Mühlwang Castle
The Castle Mühlwang located in the town of Gmunden in the district of Gmunden of Upper Austria (Linzer Straße 61).
history
This headquarters of the Mühlwanger from Steyr was first mentioned in 1305 with Herbort the Muhlbanger. The Mühlwanger were servants of the local gentlemen . The fiefdom was first awarded by the Wallseer and then by the sovereign. The last Mühlwanger died around 1500. He was succeeded by Wolfgang Zollner. After his death in 1528, the fallen fiefdom fell to the court chamber , with Emperor Ferdinand I lending the property to Hans Hofmann von Grünpichl. In 1576 Jobst Schmidttauer bought the rule of Mühlwang from Barons Friedrich and Ferdinand von Grünpichl . In 1608 Maximilian Hacklberger von Höhenberg auf Weyer was enfeoffed with Mühlwang by Emperor Rudolf II . He sold the castle in 1614 to the Gmundner citizen Leopold Pötsch, whereby Mühlwang temporarily lost his aristocratic freedoms. In 1622 Mühlwang went as a "free heir" to the rent master Raphael Fraunholzer from Steyr. He was followed in 1628 by Benedikt Fasold, Verweser zu Ebensee . In 1646 the property passed to his son Johann Baptist Fasold.
In 1662 Mühlwang was raised again to a "land and liberated noble estate" by Emperor Leopold I. At the same time the privilege was given to build taverns , a brewery , mills and forges . In 1684 Mühlwang was sold to the Salzamtmann Freiherr Georg Ehrenreich von Schifer. In 1695 Johann Emmerich Graf von Seeau bought Mühlwang from the Schifer's son. In 1724 it was sold to Karl Josef Ritter von Frey and by his family in 1817 to Joseph Solterer zu Au. In 1826 the Mühlwang rule comprised 318 resident and 252 overland subjects. The official seat was in Mühlwang Castle. The ownership of the Solter heirs passed to Karl Klusemann in 1868. From 1873 he built a villa in the southern area of the park (which reached the corner of Mühlwangstrasse and Kliemsteinstrasse today) according to the plans of the Viennese architect Hermann Wehrenfenning (Villa Klusemann - today the state music school is housed there). From the heirs of Klusemann, Mühlwang went to Duke Ernst August von Cumberland in 1901 . His descendants separated from Mühlwang in the second half of the 20th century.
The legend of the holy well in Gmunden is entwined around the castle.
Mühlwang Castle today
Under the Grünpichls, Mühlwang was converted from a castle into the current palace in the 16th century . Under Karl Josef von Frey, a front wing with a low roof was added to the west wing of the palace in the 18th century.
Mühlwang is thus a two-wing, three-story building, covered by a hipped mansard roof . The building is divided into different colors by means of brackets and pilaster strips . The right wing has an arcade with a stone central column . It is connected to the Traun side wing by a wall. There is an old stone well in the courtyard.
For a long time there was an inn in the next building (today: Linzerstrasse 59). Today the castle and its outbuildings are privately owned and the buildings are divided into apartments. Mühlwang Castle was also used for tourism, for example it housed a cooking school and a seminar center.
literature
- Herbert Erich Baumert & Georg Grüll : Castles and Palaces in Upper Austria, Volume 2: Salzkammergut and Alpine Foreland . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-85030-042-0 .
- 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
- Entry via Schloss Mühlwang to Burgen-Austria
- Mühlwang Castle on oberoesterreich.at
Individual evidence
- ^ F. Krackowizer: History of the city of Gmunden . tape 1 , p. 130 .
- ↑ Schießer Heinz: Gmundner Villas . S. 93 .
- ^ The holy fountain in Gmunden , accessed on July 20, 2013.
Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '18 " N , 13 ° 48' 17.1" E