Grub Castle (Obertraun)
The lock Grub is located on the east side of the Hallstättersee near Obertraun in the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut in district Gmunden of Upper Austria (Obertraun 67, 68). The castle is a listed building .
history
The castle was built in 1522, originally a farmhouse called "Gut in der Grub" was in its place. In 1622 it was owned by the von Eysselsberg family. In 1652 Mathias von Eyselsberg ( market judge in Hallstatt) donates the Trinity altar in St. Michaelskirche. In 1658 Christoph Eyssel von Eysselsberg († 1668) bought the castle. He had a tomb built for himself in the parish church of Hallstatt . In 1704 the castle passed to the "salt administrator and market judge of Hallstatt" Johann Gottfried Etzinger. His son donated the Trinity Column on Hallstatt's market square.
Between 1864 and 1890 Grub came into the possession of the Tsar's ambassador Alexander Tschaffkini; it was through him that the palace was redesigned in a historical style in 1868 and given its romantic appearance.
Successors in the possession were then a Mr. Starke and a Mr. Lettmayr and from 1913 the Kürschner-Schön family. During the Nazi era, this was an accommodation for the National Socialist People's Welfare . Other owners were the Eiselsberg family and now Herbert Handlbauer.
The following legend has grown up around the castle : A wedding party behaved blasphemously on the ice of the frozen Lake Hallstatt, as two counts fought over a girl. The ice burst and the company drowned. A column in Grub Castle commemorates the accident.
Schloss Grub today
The castle is a hook-shaped building with three round towers and a square tower, which was placed in a corner in such a way that it creates a connection between the castle building and the chapel. The round towers have conical roofs, the square tower a pyramid roof. The towers are relatively new, structural additions. The castle has a pointed roof with raised gables on the sides, which have a stucco cap frieze on the side. Overall, the castle looks like a villa, which also corresponds to its earlier use.
The castle is privately owned and can only be viewed from the outside. Access is via the east bank hiking trail of Lake Hallstatt, built in 1986, or by boat from Hallstatt.
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 .
- Herbert Erich Baumert & Georg Grüll : Castles and Palaces in Upper Austria, Volume 2: Salzkammergut and Alpine Foreland . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-85030-042-0 .
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pictures from Grub Castle
- ↑ Schloss Grub, Gmunden District Authority (Obertraun) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Properties of the National Socialist People's Welfare (PDF; 130 kB)
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 43.6 " N , 13 ° 39 ′ 51" E