Harrachstal Castle

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Harrachstal N ° 1. Former castle building. 2013

Harrachstal Castle is located in Harrachstal in the community of Weitersfelden in the Freistadt district in Upper Austria .

The castle was built in 1716. The builders were the Counts of Sprinzenstein . They called the castle Sprinzenthal. He was succeeded by Baron Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck in 1729 ; Georg Adam von Hoheneck named the place Sprinzenthal after his son Brixius now Brixenthal. After 1770 the castle came into the possession of Count Ferdinand von Harrach, who renamed it Harrachstal. In 1777 Rosa, a daughter of Count Harrach, married Prince Kinsky . They built near Sandl the Rosenhof Castle . From 1825 to 1896 the Counts Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau were the owners. The management of the estate was now relocated to Rosenhof Castle and Harrachstal Castle was obsolete. Until 1848 it remained the seat of the manorial court. The cadastral community of Harrachstal still reminds of the manorial administration of this area. From 1850, Harrachstal Castle only served as a forester's house.

Harrachstal Castle has been heavily rebuilt or demolished in its current state of preservation (2019). Only the Harrachstal N ° 1 building remained, now an apartment building. The earlier meaning is just hard to see. The staircase inside the house and the remains of the castle park on the Waldaist still give an idea of ​​the former aristocratic residence. Former outbuildings have been preserved around the former castle. These include house N ° 2 Hofmühle, N ° 3 paper factory, N ° 5 brewery, N ° 6 bakery. The old brewery cellars are still well preserved. The Brixius picture from the castle chapel was also preserved. It ended up in the Weitersfelden parish church and is part of the Brixius Altar there.

Picture gallery

  • Brixius picture from the castle chapel

  • Harrachstal N ° 1. Former castle building. 2019

  • Harrachstal N ° 2. Former court mill. 2019

  • Harrachstal N ° 3. Former paper mill. 2019

  • House without N ° between House Harrachstal N ° 3 and 26. 2019

  • Harrachstal N ° 5. Former brewery. 2019

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 .
  • Georg Grüll: Castles and palaces in the Mühlviertel. 2nd edition 1968. Birken Verlag, Vienna. Harrachstal p. 140.
  • Ludwig Riepl (Ed.): Weitersfelden - A local history reader. 1st edition. Blöchl-Verlags- und Druckges mbH., Freistadt / Weitersfelden 1997.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 37.9 "  N , 14 ° 43 ′ 44.3"  E