Innersee Castle
Schloss Innersee is a renaissance castle in the district of Innersee in the Rottenbach community , which in its current form dates from the early 17th century.
history
Innersee was founded by the servant Hans Innerseer, who was committed to Starhemberg Castle and was first mentioned in 1286. The Innersee Castle itself (formerly also known as the Indersee or Innernsee) was first mentioned in a document in 1301. The Innerseer family remained in possession of the original moated castle until 1595 . Then the last Innerseer Hans Paul had to sell the castle with all goods belonging to the rulership due to economic difficulties. The Frankinger family followed as owners for a few years, but sold to Bartholomäus Freiherr von Dietrichstein as early as 1579. He converted the castle into a palace. In the course of the peasant wars , the castle was captured by the rebellious peasants and burned down in 1626. Christoph von Kher bought the “Brandstatt” from Baron von Dietrichstein and had the castle rebuilt. The engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674 shows a single-story building with a central tower. In 1635 the Fieger bought the restored castle. In 1679 the property came to the Willinger family as marriage property, who united Innersee with the rulership of Hinterndobl . The castle then came to Johann Ludwig von Gabelkoven via hereditary path.
In 1777, the Innersee and its Hinterndobl were sold to Ernst Ignaz Gemberly Ritter von Weidenthal. This Gemberly had been ennobled by Empress Maria Theresa because of his services to the improvement of agriculture. His son Ernst Gemberly von Weidenthal, engineer and kk captain, was with Rosalia, nee. von Meyer zu Lauterbach, married. After his early death in 1795, Rosalia was the sole owner of the lordships of Innersee and Hinterndobl until 1842. The son Ernst Franz Josef remained single, his sister Rosalie Elisabeth married the royal Bavarian postal councilor Josef Maximilian Heyß. Their son Franz Maximilian Heyß inherited from his grandmother Innersee and Hinterndobl. With his wife Karoline, geb. by around, he had ten children. He himself was a member of the Reichsrat in Vienna and the first freely elected mayor of Rottenbach. After his death in 1867, his wife Karoline remained the sole owner until her death in 1895. Josefine Heyß, the daughter of her brother Johann, who lives in Laibach , took in the children who lived in the castle and had no descendants . Josefine married the landowner Adolf von Payrhuber in 1916 and they both took over the property from their aunts Karoline and Anna Heyß in 1917. Her daughter Josefine Payrhuber married Ignaz Sickinger in 1946 and they inherited the estate in 1953. Ignaz Sickinger, like his ancestor, was mayor of Rottenbach (1962–1982). Adolf Sickinger and his wife Hedwig followed as the owners in 1983; today the property belongs to Bernhard and Brigitte Sickinger and their children Kerstin and Anja.
Building history
Innersee was originally a moated castle. A pond on the western side of the castle has been preserved from the moat. On the back and front, this moat was probably filled with material from the castle wings that were destroyed in the fire. On the east side, a dry ditch also indicates a pond that used to exist. During excavation work, mussel shells were also found in the ground east of the castle, which shows a much larger water surface. As can be seen in the engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer, the two-story castle still had a gate tower in the middle of the 17th century. Of this only the portal and the strikingly thick walls in the entrance area are preserved. In the 17th century, a west wing that did not belong to the original castle was added, which is no longer there today.
present
Today, Schloss Innersee appears as an imposing building on the level with an integrated east wing. If you cross the gate hall, you come to an inner courtyard bordered on two sides by the castle and on an inner courtyard. To the north is an old mill that used to belong to the castle. In the middle of the courtyard is a Floriani fountain that was recently built by the owner. The entrance wing has a short arbor on the ground floor and an open arcade in the right wing of the building on the first floor , which is closed by windows in the main wing of the castle. The beautiful renaissance portal stands out at the castle, which shows the coat of arms of the former owner Ernst Ignaz Gemberly von Weidenthal on the left. To the right of it is a sundial with the important dates from 1626, the fire of the castle during the Upper Austrian peasant uprising , and 1990, the start of renovation work by the current castle owners.
An old Meierhof with a farm with 75 yoke belongs to the castle . On the ground floor of the east wing, a “Ritterstüberl” was set up, which was previously (until 2008) available for catering to closed groups. The castle has been extensively renovated through a private initiative. Today the castle is no longer open to the public, but is inhabited by the owner family and only used for private purposes.
literature
- Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home. 1976 (3rd revised edition), Linz: Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .
Web links
- Entry via Schloss Innersee to Burgen-Austria
- Innersee Castle
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '49 " N , 13 ° 41' 35.8" E