Neuhaus Castle (Geinberg)
The Schloss Neuhaus is in the same district of the municipality Geinberg in District Ried im Innkreis in Upper Austria .
history
The Passau ministerial family of the Geginperger (Geinberger) was resident in Geinberg. Their castle was on the site of today's parish church of Geinberg. The following are known by name from this family: Pernhart (1130), Meginhart I. and Alram, Eticho (1150), Rudolf (1189), and Chunrad I. (1200–1230). The last of this family was Chunrad II.
In 1290 the Ahamer (Aheimer, Ahaimer) appear, also ministerials of the Diocese of Passau , who had their residence in the fortress "Newes Haws" . This castle must have been built between 1262 and 1290. The Ahamers are mentioned for the first time in 1290 in a document from the Ranshofen monastery , but did not stay at Neuhaus continuously. For some time the owners changed. There were nurses employed, Alram Rotten (1330). An important representative of the Ahamer family was George I († 1380), who founded the Geinberg parish in 1359. In 1358 he was nurse to Ried im Innkreis and 1366-1371 nurse to Burghausen . In 1388 Neuhaus passed to Count Erasmus von Aichberg, who was replaced by Christian Ramstorfer in 1392. In 1405 a Veit von Aham was the keeper of the Passau fortress Obernberg . Friedrich der Scherenreiter followed in 1405, Gottfried Raty in 1419 and Kaspar von Ahaim († 1450), district judge of Landsberg, in 1428 . He was followed by Achaz Raumung (1434–1438) and Diepold von Ahaim († 1480), also keepers of Landsberg. In 1449 Duke Ludwig of Bavaria gave Neuhaus to Hanns and Heinrich the Eggern. In the middle of the 15th century the Ahamers were in the ducal Bavarian service. Neuhaus joined the Ahaimer von Wildenau line in 1566. Hans Adam von Ahaim died in Vienna in 1579 .
Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria gave Neuhaus to his chamberlain Hansen von Grebmern in 1585. During this time the castle was converted into a palace. Neuhaus came to the Stangel family in 1588. In 1644 a division took place in which Neuhaus and Hofmark Geinberg came to Johann Ignaz von Ahaim. In 1652 the Ahaimer were raised to the status of imperial barons. In 1694 Neuhaus was bought by Baron Gemel von Fischbach. Neuhaus Castle was conquered in the peasant revolt in 1705.
Neuhaus remained in the possession of the Ahamer family (together with Herbstheim and the Elreching estate ) until the 19th century. The last Ahamer was Josef Matthias Franz Xaver Benedikt Graf von Aham († January 12, 1881), chamberlain to the King of Bavaria.
Count Rambaldi became the new owner by inheritance, but he died before the will was opened. So the property came to Aloisia von Gumpenberg, married to the railway doctor Dr. Großmann in Ergoldsbach . Neuhaus was managed by two of her daughters. Then Neuhaus Castle was bought by the Redemptorist nuns in Ried, and Neuhaus was to become a convent. But this decision was reversed. In 1884 the Neuhaus estate was acquired by the farmer Radlinger from Aspach . In 1889 the property passed to the Amesreither family from Ried, then to the married couple Josef and Rosa Schrefl from Obernberg. The widow Rosa Schrefl opened a bathing establishment based on Pastor Kneipp's cold water healing method. In 1892 Protestant children from Vienna came to Neuhaus for the first time to relax. The son of Rosa Schrefl used the seclusion of the castle for a forging workshop. In 1906 the estate was sold by the daughter of Rosa Schrefl to Countess Vitzthum von Eckstaedt from Neuhofen an der Krems . In 1919 the castle came to the "Board of Trustees of the Jubilee Foundation for Railway Children" and thus became a children's rest home. In 1925 the railroad health insurance fund came as the new owner and in 1930 the association "Free School Children Friends" of the Social Democratic Party. In 1936 the castle was taken over by the state youth welfare office and children were offered recreational stays in Neuhaus through the children's holiday organization of the Fatherland Front . In 1938 Neuhaus Castle came into the possession of the NSV ( National Socialist People's Welfare ) Gauleitung .
In 1945 Neuhaus Castle came to the administration of the Upper Austria state government as a children's home. The “Kinderfreunde” of the Socialist Party of Austria had the right to redress for 20 years and organized recreational stays here between 1945 and 1956 in the summer months. The Schloss Neuhaus facility was also not spared the allegation of child abuse ; the cases had taken place between 1948 and 1993.
A general renovation of the castle took place between 2000 and 2005. Today socio-educational residential groups are housed here. Children live in these for longer periods of time (several months to several years, eight children each) who have been accommodated by the youth welfare service for various reasons (excessive demands, illness or death of their parents, neglect, mistreatment, abuse).
Neuhaus Castle today
The former castle or the current palace is located on a moderately high ridge above a pond. The outer bailey with the tower that can be seen on the engraving of Wening has disappeared, but the main building remained after its renovation in the 16th century. The front building is the former palace and be recognized as such by a abgewalmtes roof. In the back a semicircular tower jumps out of the wall front. The curtain wall is up to sparse remains removed. The fencing that used to extend to the pond below is no longer there. Today the castle is structurally adapted (residential, play and leisure facilities) as a children's home.
View from the north
Inner courtyard of Neuhaus Castle
Passage to the courtyard of Neuhaus Castle
Side wing with tower of Neuhaus Castle
literature
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
- Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home. 3rd edition . Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .
Web links
- State children's home Schloss Neuhaus
- Entry via Neuhaus (Innviertel) on Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Victim protection agency since June 2010 ( Memento of the original from November 9th, 2012 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.
- ^ OÖ-Nachrichten of April 19, 2011 Abuse: Land pays 622,500 euros in compensation
Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 18.8 " N , 13 ° 18 ′ 50.3" E