Leonstein Castle (Upper Austria)

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Leonstein Castle. In the foreground the Steyrtal Strasse and the Steyrtal Cycle Path

Leonstein Castle is a castle complex in the Steyrtal , in Priethal near Leonstein and Obergrünburg , municipality of Grünburg in the Traunviertel of Upper Austria . A state children's home has been housed there since 1945.

history

The castle goes back to a castle stable and building yard built by Wilhelm von Rohr around 1397 . Wilhelm's castle on the Hausberg - at whose foot the castle is located - was built in 1390 by Duke Albrecht III. besieged and destroyed. The later owners from the family of the Zelkingers - Erhard von Zelking acquired the shares in Leonstein in 1447 and 1459 - formed the Feichta valley castle from the castle stable and building yard . The castle and the Leonstein lordship were acquired by Count Georg Siegmund von Salburg in 1629 from the inheritance of the Zelkingers. The people of Salburg rebuilt Feichta in baroque style in 1724 and named it "Neu-Leonstein".

  • Leonstein Castle (Grünburg)

  • Leonstein Castle: front view

  • Entrance portal

  • Leonstein Castle: side wing with tower

  • Leonstein Castle: side wing

At the end of 1919, the Upper Austrian provincial government bought the property from Count Theodor Salburg for 2,000,000 crowns . Count Schmidegg, who had already leased the castle from the Salburgers, stayed at the castle even after the change of ownership. From 1920 Leonstein Castle was a state estate and belonged to the state forest administration. The fermentation cellar of the Leonstein brewery was in the house. In 1938 renovation work and alterations followed. Subsequently, the female labor service of the RAD ( Reich Labor Service ) was housed in it; the Schmidegg couple had already died at this point. From 1944 the Wehrmacht used the building - among other things for training. After the end of the war, the property returned to state ownership. Since November 1945 it has housed a state children's home . The building was last extensively renovated in 2003. A crisis center with modern architecture was built behind the castle from 2012 and opened in 2014.

The courtyard tavern that used to belong to the castle is today's Pension Pfaffeneder, formerly Hotel Grawatsch (Leonsteinerstraße 40).

  • Castle ruins and valley castle (1674)

  • The former farm tavern

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 .
  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ History of Leonstein Castle. Archived from the original on March 13, 2015 ; accessed on October 31, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Franz Staudinger: SKIP- A house for children and young people , article from May 28, 2014, accessed on November 21, 2017
  3. ^ Raimund Ločičnik: The Steyrtal in old views , Ennsthaler Verlag, Steyr 2001. ISBN 3-85068-588-8 , p. 69 (Hotel Grawatsch, Hoftaverne)

Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '28.7 "  N , 14 ° 14' 4.9"  E