Kleeberg Castle

Kleeberg Castle
	Kleeberg Castle
Creation time :	1610
Castle type :	Conversion to a castle
Place:	Ruhstorf on the Rott
Geographical location	48 ° 26 '46 " N , 13 ° 18' 31" E Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '46 " N , 13 ° 18' 31" E

Kleeberg Castle in the 18th century (engraving by Michael Wening )

Kleeberg Castle is a castle in Kleeberg , a district of the market in Ruhstorf an der Rott in the district of Passau .

history

A Simon Munster de Cleberg is mentioned in a document as early as 1398, but nothing remains of the medieval castle. In the 16th and 17th centuries ownership changed between the families of the Ruhstorfer and the Auer von Tobel families. The structure that exists today was built in 1610 by Hans Wolf von Ruestorf on Truchtlaching and Poigen. In 1735 the Ruhstorf family died out. The sister of the last Ruhstorfer was married to a Count Fränking . Maximilian Ferdinand von Tauffkirchen-Ybm married the daughter from this marriage and thereby became Hofmark and Schlossherr von Kleeberg.

The Counts of Tauffkirchen remained in the possession of Kleeberg until the second half of the 19th century and had their own mausoleum in the nearby village of Trostling . In 1871 the Tauffkirchen-Kleeberg family died out with Max Joseph in the male line. His widow married Aloysius "Louis" Freiherrn Weiß von Starkenfels in 1877 . Since 1873 his family had lived in the nearby, formerly Countess Jonerschen, Tettenweis estate and castle ; he himself was an important heraldist and genealogist who, together with Johann Kirnbauer von Erzstätt, wrote the Siebmacher - book of arms about the nobility in Upper Austria . Freiherr Weiß von Starkenfels sold Kleeberg in 1881 to the Barons von Moreau, who still own the castle today. The current lord of the castle is Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Moreau, to whom Kleeberg Castle was handed over in 1987 by his uncle Karl Freiherr von Moreau .

Building description

The three-storey mansion has a hipped roof and a turret with a curved hood at each of the four corners . The north-east tower is twice as high as the others and is also crowned by a lantern . Around 1690 the upper floors of the building were decorated with stucco by the Passau court artist Giovanni Pietro Camuzzi .

The ballroom wing adjoins the two-storey old gatehouse. The ballroom was built around 1740, the ceiling and north wall of which is adorned with stucco decoration by Johann Baptist Modler . The focus of the depiction is the triumphal procession of the goddess Venus on her peacock chariot, alongside allegories of the four seasons. As early as 1759, the room was redesigned into a chapel with a Mariahilf altar and side figures by Franz Joseph Ignaz Holzinger . Modler may also be the master of the crucifix and the Tauffkirchen-Gugler marriage coat of arms from 1768 above the portal of the gate building.

literature

Gottfried Schäffer, Gregor Peda: Castles and palaces in the Passau region . Pannonia Verlag, Freilassing 1977, ISBN 3-7897-0060-6 , pp. 4-5.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Kleeberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Gerhard Seibold: Alois Freiherr Weiß von Starkenfels and his family book. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 152, Linz 2007, pp. 303–305 ( PDF on ZOBODAT , accessed on May 7, 2017).

[1] Gerhard Seibold: Alois Freiherr Weiß von Starkenfels and his family book. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 152, Linz 2007, pp. 303–305 ( PDF on ZOBODAT , accessed on May 7, 2017).