Köppach Castle
The Köppach Castle was a castle in the district of the same name in the Atzbach municipality in the Vöcklabruck district of Upper Austria .
history
Köppach is mentioned for the first time in 1344 as the Schaunberg fief of Ulrich the followers of Cottpach, whereby the place Atzbach (Otespach, Chotebach) was mentioned as early as 1120. The followers were a ministerial family of the Schaunberger. After the Schaunberger's defeat against Duke Albrecht III. the feudal sovereignty over Köppach passed to the Wallseer .
In 1394, Peter the Follower signed a quarter of the palace over to his wife. Köppach Castle came to her husband Wolfgang Jörger in 1551 via Benigna trailers . The Jörger held the Köppach rule until 1638. After the last Jörger named Helmhart, his daughter Anna Magdalena came into the possession of Köppach via hereditary path. From this the property came to her husband Franz Albrecht von Harrach. He sold Köppach to his brother-in-law David Ungnad von Weißenwolff . Köppach also passed to Prince Johann Wilhelm Trautson in 1722 as the marriage property of Josefa Ungnad von Weißenwolff . His daughter Maria was married to Prince Karl Josef Auersperg , and so Köppach came to Auersperg in 1744. Among them, the estate was dismantled in 1756 , that is, the associated Meierhof was sold to citizens, the extensive forests remained near the castle . Countess Josepha von Auersperg followed as the owner in 1754, and in 1888 Karoline, the daughter of Vincent von Auersperg. In 1888 the castle and the property belonging to it came to Johann Nepomuk Fürstenberg and in 1904 to Landgrave Eduard Egon.
The castle was sold to the pharmacist Ottokar Daubrava without the forest ownership. On August 11, 1921, the castle was bought by Johann Kiener from Atzbach. The remaining parts of the once extensive facility (hospital building) are still privately owned today. A pond system still reminds of the demolished castle; The remains of the castle are dug under the meadow next to it.
description
As can be seen in the engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674, the castle stood in an extensive pond. In front of the actual castle there was a two-storey porch with a side wing and a wall built against the pond, which was accessible via a bridge. This building shows a magnificent entrance portal adorned with columns . Another bridge led to the actual castle, a five-storey building with two flattened side towers and surmounted by a pointed tower. Outside the pond there is a meierhof and a chapel building .
On July 25, 1858, the multi-storey castle burned down due to a lightning strike and was then only built in two storeys. After a severe hailstorm in the 1960s, the castle was demolished in 1962, down to the part of the building that was still preserved. The former St. Jakob Palace Chapel , the newly renovated manorial hospital, which is now used as a residential complex, and the former courthouse have been preserved. The Köppacher mausoleum , in whose crypt the castle owners rest, has also been preserved. This mausoleum has a coat of arms above the entrance. The left of the altar there is a relief of marble depicting the resurrection of Christ. The following inscription can be found behind the altar: “The caretaker Franz Blaschek had the chapel painted by Johann Feichtinger from Linz in 1845 and renovated by the painter Stefan Rusche-Wolfsegg in 1948. ” A splendid Renaissance-style ceramic oven came from Köppach Castle to Ennsegg Castle .
Köppach Castle - hospital building
Atzbach's court and prison building
St. Jakob Castle Chapel
Chapel of St. Maria, Auersperg's crypt chapel
Köppach Castle's pond and site
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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 .
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 19.8 ″ N , 13 ° 41 ′ 48.9 ″ E