Mühllacken Castle
The Castle Mühllacken located in the district of Bad Mühllacken the town of Feldkirchen an der Donau in District Urfahr environment of Upper Austria (Bad Mühllacken 55).
history
The castle in Mühllacken was a noble seat, which was used exclusively for bathing for noble guests. According to a sales calculation from 1526, it consisted of "the castle building and the bath".
Legend has it that the discovery of the so-called Bruno spring goes back to a squire named Bruno of Count Siegmund von Schaunberg , who returned terminally ill and exhausted from the exertions of a crusade in 1364 and was healed by the spring water in the Pesenbachtal . At the beginning of the 16th century, the healing properties of spring water were already recognized. Linking the bathing business with an aristocratic estate goes back to the Schmidtauer von Oberwallsee . Jobst Schmidtauer the Younger exchanged subjects with Hans Albrecht Artstetter von Rottenegg to round off his property. In a document dated January 2, 1607 one finds the reference that the source rises on a wooden ground and rock belonging to the Landshaag rule, which according to inheritance law "is owned from here" and that there was also a permit for bathing "... The healing water has been allowed under the above date. ”The“ holy Bründl ”, from which the water was led into the bath, is half an hour away from the castle.
Johann Georg Peisser vonwerteau acquired the castle in 1712; At that time the property consisted of two floors (houses), one of which was used for bathing and spa operations and the other, the so-called church floor, contained a chapel with a sacristy and also served as an apartment for the owners. Mühllacken Castle and Pesenbach Castle were then part of the property complex of the Mühldorf estates and came to Wilhering Abbey on March 3, 1747 , where they remained until 1857. In 1936, after several intermediate owners, Mühllacken came to the Congregation of the Sisters of Mary of Karmel in Linz . They renovated the buildings and set up a spa based on the teachings of Pastor Sebastian Kneipp . In 1937 spa guests from Linz could already be looked after. The sisters also opened a kindergarten and gave handicraft lessons. During the Second World War the Kurhaus was confiscated and occupied with seriously ill patients who were looked after by the sisters. After the end of the war, the sisters converted the hospital into an old people's home. In 1948 the spa business with water applications was resumed.
- Mühllacken Castle
Mühllacken Castle: Kneipp spa house
Mühllacken Castle: traditional Kneipp garden
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Mühllacken Castle today
The main building is a four-storey building with a hipped roof and tower, covered with an onion helmet and a lantern. The castle has a baroque tower from the period after 1705, other components are much older. The chapel in the southwest corner was built in 1974.
Today the traditional Kneipp house of the Sisters of Mary Bad Mühllacken is housed here. The Bad Mühllacken herb garden is well worth seeing next to the castle .
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 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Castle Kneipp-Kurhaus Bad Mühllacken on Burgenkunde.at
- Kneipp spa center Bad Mühllacken
- Bad Mühllacken on Handwerksstrasse.at
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '55.6 " N , 14 ° 3' 50.7" E