Imolkam Castle

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Imolkam Castle after a copper engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

The lost Imolkam Castle (also called Imolkhamb or Imlkam ) was located southeast of the municipality of Polling in the Innkreis in the Braunau am Inn district of Upper Austria .

history

Imolkam was first mentioned as Imelchain in 1240 . The Counts of Imolkam died out around 1400. The Riederer families as well as Wolf Siegmund Puechleitner and his son Johann Wolf are listed as other owners. The latter was electoral chamberlain and high princely Passau councilor. Johann Adam Siegmund Puechleitner is still known, who was a Bavarian regimental councilor and Mautner in Burghausen . In the 18th century the castle belonged to the Counts of Aham. In 1796, Wilhelm Ziegler was named as the owner, followed by M. Kastner. Then the castle went to Baron Johann Wilhelm von Lützelburg, who still owned the property in 1848.

Situation then and now

According to a copper engraving by Michael Wening from 1721, Imolkam was a two-story building with a cripple hipped roof that stood in a surrounding pond. A simple bridge led to the castle portal. In addition, the castle was protected by a plank fence, outside of which a farm can be seen.

The moated castle was demolished after 1830 and the material used for the G. Raschhofer inn in Aspach . The location is said to have been in the castle meadow . No specific references can be made to the location itself, possibly the castle was at the Schusterauer estate, as a conspicuous island can be seen there in the Franziszeischen cadastre .

literature

  • Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria, Volume 2: Innviertel and Alpine foothills . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1964.
  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
  • Josef Reitinger: The prehistoric and early historical finds in Upper Austria (=  series of publications of the Upper Austrian Museum Association . Volume 3 ). Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House, Linz 1968.
  • Christian K. Steingruber : A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual of the fortifications and mansions of Upper Austria . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Reitinger, 1968, p. 339.
  2. ↑ Christian K. Steingruber , 2013, p. 42.