Kriechbaum Castle

Kriechbaum Castle on an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

The Castle Kriechbaum was in the same district of the municipality of Allerheiligen im Mühlkreis in the district Perg of Upper Austria (Kriechbaum 1).

history

The castle was a fief given by the chaplains . 1315 Kriechbaum is designated as the seat of Heinrich Öder. The Öder was also owned by Schwertberg Castle and stayed on Kriechbaum until it died out. He was succeeded by the Walch von Prandegg , with a Wolfgang Walch listed in the Liechtenstein fief book in 1513 . In 1534 the castle came to the Hohenecker family. A Valentin von Hoheneck can be traced here in 1600. His daughter Sarah Sophia brought the property into her marriage to Gotthard von Tattenbach in 1611 as a marriage property ; they had the castle rebuilt in 1621. In 1631 it came to Hanns Hä (a) ndl von Breitenbruck , in 1636 Count Heinrich von Starhemberg acquired the castle. In 1690 the castle was deleted from the country table and bequeathed to the owner of the farm yard, Jakob Klinger. Since then, Kriechbaum has been a farm. In the yard was also a dispensing justice , the Mayr room served as an inn.

Buildings

As can be seen in the engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674, the castle consisted of a two-storey mansion that was covered with a hipped roof and from which two tall chimneys protruded. This was connected to the farm yard by a wall with a courtyard entrance. A picket fence surrounded the property, including an orchard.

Around 1976, von Kriechbaum still states that the manor house has its original wrought-iron window baskets. Inside, most of the rooms are vaulted. But since 1965 the property had been badly run down and the roof partially collapsed. Conservation measures have no longer been initiated. The complex has been completely removed since 1991 at the latest, and a historically significant building in Upper Austria has disappeared again.

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  Kriechbaum Castle in 1965

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  Kriechbaum Castle in 1991

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 .
• Christian K. Steingruber : A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual by Norbert Grabherr . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz 2019.

Web links

• Kriechbaum on burgenkunde.at

Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 36.5 "  N , 14 ° 37 ′ 29.9"  E