Laufenbach Castle

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Laufenbach Castle is a former castle in the village of Laufenbach in the municipality of Taufkirchen an der Pram in Upper Austria .

history

Laufenbach Castle

Around the year 800 the place Laufenbach was first mentioned as Lupuhinespah . In this document, a certain Oudalolf hands over his lands, and with it probably Laufenbach Castle, to the Church of St. Stephen in Passau . In the 12th and 13th centuries the castle was owned by the Lords of Laufenbach , who appear several times in documents from the Vornbach and Reichersberg monasteries . So about 1140 Ascwon von Loifenbach , 1200 Conrad von Laufenbach or 1258 and 1269 Marquard von Laufenbach . After the Lords of Laufenbach died out, the noble estate came into the possession of the Petersheimers around 1380 and then to the Lords of Rasp, of whom 1410 Hanns Rasp zu Lauffenbach is called. At that time the Lords of Rasp also owned the nearby Teufenbach Castle . This was followed by a quick change of ownership:

  • 1500 Valentin and Balthasar Ottenberger
  • 1510 the Ruestorfer
  • 1530 the Püchler
  • 1534 the Rainer (1574 Joachim Rainer is mentioned on Laufenbach )
  • 1600 the Donnerer von Donnersberg
  • 1640 Johann Franz Reittorner von Schöllnach

In 1692 Laufenbach came to Baron Wolfgang Heinrich Gemmel zu Flischbach, district judge of Schärding, together with the noble residences Rainding, Hauzing and Schloss Neuhaus am Inn . From his heirs, the property went to Baron Carl Adam von Freiberg auf Hohenaschau after 1728, and then in 1738 to Count Ferdinand von der Wahl auf Aurolzmünster . The count of the Wahl'sche rule administration in Aurolzmünster finally had the wooden and already dilapidated castle demolished. The Ringweiher was largely drained and the land belonging to it was sold to surrounding farmers.

description

Location of Laufenbach Castle

According to the only surviving view of the castle by Michael Wening , Laufenbach was a two-storey building around 1721, which was surrounded by a circular moat. Access was via a bridge on the north side.

After the castle was completely demolished, a house was built in its place, which still rises above its location today. The only remaining recognizable remnant of Laufenbach Castle is the heavily flattened, but still clearly recognizable semicircular moat that separated the castle hill from the northeastern terrain.

literature

  • Benedikt Pillwein: The Innkreis . In: History, geography and statistics of the Archduchy of Austria ob der Enns and the Duchy of Salzburg . tape 4 . Joh. Christ. Quandt, Linz 1832, p. 420-421 .
  • Johann Ev. Lamprecht: The old parish Taufkirchen an der Bram d. i. the current parishes and communities: Taufkirchen, Rainbach, Dirsbach and Sigharting . Self-published, Schärding 1891, p. 18-19.96-97 .
  • Norbert Grabherr : Historical-topographical manual of the fortifications and mansions of Upper Austria . Vienna 1975, p. 130 .
  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . 1st edition. Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn, S. 133 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lamprecht 1891, p. 18.
  2. ↑ Codex Traditionum antiquissimus Ecclesiae Pataviensis . In:  Upper Austrian document book . Volume 1, No. XXIX. Circa 800, p. 456 (“Ovdalolf” hands over his inheritance “ad Lupuhinespah”).
  3. ^ Lamprecht 1891, p. 19.
  4. ↑ Meingot von Waldeck, provost and archdiacon of Passau, notarised that his nephews waived various rights in favor of the Reichenberg monastery . In:  Upper Austrian document book . Volume 3, No. CCLXX, Reichersberg, 1258, p. 257 (“M. iunior de Lawffenbach” as a witness).
    Heinrich Mörlir gives the Wolgrubing estate to the Reichersberg monastery under certain conditions . In:  Upper Austrian document book . Volume 3, No. CCCXCI, July 9, 1269, p. 366 (“Marquardus de Lawffenbach” as a witness).

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '35 "  N , 13 ° 30' 35"  E