Mattighofen Castle

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Mattighofen Castle

Mattighofen Castle is a former castle and now a castle in the town of Mattighofen in the Upper Austrian district of Braunau am Inn . The construction goes back at least to the 8th century. Today the building is used for public purposes.

history

The castle, which is located at the northern end of the town square of Mattighofen, was first mentioned in 788 as Matagao . In its place was an Agilolfingian ducal farmyard, which was taken over by the Carolingians as Bavarian dukes after the Agilolfingers were deposed . King Heinrich II donated the castle with the entire Mattiggau to the diocese of Bamberg in 1007 . The building served as accommodation for the carers . In 1400 the area and with it the castle came under the rule of the Kuchler . After their extinction in 1438 it was again owned by the Bavarian dukes. On October 10, 1459 knight Jan Holub was enfeoffed with the castle and the associated jurisdiction. After the Holub became extinct, Count Christoph von Ortenburg , who had married his heir Anna in 1514/15, acquired the castle , which had fallen back to the Bavarian duke, for 4,500 guilders. Their son Joachim had it converted into a Renaissance castle in 1551. The palace building received four corner towers. In the same year a brewery was set up in the castle. Due to some fires and later remodeling, hardly anything reminds of these former construction activities.

Two years after Joachim's death, the Counts of Ortenburg sold the Mattighofen estate in 1602 to the Bavarian dukes for 102,000 guilders. From then on, until the Treaty of Teschen , which brought the Innviertel to Austria, the castle and the rulership were in the hands of Wittelsbach with short interruptions. The Bavarian dukes had the castle and the rule administered by caretakers who held their seat at the castle.

Panorama picture of the Mattighofen market after a copper engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

After Elector Max Emanuel had fled , the palace and the Mattighofen estate fell to the imperial council of Gundacker von Starhemberg in 1710. In 1794 the castle and the grounds belonging to it were sold to the brewer Jakob Haidenthaler, who converted it into a beer brewery. In 1796 the castle was bought back. In 1799 the building was rebuilt in the Italian style, its castle-like character was lost and the building was largely given its current appearance. The corner towers recognizable in Michael Wening's engraving were removed, the trenches were filled in and the drawbridge that had been preserved until then was removed. With the purchase of the Kobernaußerwald in 1868, Mattighofen Castle also came into the possession of the Habsburg family fund , who had it converted into an imperial hunting lodge. The k. k. The tax office was relocated to a house on Stadtplatz (today Stadtplatz No. 13). In addition to the rooms for the owners, the castle also housed the forest administration.

In the 20th century, the owners changed frequently, which was due to the ownership of the Kobernaußerwald. From 1918 to 1938 the war victims' fund was the owner of the castle; during the Nazi era it belonged to the German Reich Forestry and after the end of World War II to the American occupation forces. From 1947 the Austrian Federal Forests were the owners of the castle. In 2007 the city of Mattighofen bought the building.

Mattighofen Castle today

The current appearance of the castle is shaped by the renovations in 1799. The building was given fire walls with pent roofs drawn inwards . The fortifications were removed and the moat was turned into a garden. The entrance portal leads into a square inner courtyard. An annex was built in the west corridor, which today houses the Stadtplatz 1 restaurant . The west facing side was raised by a mezzanine and a horizontal front wall decorated with a serrated frieze. The four oriel towers built by the Ortenburgers have been removed. From the early conversion to a Renaissance castle from 1551, a brick door frame with the double coat of arms of the Ortenburg-Fugger can still be found at the right entrance. Originally this served as access to the inner attic. The inscription on the door frame reads:

" Joachim Grave zv Ortenburg etc. Vrsvla Countess zv Ortenburg pore goggerin Freiin zv Khirchperg vnd Weissenhorn his room MDLI "

Another door frame, which was once in the castle, is now the entrance portal of the Klampfer Chapel in Reitsham near Lochen . According to its inscription, this refers to Count Christoph and his two wives. In addition, a damaged architrave for Count Joachim is walled in in the castle entrance.

In a niche in the entrance there is also a fragment of a Roman tombstone from the 2nd century. It shows a sacrificial servant with an incense box and a grieving genius .

In 2012 the castle became one of the three locations of the Bavarian-Upper Austrian state exhibition "Allied - feuding - related by marriage", which also had other locations in Burg zu Burghausen in Bavaria and Ranshofen Monastery in Braunau am Inn . Even before the state exhibition, consideration was given to moving the city office to the castle and building an event hall. The Mattighofens City Office has been located on the first floor of the palace since June 17, 2013.

literature

  • Stefan Wild: Mattighofen under the Counts of Ortenburg . In: Das Bundwerk - Series of publications by the Innviertler Kulturkreis, Volume 28, Braunau 2013 (pp. 6–16).
  • 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

Commons : Schloss Mattighofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry about Schloss Mattighofen on Burgen-Austria
  2. ↑ Oskar Seitz, Charlotte Seit: With vow and with letter and seal - 2nd part . In: Bad Birnbacher Heimatheft, Volume 16, Bad Birnbach 2006, p. 21.
  3. ^ Stefan Wild: Mattighofen under the Counts of Ortenburg . In: Das Bundwerk - Series of publications by the Innviertler Kulturkreis, Volume 28, 2013, p. 7.
  4. ^ Stefan Wild: Mattighofen under the Counts of Ortenburg . In: Das Bundwerk - Series of publications by the Innviertler Kulturkreis, Volume 28, 2013, p. 7.
  5. ↑ Christian Kieslinger: Territorialization and Imperial Countess Liberty . Diploma thesis of the University of Vienna, Vienna 2001, p. 51.
  6. ^ Stefan Wild: Mattighofen under the Counts of Ortenburg . In: Das Bundwerk - Series of publications by the Innviertler Kulturkreis, Volume 28, 2013, p. 9.
  7. ^ Friedrich Hausmann : Archive of the Counts of Ortenburg - documents of the family and the county of Ortenburg. Volume 1: 1142-1400 . Neustadt an der Aisch 1984, S. XVI.
  8. ↑ a b Schloss Mattighofen , accessed on September 20, 2013.
  9. ↑ Homepage of Franzl's Hof und Landküche ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.franzls.at
  10. ^ Stefan Wild: Mattighofen under the Counts of Ortenburg . In: Das Bundwerk - Series of publications by the Innviertler Kulturkreis, Volume 28, 2013, p. 8 f.
  11. ↑ Braunau am Inn district book . Moserbauer, Mattighofen 1992, p. 250.
  12. ↑ Castle history , accessed on September 20, 2013.
  13. ^ NN: Mattighofener City Office since June 17, 2013 in Mattighofen Castle . Issue No. 2 , Mattighofen 2013, p. 5.

Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '20.2 "  N , 13 ° 9' 0.1"  E