Hüttenstein Castle

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Hüttenstein Castle

The Hüttenstein castle stands on the corresponding Krotensee in Winkl in the town of St. Gilgen , between the Lake Wolfgang and Mondsee .

history

Hüttenstein Castle with Krotensee

Originally the area belonged to the rule of Hüttenstein Castle , not far north on the Schaflingerhöhe. In the course of the 16th century, the seat of its own nursing court was established in Hüttenstein and in 1565 a separate building was built for the nursing judge . This nursing court comprised the present-day communities of St. Gilgen and Strobl as well as Fuschl am See administered. A report from 1577 already reported that poorly installed eaves caused damage and could endanger the roof. As early as 1608 it was said that the lap was uninhabited. In 1614 a cost estimate was made, which then doubled when it was realized. Damage after a severe flood also had to be repaired in 1657. In 1672 an archive was set up.

The nurses lived here until 1703 , when the nursing court was moved to St. Gilgen. In 1747 the castle was a brick house with four rooms, two chambers, a kitchen, a cellar and the prison. At that time the castle was inhabited by a woodworker. In 1747 Johann Elias Geyer suggested that the palace, which was useless for defensive purposes, be given to the court chamber, which then happened. In 1794, the court chamber asked to be allowed to demolish the castle and to use the stones for a new hammer mill in Abersee , which happened. The rest of the building was auctioned off to the wood master Johann Radauer in 1811.

In 1817 the Bavarian field marshal Prince Karl Philipp von Wrede (1797–1871) bought Hüttenstein, followed in 1838 by Karl Theodor von Wrede , who began to rebuild and rebuild Hüttenstein in the neo-Gothic style in 1843 and under which it received its present form. In 1880 Franziska Princess Liechtenstein, née Chalupetzky, bought the castle. She was followed in 1884 by Demeter Ritter von Frank, General Director of the Romanian National Bank . Other owners were Dr. Edmund von Frank (1908), Thea Urban-Emmerich, née Morawitz (1917), Huogo Carl and Hans Edgar Urban-Emmerich (1938), Hugo Carl Urban-Emmerich (1948), Katharina Wünschek-Dreher (1951) and Robert Wimmer ( 1982).

Hüttenstein Castle today

Access gate to Hüttenstein Castle

The ruinous substance of the building was rebuilt in a romanticizing way in neo-Gothic forms in 1843 . Four octagonal corner turrets were attached, one storey higher than the main building. The building has five by three window axes. A 1.5 m wide risalit was built in front of the northeast entrance side . Polygonal bay windows were erected on the narrow sides. The main floor has pointed arch windows, the arch part is decorated by a flat ashlar. The ground floor and first floor are separated from each other by a cornice with multiple grooves . The main cornice has a historicizing, multi-tiered pinnacle wreath. Inside, the old central corridor division of the previous building has been preserved; there are stitch cap vaults on the first and second floors .

To the north of the main building is a two-storey outbuilding with a simple facade decor from the mid-19th century. This was once used as a carriage remise or as servants apartment.

Hüttenstein Castle is not open to the public; it is owned by a private foundation, along with the Krotensee lake next to it. The entrance gate to the property refers to the castle owner Robert Wimmer with the large initials R W.

To the south lies the Schlossmayr , the old Meierhof . Together, the sub-assembly comprises 4 addresses and around a dozen buildings as the Hüttenstein location .

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Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 54 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 12 ″  E