Gusterheim Castle

Gusterheim Palace (2018)

The Gusterheim Castle is a castle in the village of Gusterheim in the Styrian municipality of Pöls-Oberkurzheim .

The lock

Entrance to Gusterheim Palace (2018)

Fountain figure at Gusterheim Palace (2018)

Gusterheim Palace is an elongated two-storey building with two small inner courtyards that is privately owned. On the east side there is a tower with a baroque dome . The castle can only be viewed from the outside. Gusterheim Castle is used as the residence and administration building of a large forest enterprise .

history

Until 1698

The Gusterheim Palace was created from a meierhof of Offenburg Castle . The “Gusterhof”, the largest manor in the village, stood here until the 17th century, which was acquired by Appolonia von Landau in 1629 by Christof Viehhauser , the manager of the Teuffenbach family on the Reifenstein . Viehhauser expanded the Meierhof into a noble estate . This noble seat was sold in 1658 by his daughter Esther Viehhauser to Christian Johann Payrlechner , who was allowed to carry the title of nobility "von Lerchenthal". Payrlechner was the administrator of the Strass estate , which belonged to the Eggenberg family .

From then on, Payrlechner referred to the building as “Gusterheim”, whereupon Emperor Leopold I allowed him to call himself “von Lerchtenthal and Gusterheim”. From 1661 to 1663 he organized an expansion and refurbishment of the castle. His widow Catharina Regina Payrlechner sold the castle in 1670 to Baron Franz Ferdinand von Sidenitsch , who united Gusterheim with his two lords, Reifenstein and Offenburg.

1698 to the 20th century

Ferdinand Fürst zu Schwarzenberg acquired all three estates in 1698 - Gusterheim, Reifenstein and Offenburg. From 1706 the castle served as the residence of the respective judge of the Reifenstein district court and in 1792 the Offenburg archive was housed there. Some detention cells were set up for the regional court, and material was taken from the Reifenstein castle ruins, which were already partially in ruins. In 1835 Gusterheim Palace was further renovated.

Since the 20th century

Since the second half of the 20th century belongs Gusterheim of 1947 as a daughter of Heinrich Schwarzenberg , Duke of Krumlov and his wife Eleonore Schwarzenberg, Countess of Stolberg-Stolberg born Elisabeth von Pezold (born Elisabeth Regina von Schwarzenberg ) from the Fraunberger branch of the family, who married the German lawyer Rüdiger von Pezold in 1970 . They had their daughter Anna in May 1971 and Heinrich, Georg Philipp, Felix, Johann and Adam in the following twelve years.

In 1972 Gusterheim Castle was extensively restored.

In 1988 the owner, Elisabeth von Pezold, acquired forests in Zimbabwe , and in 1998 she transferred management to her then 27-year-old son Heinrich von Pezold. As a result, she devoted herself increasingly to the restitution of the Schwarzenberg family's property in the Czech Republic and took on the Czech citizenship and settled in Prague in 1993.

A lawsuit for the return of the Schwarzenberg estate in southern Bohemia, to which among other Hluboka nad Vltavou Castle ( Frauenberg ), the Český Krumlov Castle ( Cesky Krumlov ), the Třeboň Castle ( Trebon ) and the Palais Schwarzenberg in Prague included, has remained far unsuccessfully . Restitutions were only made to Karel Schwarzenberg from the Worliker line.

Web links

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

• Entry via Schloss Gusterheim to Burgen-Austria
• Unknown: Gusterheim Castle. Simple, elongated two-storey building with two small inner courtyards: on the east side a tower with a baroque dome. The castle is decorated with good paintings and beautiful furniture. In: austria-forum.org. Austria-Forum , May 10, 2010, p. 1 , accessed on October 28, 2019 . 
• zenPHOTO, Moon Lover: Pöls. Gusterheim Castle. In: alt-bau-werk.eu. zenPHOTO, Moon Lover, p. 1 , accessed on October 28, 2019 (five photos of Gusterheim Palace). 
• Cornelia Standke: Gusterheim Castle. Country: Austria. In: mobile-geschichte.de. Mobile History , p. 2 , accessed October 28, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas Hein: Gusterheim Castle. Simple elongated two-story building with two small inner courtyards. In: alleburgen.de. Alle Burgen , 2019, p. 2 , accessed on October 28, 2019 .  
2. ^ Franz Leitner: Gusterheim Castle in Pöls. Market town office Pöls-Oberkurzheim. In: freizeitinfo.at. FLManagement , p. 1 , accessed October 28, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Infobel.com: Pezold von- Schloss Gusterheim. Gusterheimer Weg 2. In: infobel.com. Kapitol SA , p. 2 , accessed October 28, 2019 .  
4. ^ Georg Philipp Pezold: Refused rehabilitation. The case of Adolph Schwarzenberg. In: pezoldovarestitution.cz. Georg Philipp Pezold, p. 2 , accessed on October 28, 2019 .  
5. ↑ Renate Graber, Hannes Reichmann: inheritance dispute in the Schwarzenberg house. A wild inheritance dispute about the fabulous wealth of the family in the Czech Republic escalates in the Schwarzenberg family. Elisabeth Pezold, adoptive sister of “Fürst Kary”, wants to disinherit the clan chief by court decision. In: trend.at. trend , Verlagsgruppe NEWS Gesellschaft mbH, October 23, 2002, p. 7 , accessed on October 28, 2019 .  
6. ↑ Editor: Stage victory for Karl Schwarzenberg. First instance decides against disinheritance - family quarrel is prolonged. In: derStandard.at . Der Standard , March 12, 2004, p. 2 , accessed October 28, 2019 .