Kremsegg Castle

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Kremsegg Castle, residential castle and transverse building

Kremsegg Castle is a castle in the Kremsegg district of the Upper Austrian municipality of Kremsmünster .

history

History of the castle

Kremsegg Castle after Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

From the 13th century the fortified place " Crembseck " served the Kremstal population as a place of refuge, the lord of the castle was the von Roth family. In 1464, when Barbara Rothin married Andreas Grünthaler , the castle became the property of the noble Grünthaler family. Around 1600 there was also the locally historically significant “ Grünthaler's household book ”. The Protestant Grünthalers were forced to leave the country in the course of the Counter Reformation . In 1627 Anton Wolfradt , the abbot of the nearby Kremsmünster Abbey, acquired the property with his manorial rule. The conversion to a castle was almost certainly carried out by Jakob Prandtauer on behalf of his successors .

In 1848 the monastery sold the castle, which saw many changes of ownership in the period that followed.

In 1929 the castle came into the possession of Countess Kinsky . After Therese Kinsky died in 1973, her cousin and adopted son Count Czernin sold the castle to the Lutzky family in 1976. The castle and the associated parks have been extensively restored and restructured. A vehicle museum was set up in the castle, exhibiting cars and motorcycles. In 1996 the sponsoring association Musica Kremsmünster took over the castle and held the first musical instrument exhibition in the same year. The classic car collection was sold to the Oldtimer Museum Kröpfl in Hartberg in Styria .

Musical instrument museum

From 1996 to 2018, Kremsegg Castle housed a museum with a large collection of musical instruments. The basis was formed by over 1200 brass instruments by the trumpeter Franz Xaver Streitwieser, whose wife Katherine financed this collection from family assets ( General Motors ). The collection was in the USA until her death and was relocated to Bavaria and then to Upper Austria in 1996 due to her will. In 2001 Prof. Paul Badura-Skoda made parts of his large piano collection available to the museum as a loan, and in 2007 the horn collection was taken over by Prof. Hans Pizka . Four permanent exhibitions were shown:

  • an extensive collection of brass instruments (rare and historically special wind instruments from all over the world)
  • an outstanding collection of pianos (presentation of playable restored instruments)
  • an exhibition about Franz Schubert , who stayed three times in Kremsmünster during his life
  • an exhibition about Friedrich Gulda , whose estate is archived by the sponsoring association of the “Musica Kremsmünster” museum
  • an exhibition about the composer Johann Nepomuk David as well
  • an exhibition on the Vienna Horn .

architecture

Residential castle

The access path to the gate building of Kremsegg Castle branches off from the Kremsmünster - Bad Hall road. An avenue leads to the castle, which leads in front of a transverse building that stands in front of the actual residential castle. Above the gate is the coat of arms of Abbot Anton Wolfradt , who became Prince Archbishop of Vienna in 1631 . If you walk through the arched gate passage, you come to a small square in front of the castle. In the middle of the square is a fountain with a hunter figure blowing a hunting horn with a dog.

The castle is a two-story, four-wing building. The entrance to the gate is formed by a mighty central risalit , which represents the remainder of a tower demolished in 1803. The transverse structure is connected on the left by a low wall and on the right by a higher wall, the latter leading to a park through a wrought iron gate.

The castle courtyard is designed with arcades , which are glazed on the first floor. There are stairways to these arcades on both sides of the entrance gate. A sundial adorns one side of the square.

  • Kremsegg Castle

  • Entrance gate to Kremsegg Castle

  • Alley to Kremsegg Castle

  • Entrance portal to Kremsegg Castle

  • Inner courtyard of Kremsegg Castle

  • Portal to the park of Kremsegg Castle

  • Fountain figure in Kremsegg Castle

literature

  • Herbert Erich Baumert, Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. Volume 2: Innviertel and Alpine Foreland. Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-85030-049-3 .
  • 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 .

Web links

Commons : Kremsegg Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Music Instrument Museum Schloss Kremsegg in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.

Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 16 ″  N , 14 ° 8 ′ 44 ″  E