Castle Chamber
The lock chamber is a water lock in Schörfling am Attersee (main road 28) in Upper Austria . The alternative, outdated name of the lake, Kammersee, refers to this castle and thus to the Salzkammergut .
location
Today on a peninsula, originally on an island (with a footbridge to the land) in the northern Attersee , the castle is a massive, rectangular, three-storey building with two low side wings that enclose a courtyard.
history
The first owner was Haidfalk von Chammer in 1165. From 1200 a fortified fortress arose here, which belonged to the county of Schaunberg and became the center of the Attergau as its fiefdom . In 1249 the brothers Gotfrid and Haidfolch de Chamer are named in a document. In the course of the feud between Count Heinrich von Schaunberg and Duke Albrecht III. of Austria , Reinprecht II von Walsee's chamber is conquered for the duke. In 1386 the castle had to be sold to the Habsburgs . Kammer was pledged several times under the Habsburgs, for example to the Geymann , the Wallsee , the Praun or the Polheimers . In 1483, Christoph Jörger was employed as the nurse . In 1488 Tiburtius Sinzendorfer was enfeoffed with a chamber. In 1570 the rule fell back to the Emperor Maximilian II. Chamber was then handed over to Hector Pirschinger for care, from 1576 to 1581 Hans von Hohberg was the imperial administrator here.
In 1581, Emperor Rudolf II sold the rulership of Kammer together with the rulers of Kogl and Frankenburg to the baron Johann Khevenhüller . Khevenhüller was raised to count in 1593 and the united lords became the "Grafschaft Frankenburg". After the temporary occupation of Upper Austria by the Bavarians (1810–1816), the Khevenhüllers sold the dominions of Kogl and Frankenburg, only Kammer remained in their possession.
The next owner was Josef Horvath von Gyorgy (1886), to whom the property was bought by Ida Szent Györy, née Countess Khevenhüller. Financially ruined, the latter sold the castle to the Landes-Hypothekenanstalt in 1904 , which in the same year sold it to Julius Steiner. In 1909 Sophie Gassauer was the owner. In 1925, half of the palace was acquired by the Berlin actress Eleonora von Mendelssohn and her future husband, Rittmeister Emmerich von Jeszenszky, who became the sole owner after the divorce in 1936. Until the beginning of the 1990s, the castle was owned by the Jeszenszky family, who also ran the adjacent Meierhof. At the beginning of the 1990s ownership changed to the former Olympic dressage champion Sissy Max-Theurer , who renovated the ruin of the castle. The community of Schörfling acquired a large part of the palace park to build a public facility.
architecture
The Veste Kammer, originally from the 13th century, was redesigned between 1622 and 1649 into a three-storey lake palace (knight's hall and new palace). Under the direction of the Linz baroque master builder Johann Michael Prunner , two low side wings were placed in front of it, with arcades on the ground floor. The gate construction also dates from this time. In the castle there is a chapel decorated with stucco and consecrated to the Virgin Mary from the 18th century. The staircase from 1748 that leads to the ballroom is also worth mentioning.
The castle is privately owned and can only be visited for official events.
Gustav Klimt and Schloss Kammer
The palace and its surroundings were depicted in numerous paintings by Gustav Klimt at the beginning of the 20th century , for example in 1909/1910 with the 110 × 110 cm oil painting Schloss Kammer am Attersee III , which now hangs in the Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna . Another example is the lime tree avenue leading to the palace, which he depicted in the painting Allee zum Schloss Kammer , one of his famous Attersee pictures.
literature
- Herbert Erich Baumert & Georg Grüll : Castles and Palaces in Upper Austria, Volume 2: Salzkammergut and Alpine Foreland . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-85030-042-0 .
- Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home. 3rd 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 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Entry via chamber on Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 46.1 ″ N , 13 ° 35 ′ 29 ″ E