Hagenberg Castle
The Hagenberg Castle is a listed castle complex in Upper Austria and is located in the village of Hagenberg in the Mühlkreis in the Mühlviertel . The castle was first mentioned around 1370 and changed hands several times. It began to decline in 1928, and in the 1960s it became uninhabitable. From 1983 the castle was renovated by the municipality with the help of the Province of Upper Austria and since 1989 it has housed the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, founded by Bruno Buchberger . As a result, the Hagenberg software park was built around the RISC , which also houses the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Computer Science, Communication and Media. The entire place benefited from the software park and the technical college with additional jobs.
history
In 1370, today's Hagenberg Castle was mentioned as a small castle , at that time as the property of Mr. von Wartberg ob der Aist , Eberhard Stadler. In that year he left the castle to the brothers Eberhard, Hans and Ulrich von Kapellen as free property and took it back as a fief . Albrecht Stadler's daughter married Georg von Zwingenstein around 1406 , so Hagenberg came into the possession of this family. The daughter of the two, Beatrix, married Georg Schießenberger in 1432 . This family kept the castle until 1514 and expanded it into a palace. Around 1514 Hans Schießenberger sold the property to his cousins Hans, Mert and Leo von Hoheneck (also: Hohenegg). In 1610 they built a crypt chapel next to the castle. Eva von Hoheneck married Georg Christoph von Schallenberg in 1615 , and the castle became his property.
In 1672 the castle was sold to Egon Gotthard Maurer von Hohenberg, who had the castle chapel built. When he died 20 years later, the castle went to Johann Adam von Wöber. His daughter Regina married Hofrat Wolf Wilhelm von Blumental. Their son handed the castle over to Augustin Thomas von Wöber in 1754. Augustine had the castle church completed in 1770 , which was elevated to a parish church under Emperor Joseph II . In 1750 there were 238 subjects under the rule of Hagenberg. In 1775 the Counts of Thürheim bought the castle, who also owned the Weinberg Castle . It changed hands again through marriage: Countess Maria Franziska Thürheim married Count Michael Max Althan in 1801 . Their daughter Franziska married Major Friedrich Wilhelm Eckbrecht von Dürckheim in 1862 , who took over the castle in 1867. Under the Dürckheims it got its present appearance: the characteristic tower was placed on the former keep in 1892 , the crypt chapel was demolished in 1900. In 1928 the last owner Count Georg Friedrich Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin died of lung cancer, the castle remained with Countess Sophie Dürckheim. The castle began to decline. On May 28, 1935, due to economic hardship, furniture, firewood, scrap iron, etc. a. auctioned. On June 15, 1936, the district court in Prägarten auctioned off the entire Hagenberg estate (castle and farmyard). The oö. Landes-Hypothekenanstalt bought the property for 217,075 Schilling, a right of residence for the previous owner is not granted. When the National Socialists came to power in 1938, Kommerzialrat Fickl became the new owner of Hagenberg Castle. On December 13, 1938, the Hagenberg estate was purchased for 290,000 Reichsmarks and became the property of Friedrich Botho von Loesch. It comes from an estate in Silesia.
After the Second World War , the Soviet occupying forces occupied the facility and severely affected it. Landowner Lösch, practically destitute, retired to the nearby Meierhof . In the years that followed, the castle served as an emergency shelter for various tenants. The building became more and more neglected, an earthquake caused further damage in 1972, and in the mid-1970s the owner applied for a demolition notice. The castle ruins were then placed under protection by the Federal Monuments Office , and the building was preserved.
In 1983 the Hagenberg town council passed a resolution to save the castle and set a corresponding example with the renovation of the tower roof. In 1985 the castle association was founded and supported the community with the renovation and revitalization. The state of Upper Austria provided monetary aid. This enabled the municipality to lease the castle, which was more of a ruin, for 99 years in 1985. An institute of the Johannes Kepler University in Linz was found as a user . The ruin was renovated and adapted as a technology center, even if numerous historical alterations were removed. In 1988 the Riepl / Moser architectural team was awarded the architecture prize of the state of Upper Austria for their work. In 1989 the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) was opened in the castle and the first university of applied sciences in Upper Austria was opened in nearby Meierhof . Part of the castle serves as a community center.
description
Main castle and outer bailey
The castle lies on a ridge that slopes steeply towards the Visnitz and is a mighty, elongated two-storey building. The medieval castle can still be seen in the third courtyard . Today this courtyard is covered with a glass roof and serves as a lobby. The castle character is determined today by the gate tower and the stump of a round tower . The first-mentioned tower was built at the end of the 19th century and has a wedge roof, which is flanked at each of the four corners by a further small turret with an onion roof . Due to its unmistakable construction, the municipality of Hagenberg now bears the castle tower as a landmark in the municipality's coat of arms. The interior of the castle has been completely modernized, nothing of the former furnishings has been preserved.
To the east, the outer bailey was separated from the main castle by a ditch that was now filled in . The four corners were each reinforced with a round tower. On the first floor of the outer bailey there is an arcade from the 16th century. Due to the demolition of the crypt chapel, the front courtyard is open at the front. The parish church is connected to the south wing as a former castle church. It was built as a Protestant prayer house in 1610 and expanded in 1672 and 1728.
The Hagenberg Software Competence Center is now located in the former Meierhof .
Access to the castle
Overall system
Hagenberg Castle
Entrance portal
Castle chapel
The castle chapel was built around 1672. After the fire of 1728 it was expanded and given a baroque style . The furnishings date from the first half of the 18th century. The canopy high altar with four columns and a group of the Holy Family comes from Johann Mähl from Linz , the side altars show paintings by Bartolomeo Altomonte .
Castle garden
The landscaped garden to the west of the palace was laid out before 1826 and enlarged around 1862. The castle garden is located on a south-facing slope, which makes it possible for exotic species to settle. Therefore, find there, for example, a 130-year-old small-leaved lime , blood and beech trees , oak trees , mountains and maple , locust , Ginkgo Trees , Katsurabäume , hemlock and tulip trees . The park also includes meadows and small ponds.
literature
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces of Upper Austria . 2nd Edition. Wilhelm Ennsthaler, Steyr 1992, ISBN 3850683230 .
- Herbert E. Baumert and Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria . Volume 1: Mühlviertel and Linz. Vienna 1988, pp. 119-120.
Web links
- Entry via Schloss Hagenberg (Mühlviertel) to Burgen-Austria
- Hagenberg on burgenkunde.at
- Pictures of the castle
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the Hagenberg Voluntary Fire Brigade ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ History of the Hagenberg Voluntary Fire Brigade ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ N , 14 ° 30 ′ 54 ″ E