Mühlheim Castle (Upper Austria)
The Mühlheim Castle is located in Castle Street the town of Mühlheim am Inn in District Ried from Upper Austria .
history
Mühlheim Castle was originally a moated castle and ancestral seat of the Mulhamer, who first appeared in documents in 1120. These are likely to have been Ortenburg feudal men. A Macelinus de Mulham, 1130 his son Adelram, 1180 a Bero and shortly afterwards Gottfried and Konrad de Mulham are mentioned in the document book of the St. Nikola Monastery of Passau. A Gebhard von Mulham named in 1297 was the last of his name. Then there is a gap in the Mühlheim chronicle. In 1383 a Wolfgang Trachselhamer (Tragselhaimer) appears as the owner of Mühlheim. From here the castle came to the Thuemayr (also called Thaimer or Taimer) in 1417. This family was in the service of the Passau bishops. The first Taimer was Gandolf, who died in 1424. In 1556 Christoph Taimer was able to acquire the court march (lower jurisdiction) from the Bavarian duke. Gundaker Taimer, who also owned Hagenau Castle and the Hofmark Wippenham, sold the castle to his brother-in-law Sebastian von Haunsperg in 1605.
In 1624 Friedrich von Rhelling (the Rehlinger family comes from Salzburg) inherited the decrepit castle, which he demolished in 1636 and a castle built in its place. In 1693, Carl Franz Anton Graf von Safré, Bavarian field marshal, acquired the palace and Hofmark from the widow of Friedrich von Rhelling. In the 18th century the count families of Erbville, Nothracht and Totti took turns in ownership. In 1804 Baron Johann von Peckenzell Mühlheim bought the awning (Margravine) from Maria Anna de Totti. In the third coalition war in 1805 , the castle was looted by the French troops and set on fire. This castle was a three-storey four-wing building with an inner courtyard.
After this ruin lay fallow for 90 years, it was demolished in 1899 and the current castle was partly built from the material from the previous building that could still be used. The client was Julius Freiherr von Peckenzell, and the builder Anton Danna from Braunau. Peckenzell was married to Franziska Freiin von Aue, sister of Bishop Sigismund von Passau.
In 1919 the Viennese manufacturer Fischer-Pochtler acquired the castle from the Peckenzeller family.
Mühlheim Castle today
So today's castle is the third of this name. It is in the middle of a well-kept park. Two two-storey buildings connected by a gate and another house in the inner courtyard form the ensemble of the castle. The narrow side of the building on the right stands at right angles to the path, from which an open archway spans to the first-mentioned wing. The building on the left side of the garden has an entrance that is accessible via a flight of stairs. The three-axis central projection has a broken gable in the roof height, in the middle of which a stucco cartouche is embedded. This shows the coats of arms of the Peckenzeller and the Freiherrn von Aue (also called Ave or Owe). The coats of arms of the Rehlinger, Jörger , Haunsperger and Totti are placed in the archway . The palace chapel, built in 1645, was moved to residential building 2 in 1924.
Today's castle is privately owned by the Viennese company ISI GmbH and the Finsterer and Sieghart families and was renovated in 1982. It cannot be visited inside.
literature
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
- 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 .
- Herbert Erich Baumert, Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. Volume 2: Innviertel and Alpine Foreland. Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-85030-049-3 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '10.4 " N , 13 ° 13' 10.6" E