Lichtenau Castle (Upper Austria)
The Lichtenau Castle is a castle in Upper Austria and is located in the municipality Lichtenau , about two kilometers northeast of the municipality Haslach in Mühlviertel . A castle was built at the beginning of the 13th century, converted into a castle in the 17th century and burned down in World War II . The castle has been rebuilt since 1965 and is now privately owned.
history
It is believed that the castle was built as a refuge around 1217 and belonged to the Rosenbergers . It was first mentioned in a document in 1293 when the then owner Sifrit der Hugenberger died. Lichtenau was then a fiefdom of the Rosenbergs. After Sifrit his son of the same name followed and later his grandson. In 1399 the castle came to ElisabethAnnger, a widowed Jörger . Her son, Hans Jörger, inherited the castle but did not live there. The castle passed from Bernhard Jörger to the Oeder family before 1426.
Until 1483 the Wallseeers were the feudal lords of the castle, and they enfeoffed Marx Oeder with Lichtenau. By marriage it came into the possession of the Herleinsperger family before 1555, and it remained in their possession until 1624. Around 1594, at the time of the Turkish invasions, the castle was designated as a bulwark for the upper Mühlviertel . Under the Herleinsperger, the castle was rebuilt into a fortified Renaissance castle at the beginning of the 17th century . Elisabeth Herleinsperger married Dietmar Schifer von Dachsberg in 1608, who owned the castle after 1624. In 1661 the castle was given as a dowry to Count Johann Secundus von Sprinzenstein by marriage, and in 1728 again by marriage to Count Philipp von Welsberg . At that time around 150 subjects belonged to the rule .
Georg Fölser, a textile merchant from Haslach, bought the castle in 1831. In 1885 it was used again as a marriage estate and so came to the textile industrialist Heinrich Vonwiller. At the beginning of the 20th century, modifications were made again. After the end of World War II, the castle was occupied by Soviet soldiers, and a fire on September 8, 1945 destroyed parts of the castle. The heavily damaged north and east wing were removed. In 2001 the castle was sold to the family of the Austrian, BA Tibensky. The new owners carried out an extensive renovation and restoration , for which Tibensky was awarded the State Monument Preservation Prize in 2004.
The castle now serves as a second residence and is not open to the public.
In 1970 the Lichtenau Declaration was signed in the Palas of the castle , which contains the attitude of Freemasonry towards the Catholic Church.
construction
The castle is located above the Große Mühl on the southern outskirts of Lichtenau. It is surrounded by a landscaped garden with many old trees. Today's facility consists of several buildings around a trapezoidal courtyard. The entrance wing with the gate in the north is best preserved. The roller holes in the portal point to a former drawbridge , the dry weir ditch was filled in around 1600 when the castle was rebuilt. The castle is entered from the street through a multi-part, wrought-iron gate system that also leads into the park. A simple wall forms the eastern part.
To the south is the almost square, tower-like main building, the Palas . The ground floor houses a renaissance hall with a barbed barrel vault on a mighty central pillar . A fireplace in this room is dated 1556, the door frames are even older. The two upper floors of the main house were largely restored. On the courtyard side, the main house has an arcade . In the west is the chapel , which takes up the entire western front. The chapel, to which a Renaissance portal leads, dates back to around 1600. The ceiling is richly decorated and decorated with rib-like stucco bands .
There is a fountain with a hexagonal basin in the courtyard. The coats of arms of the Oeder and Herleinsperger are attached to the side. The castle courtyard is designed in the Renaissance style.
To the west of the palace is the former Meierhof , which was built in the first quarter of the 17th century.
literature
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces of Upper Austria . 2nd Edition. Wilhelm Ennsthaler, Steyr 1992, ISBN 3850683230 .
Web links
- Lichtenau on burgenkunde.at
- Entry via Lichtenau Castle to Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument Preservation Prize for Building Department of the City of Linz. City of Linz Magistrate, November 5, 2014, accessed on February 26, 2016 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 21 ″ N , 14 ° 2 ′ 11 ″ E