Losensteinleithen Castle
Losensteinleithen Castle (also Losensteinleiten Castle ) is a castle complex in Wolfern in Upper Austria . In the 16th century, the Lords of Losenstein had an existing moated castle from the 15th century converted into a Renaissance castle. At the beginning of the 21st century, a nursing home was housed in the building.
history
The first documentary mention of the estate, formerly known as Leiten, took place in 1323, when a Chunrat der Mair auf der Leiten was mentioned as a witness in a document from Abbot Englschalk of Stift Gleink . This Leiten estate came into the possession of the Losensteiners in 1362 when Niklas Flusshart sold it to Dietrich I von Losenstein. Bernhard I von Losenstein built the late medieval moated castle from 1409 to 1433, to which regional jurisdiction was later transferred. Through his wife, Bernhard I also gained rule over the Lower Austrian Schallaburg and the rule of Gschwendt . Later these possessions were divided among the three sons of Bernhard, and Florian got the rule of Losensteinleiten. Since the family was at home in Losensteinleiten, the ancestral castle in Losenstein increasingly fell into disrepair .
By the sex of Losenstein to directing the former village was directing to its present name Losensteinleiten . Florian von Losenstein, the founder of this line, traveled with Emperor Friedrich to Rome in 1453 for his coronation and was knighted by him on the Tiber Bridge . He was married to Magdalena Auer von Prennberg and left behind a son named Wilhelm when he died in 1462. Wilhelm was Councilor of Emperor Maximilian I . and inherited besides the rule Losensteinleiten also the rule Gibhofen in Bavaria from his mother. He married Barbara von Parsberg in 1476 and had five sons with her, from whom Achaz took over the rule. Achaz and his son Christoph III died in 1527. von Losensteinleiten took over the rule. When a Turkish army under Kassim Pascha made the area unsafe in 1532, the castle also suffered greatly.
Georg Achaz I von Losenstein (1545–1597), a son of Christoph III., Had the moated castle rebuilt in the Renaissance style between 1560 and 1570 and expanded by three wings around 1590. When Georg Achaz I died in 1597, he left behind his wife Christine von Perkheim and a son who was only eight years old. Georg Christoph II. Von Losenstein zu Losensteinleiten (1589–1622) was able to unite the lords of Schallaburg, Weidenholz and Sichtenberg in his hand. He had married Anna von Stubenberg in 1610. When he died early in 1622, his son Georg Wolfgang was still a minor. The Losensteiners were zealous followers of the Lutheran doctrine and kept some court preachers. It was not until 1620 that the Losensteiners revived their Catholic faith. Georg Achaz II, Count and Lord of Losenstein, bought the estate "Mayr zu Laach" in 1627 as guardian of Georg Wolfgang, which was left over from the former noble estate of Hauzenbach.
When Georg Wolfgang died in 1635 as the last of the line from Losenstein to Losensteinleiten, Losensteinleithen Castle went to the Lords of Losenstein zu Gschwendt. After this line had also expired with Franz Anton von Losenstein in 1692, all of the Losensteiner's possessions came to the princes of Auersperg. Little information has survived from the time when the castle was owned by the Auersperg princes. In the 18th century the castle was rebuilt again. The Auersperg people lived in the castle until the 1950s, but the castle fell into disrepair after the destruction of the Second World War .
On June 1, 1955, Losensteinleithen Castle became the property of the Austrian Camillian Order Province . For twenty years there was a small provincial seminary and a private high school with public rights in Losensteinleiten . The school was closed in 1976 and the boarding school in 1978. Since then, the use of the house has caused great problems. The maintenance costs became a great burden for the order. In 1978 it was possible to conclude a rental agreement with the state of Upper Austria, and until 1983 the state government ran an agricultural college for girls in the castle. In 1985 the Linz community returned to Losensteinleiten and set up the St. Kamillus retreat and education center in the monastery. Economic and personnel difficulties finally led to the sale of the castle and the four hectare property.
On September 1, 1997, REWO Residenzen und Wohnheime GmbH of the Plocek family acquired Losensteinleithen Castle and operated the St. Kamillus residential and nursing home based on the Christian-social values of St. Chamomile from Lellis . In 2015 the property developer Georg Spiegelfeld-Schneeburg acquired it , who then put it up for sale again.
building
Losensteinleithen Castle is the largest historical building in the market town. The horseshoe-shaped building encloses an arcade courtyard.
The complex also includes a large garden with a castle pond and the mausoleum 400 meters further north. The palace park used to be in between, but there are no remains of it. The once wide moat around the moated castle has long been filled in, but slight depressions can still be seen in the terrain.
mausoleum
The mausoleum is four hundred meters north of the castle on the edge of a forest. It was built around 1880 as a burial site for the then owner of Losensteinleithen Castle, Karl Wilhelm, 8th Prince of Auersperg . Until then, the Auersperg were buried in the crypt under the Maria Laah parish church. Karl Wilhelm von Auersperg, who died in January 1890, was then buried in the mausoleum. In 1911, under Karl Maria, 9th Prince of Auersperg , the building was given its present form. The mausoleum is located about 300 m west of the castle in the middle of fields and forests. At the time of construction, the area belonged to the castle and was used as a spacious garden. The actual tomb is housed in the basement of the mausoleum. In addition to the stone sarcophagi of Prince Auersperg and his wife, there are also the wooden coffins of his descendants. The beautiful chapel, which is located directly above the prince's stone coffin, is visible from the outside. On both sides of the chapel there are cloisters, on the walls of which the memorial plaques of the members of the Auersperg family buried are attached. The symmetrical basic shape and the simplicity of the mausoleum are clear features of the historicist style in which the building was erected. Although Losensteinleithen Castle was sold in 1953, the grave is still owned by the Auersperg family. The last descendant of the Austrian line died in November 1998 and was buried in the mausoleum. The family crypt for the Bohemian Auersperg line is in Vlašim in Bohemia.
See also
literature
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces of Upper Austria. Wilhelm Ennsthaler, 2nd edition, Steyr 1992, ISBN 3-85068-323-0 .
Web links
- Losensteinleiten Castle. In: burglosenstein.at.
- Bibliography on Losensteinleit (h) en in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Documents Gleink (1088-1762) 1323 VI 24. Abbot Engelschalk and the Convent zu Gleink give the Leibgeding on the Reutpeunten near Teuschenried to Dietmar von Teuschenried and his sons ("Chunrat der mair avf der Leiten" as a witness) in the European monastery archives .net .
- ↑ a b c Losensteinleiten Castle. In: burglosenstein.at. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Entry about Losensteinleit (h) en on Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 56.2 ″ N , 14 ° 21 ′ 32.4 ″ E