Grub Castle (Kirchberg ob der Donau)

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Grub Castle after an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

The Grub Castle (Kirchberg) was located in the Grub district of the Kirchberg ob der Donau municipality in the Rohrbach district of Upper Austria (Grub No. 11).

history

A Wulfing de Grube is called on Grub in 1299, Grub remained the ancestral seat of the Gruber until 1338. In 1488 a Marx Katzprenner and in 1585 Hieronymus Schluchs (buried in the parish church of Kirchberg) live here. In 1612, Grub came to Jost Schmidtauer von Oberwallsee as the marriage property of Susanna Schluch . Since the Schmidtau were Protestants , they had to sell their property and leave the country in the course of the Counter Reformation . In 1628 Hans Grill von Altdorf acquired the castle. Half of the reign came to Bartholome Cronpichl as the marriage estate of Maria Anna Grill in 1674, while Susanna Grill and her husband Achaz Tollinger received the other half. Thomas Freiherr von Gartner acquired the rule of Grub in 1720. After his death, Grub was sold to Johann Andreas Steyrer. In 1726 a fire devastated Grub Castle, which was rebuilt in 1754 under Andreas Steyrer.

As a result, a rapid change of ownership led to the ruin of the once mighty castle. The following can now be proven as owners: Freiherr Elias von Unkrechtsberg (1802), Josef Preßler, Johann Prunnberg (1809–1846), then inherited from Emanuel Prunner, Josefa Prunner, married Heindl (1877), the Heindl family (until 1899), Ludwig Zabernigg , Stephanie Röhlich, Michael Auinger (1909), Johann Andraschko (1910), then Grub Castle fell into disrepair.

Schloss Grub today

As can be seen in an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674, Grub Castle was an imposing complex. The probably four-storey mansion, which was covered with a half- hip roof , had a bailey on three sides, which was equipped with round towers and an onion roof at two corners. Another square tower, also covered with an artful onion roof, was the clock tower (chapel tower) built on the side facing the inner courtyard. An artistically designed portal led into the castle. Outside the moat was another wall with arches on one side and a shelter for horses on the other. A gate led through this wall over a bridge to the castle.

Until 1961 there was a ruin in Grub, which was surrounded by a moat. Remnants of the castle were used to build roads. The outbuildings that existed in the 1970s have now also been demolished. Only a remnant of a pond at house number 11 in Grub is reminiscent of the moated castle.

literature

  • 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 .
  • Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria, Volume 1: Mühlviertel . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1962.
  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
  • Christian K. Steingruber : A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual of the fortifications and mansions of Upper Austria . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steingruber, 2013, p. 268.

Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '11 "  N , 13 ° 57' 38.3"  E