Marbach Castle (Ried in der Riedmark)

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South side of Marbach Castle with sundial

Marbach Castle is a privately owned castle in Ried in the Riedmark in the Upper Austrian district of Perg .

description

The castle is three-story and has a rectangular base. In the south-west corner is the palace chapel connected to the building , which Carlo Antonio Carlone and Giovanni Battista Carlone had built between 1686 and 1689. A painting by Johann Michael Rottmayr from 1704 depicts the beheading of St. Catherine . Also on the west side, north of the main wing and the palace chapel, there is a two-storey arbor wing, which opens into a transverse utility wing on the north side. Together with a wall on the east side of the property, the buildings form an inner courtyard with an ornamental garden and two fountains on well-tended lawns.

history

Marbach Castle, engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer , 1674

The first documentary mentions go back to 1145. During this time, Eberhardus de Marpach appeared together with Dietmar von Aist as a documentary witness. The last Marpacher was Ulrich de Marpach, who did not return from the crusade in 1217 . The castle at that time fell to the sovereign. Fiefdoms included Ulrich Lichtenegger, Otto Feuchter (from 1382), Rudolf I von Walsee , Sighart Panhalm (from 1398), Wolfgang von Rohrbach (from 1484), Johann Englhofer and from 1623 to 1873 the St. Florian monastery .

The castle was cremated during the Hussite Wars in the 15th century and later rebuilt as a water festival by the Rohrbachers. From 1706 to 1710 a major renovation took place, during which the castle was given its present form. The facility has been sold several times since 1873 and was then used by the Garsten Prison until 1956 . The use as a field hospital shortly after the end of the Second World War is also documented. From May 17, 1945, it mostly looked after survivors of the Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps .

Today it is privately owned, was thoroughly renovated together with the castle chapel in the 1970s , is still inhabited and therefore usually not open to the public. The grounds belonging to the castle are leased and the farmyard has been closed.

literature

Web links

Commons : Marbach Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Engl : Giovanni Battista Carlone's stucco work in the St. Agidius Church in Vöcklabruck, in the castle chapel in Marbach, in the rectory in Ried in der Riedmark and in the Reichersberg Abbey. In: Arte lombarda. Anno 11, 1966, Volume 2, pp. 149-154.
  2. ^ Marbach Castle at burgenkunde.at, accessed on September 20, 2013.
  3. ^ Rudolf A. Haunschmied, Jan-Ruth Mills, Siegi Witzany-Durda: St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen - Concentration Camp Mauthausen Reconsidered . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7610-5 , pp. 240 .
  4. ^ H. Baumert, Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. Mühlviertel and Linz. Vienna 1988, p. 160.

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 43.7 "  N , 14 ° 30 ′ 37"  E