Gstöttenau Castle

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Gstöttenau Castle after an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

The former Gstöttenau Castle was located in the Gstöttenau district of the same name in what is now the municipality of Pupping , in the Eferding district of Upper Austria .

history

Around 1317 a property is documented in Steten ob Everding . Dietmar von Aistersheim is said to have donated it to Wilhering Abbey in 1317 . Originally Gstöttenau belonged to the Schaunbergers , at least it appears under the name Gstöttenau in the Schaunberger Urbar from 1371.

Gstöttenau Castle was probably not built until the Baroque era: in 1742 it is called "a beautiful [...] castle located on a fertile plain and built in the new way". At the end of the 16th century, Gsöttenau was owned by Niklas Glötschl von Gallham (Götschlein von Gallhaimb). After his death, his widow Magdalena Ladaroneria married Siegmund von Sprinzenstein in 1584, who owned half of the property in Gstöttenau . The other half of the castle property was in the hands of her brother-in-law Ernst Ekkehard von Hungersbach . In 1605 Peter Christoph Praunfalk bought the castle from both owners, but in 1620 sold it to Erasmus von Starhemberg († 1648, buried in the Starhemberg crypt in Hellmonsödt ). After the death of his wife, Erasmus married Salome von Jörger in 1632. The property remained with the Starhembergers until 1934.

In 1830 the once extensive castle had already become a ruin. Therefore, around 1884, parts of the ruined castle were demolished, between 1934 and 1936 the castle was removed down to the foundation walls.

Buildings

On the engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674, Gstöttenau Castle was a two- or three-storey building with three corner towers and onion roofs, which were grouped around an inner courtyard. The castle was surrounded by a simple, roughly one-story wall, with farm buildings attached to the inside of the castle. Outside the castle courtyard, there is an ornamental garden with a small observation tower. A meierhof can also be seen here on the other bank of a side branch of the Aschach .

The remains of the building are next to the road from Eferding to Aschach an der Donau in an orchard; a barn located there stands on the still recognizable foundations of the castle. New buildings were built on the grounds of the castle, today only the former Meierhof or the former brewery (now Gasthaus Schickerbauer, Gstöttenau 3) stands. The reinforcement of the corners of the house shows that the building was at risk of flooding.

  • The location of Gstöttenau Castle today

  • Gasthof Schickerbauer, former Meierhof or brewery of Gstöttenau Castle

  • Gasthof Schickerbauer, entrance passage

  • Gasthof Schickerbauer, corner reinforcement

literature

  • Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home. 3rd edition . Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 , p. 130 .
  • Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria . tape 2 : Innviertel and Alpine foothills . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1964, p. oA .
  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 , p. oA .
  • Benedikt Pillwein (Ed.): History, geography and statistics of the Archduchy of Austria above the Enns and the Duchy of Salzburg . With a register, which is also the topographical and genealogical lexicon and the district map. Geographical-historical-statistical detail according to district commissariats. 1st edition. Third part: the Hausruckkreis . Joh. Christ. Quandt, Linz 1830, Gstättenau, Gestöttenau , p. 245  ( Google eBook ). 2nd edition 1843 ( Google Book )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Christoph Iselin : Historical and Geographical General Lexicon . In which [...] finite The description of the kayships, kingdoms, principalities, freyer estates, landscapes, islands, cities, castles, monasteries, castles, seas, lakes, rivers, and so on from now on; … 3. Edition. tape 3 . Brandmüller, 1742, Gstöttenau , p. 923 , col. 1  gst - gua ( Google eBook, full view ).

Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 47.6 "  N , 14 ° 0 ′ 29.2"  E