadastre. In 1845 both parties submitted a request to the Kk Hofkanzlei regarding the sale, the contract was signed on November 26th, 1846, the purchase price of 4,250 guilders was used by the monastery to purchase a piece of land owned by the single owner of the "Wirtshaus zu Freindorf" to build the new Zehentstadel and the "box house" that still exists today.

In 1903, Gottlob Friedrich Lell, who came from Stuttgart, bought the castle and mill in Freindorf and built one of the first colored paper mills in Austria. For a long time, the main customer was the Heinrich Franck and Sons company in Linz. At the time of the economic crisis, the production fell sharply, the "connection" to the German Empire provided for an enormous upswing, so that production was also fully utilized during times of war. After 1945 the company was confiscated as “German property” and was not put back by the American occupying forces until 1955; exports, especially to African countries, ensured a good order situation.

Gottlob Friedrich Lell was a pioneer in the field of mechanization; in addition to the generator, he owned two automobiles as early as 1906, the company was one of the first to be connected to the telephone network in Ansfelden, health insurance and workers' apartments were also standard. The foundation of the Freindorf volunteer fire brigade goes back to him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charter AT-StiASF | StFlorianCanReg | 1659_I_07 - Monasterium.net. Retrieved December 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Josef Fuchshuber: Ansfelden then and now. Ed .: City of Ansfelden. Volume 1, pp. 60-61.
  3. ^ Parish office Ansfelden: Duplicate of the marriage book 1837. P. 4.
  4. ↑ Josef Fuchshuber: Ansfelden then and now. Ed .: City of Ansfelden. Volume 1, pp. 60-61.
  5. ↑ Josef Fuchshuber: Ansfelden then and now. Ed .: City of Ansfelden. Volume 2, pp. 101-102.

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 41.3 "  N , 14 ° 17 ′ 38.4"  E