Heuberg Castle

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Heuberg Castle

The Heuberg Castle is located on the sunny side of the Salzach at the hamlet of St. Georgen in Bruck an der Großglocknerstraße in Pinzgau Zell am See district , 7 km east of the town of Zell am See .

history

The castle was built before 1100 by the Counts of Sulzbach and was then called the Hof zu Niederheim. When it was founded by Irmgard von Sulzbach, it was donated to the Berchtesgaden Monastery and became the official seat of the Niederheim provost .

The possessions that belonged to Niederhaim were given with 170 ratings, 37 farms, 29 Hufen, 10 houses, 11 mills and some vineyards. In addition there are considerable forest areas and some salt wells. Part of this property was in Niederheim, another in the Prugg cross dress, another in Taxenbach, mainly in the hamlets of Thannberg and March. Other property was in Embach, Eschenau and Rauris. The rights below, such as B. abundant salt wells, conflicts with the archbishop were inevitable. Efforts were therefore made to secure the monastery and its possessions by the church in order to prevent access from Salzburg. Pope Paschal II., 1099 to 1118, confirmed the ownership of the foundation in 1105 ("allodia vestra villamm scilicet Berthesgadem et Niderhaim", i.e., "Your full property, especially the Berchtesgaden and Niederhaim estate"). At the same time, he placed the Berchtesgaden monastery under his special protection. This is the beginning of the history of the Niederhaim provost, later Heuberg. It becomes the seat of a secular provost from Berchtesgad. Its task is to manage the entire property of the monastery in Pinzgau.

In 1296, for the first time, a document no longer mentions Niederhaim alone, but also a "Heyberch". In a document in 1454 it was written about "Court and Herlikait am Heuperg". In 1474 Peter Renn Amann was on the Heuperg. One of the most famous gentlemen on Heuberg was the provost Georg Stöckl. In 1518 he donated the marble altar to the Church of St. George. Veit Stöckl, who died in 1607, was Amann of the Berchtesgadischen possessions on the Heyperg and left behind a huge fortune of 39,213 guilders for the time. Due to tax evasion that became known at the same time, the amount of 27,000 guilders was confiscated from this estate. In 1699 Eduard Piesser was provost administrator. With his custom, he served wine when contracts were signed into the field of fire of the then host of St. Georgen, Bartl Milthaler. He complained that his business was being curtailed. The authorities still allowed the provost to drink the witness, but no other serving.

In 1669 a fire destroyed the castle, in 1673 it was rebuilt in a somewhat simplified form.

In 1803 the Berchtesgaden Abbey lost its real estate to the Bavarian state through secularization, which sold the castle to Karl von Moll in the same year .

His descendants sold the residence to the Scherer family from Pinzgau in 1849.

In 1900 there was another big fire and the castle had to be renovated again. Schloss Heuberg remained in the possession of the Scherer family for several generations (they nicknamed themselves “those von Heuberg”) before it was sold to the Porsche family (also the owners today) in 1970 .

Heuberg Castle

Building description

The castle is two-story, 28 m long and 17 m wide. A rather simple, two-storey gable building with a mighty crested roof and a protruding round tower. The entrance was designed in the form of a pointed donkey back portal. Above the portal is the coat of arms, made of Untersberg marble , of Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern , Elector of Cologne and Administrator of Berchtesgaden, who had the current building built by 1672. In the northeast corner there are two massive pillars in the basement, very large, representative rooms. The baroque chapel from 1673 is on the second floor. The altar has carved figures by the sculptor Benedikt Faistenberger . The altarpiece of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is by Johann Franz Pereth .

The castle can only be viewed from the outside.

literature

  • Friederike Zaisberger , Walter Schlegel : Castles and palaces in Salzburg - Pongau, Pinzgau, Lungau , Birken-Verlag Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-85030-037-4
  • Maximilian Effenberger: Brucker Heimatbuch . Municipality of Bruck an der Großglocknerstraße (Ed.)
  • Josef Lahnsteiner: Unterpinzgau . Zell am See, Taxenbach, Rauris, self-published, Hollersbach 1960

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Coordinates: 47 ° 17 ′ 29.5 "  N , 12 ° 52 ′ 34.8"  E