Mitterberg Castle
The abandoned Mitterberg Castle was about two kilometers northeast of the municipality of Rüstorf in the Vöcklabruck district of Upper Austria (Mitterberg freight route).
history
The first written mention of Mitterberg comes from 1185, at that time the Lordship of Mitterberg and Windern were transferred to Admont Abbey by the nobleman Gerloch von Viecht . In 1407 Ulrich Payss (Paiß) appeared as the owner of the independent seat in Mitterberg. Mitterberg came to Jörg Paysser through the widow Jörg von Dachsberg in 1434. The Payss' heirs sold the Mitterberg estate to Jakob Utzinger in 1550. In 1558, Georg Spiller Mitterberg, a salt minister from Gmundner, bought it. His successor was his son Georg, keeper of Wildenstein († 1611), followed by his son Hans Georg. The Spiller family sold Mitterberg to Otto Viktor von Frankling in 1617. In 1653 Georg Siegmund von Salburg acquired from the widow Count Herbersdorf Mitterberg for 12,000 guilders . The castle was completely rebuilt under the Salburgs.
Georg Siegmund von Salburg exchanged Mitterberg in 1656 to his wife Sidonia Elisabeth (née Scherffenberg , Schärfenberg) with the addition of 6,000 guilders at Aich Castle near Zellhof . In 1699 Gottfried von Salburg (the son of the aforementioned Sidonia Elisabeth Schärfenberg) proposed Mitterberg to the rule of Puchheim. In 1767 Christoff Ludwig Graf Salburg sold the "land table" goods in Puchheim and Mitterberg to the brothers Johann Nepomuk and Karl von Fuchs. Mitterberg separated from Puchheim around 1800. In 1808, Friedrich Jenny's Schwanenstadt muslin factory was housed in the Meierhof of Mitterberg Palace.
In 1838, the Fuchs family sold the Mitterberg and Puchheim estates to Archduke Maximilian Joseph of Austria-Este . From 1839 Mitterberg Castle was used as an institution for priests, later used until 1939 as a deficient house for clergy.
From 1911 the castle came into the possession of the episcopal ordinariate of Linz.
From 1919 to 1922 it was used as a warrior's home. "Foreign workers" for the Ulbricht widow company were also quartered in the castle. In 1944 Mitterberg was converted into a hostel for refugees from Transylvania. During the Second World War , the Reich Labor Service was also housed here. After that, the palace building was occupied by residential parties.
From 1958 the castle was uninhabited and became increasingly derelict. In 1965 Friedrich W. Assmann bought the entire property at Schloss Mitterberg. Mr. Assmann, owner of Heinrich Ulbricht's widow, tried to renovate the castle from his own resources , but in the end it was demolished.
Mitterberg Castle then and now
The baroque palace built here in 1653 was a mighty four-wing complex that enclosed an inner courtyard. The left and right wings of the two-storey castle flanked the front gate wing with a smooth wall and pointed gables . This had a roof tower with a Passau cross on the pommel. The rear wing used to have a tower protruding from the masonry , but this has long been demolished. The surrounding wall was built on the left wing . A farm yard separated from the castle was to the right of the castle building.
The only thing that remains of the castle is the castle chapel , which was donated to the Upper Austrian Association for Monument Protection in 1997 and has been restored since then .
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 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 16.5 ″ N , 13 ° 48 ′ 42.9 ″ E