Hehenberg Castle

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Hohenberg Castle after an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

The lost moated castle Hehenberg was in the Hehenberg district of the Bad Hall municipality in the Steyr-Land district of Upper Austria .

history

Hehenberg (Hechenerg) appears for the first time in 1270 in a princely land register; at that time the property belonged to the Burgraviato Steyr. In 1289 Otto and Heinrich von Hehenberg are mentioned. A Dietrich von Hehenberg is also mentioned in 1381. In 1383, Duke Albrecht IV of Austria awarded Hehenberg to Erhard Gleisser; his daughter married Hans Paumgartner in 1430. The Forster family owned this rule between 1481 and 1532. He was succeeded by Erasmus von Hackelberg, who had the castle rebuilt in 1532 and appointed his cousin Christoph Huber as the caretaker . In 1590 the property was bought by Nimrod von Kolnpöck. In 1599 (Johann) Jakob von Grienthal acquired Hehenberg. He was followed by Balthasar Kriechbaum and his sons from 1629 to 1680. Then Hehenberg came to Johann Matthias Castner von Siegmundslust , in 1692 Hehenberg was acquired by the Salzburg Archbishop Count Ernst Thun and, together with Achleiten, brought into a Realfideikommiss, which was converted into a Geldfideikommiss in 1762. The castle was demolished in 1785.

The Hehenberg estates were auctioned off in 1816 and passed to Franz Iglseder. In 1819 Franz Plank from Linz acquired the property. Knight Ludwig von Boschan followed in 1880.

Hehenberg Castle today

The site of the castle is covered by a meadow, the remains of a pond are still there. The former tavern is also located there. The other houses are from the time the castle was built.

literature

  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
  • Benedikt Pillwein (Ed.): History, geography and statistics of the Archduchy of Austria on the Enns and the Duchy of Salzburg in five parts. Fifth Part: The Duchy of Salzburg or the Salzburg District . Johann Christ. Quandt, Kastner's soul. Eidam, Linz 1839.
  • Josef Reitinger: The prehistoric and early historical finds in Upper Austria . Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag (publication series of the OÖ. Musealverein, vol. 3), Linz 1968.
  • Harald Tersch: Austrian personal testimonies of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (1400-1650) . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-205-98851-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. Harald Tersch, p. 248.
  2. Josef Reitinger, 1968, p. 34.
  3. Benedikt Pillwein, 1839, p. 267.

Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 10.8 ″  N , 14 ° 12 ′ 3.1 ″  E