Oberweis Castle

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Oberweis Castle

The Oberweis castle located in the municipality Laakirchen in district Gmunden of Upper Austria (Oberweis 3). It is privately owned and is generally not open to the public.

history

Oberweis Castle after an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

1383 Oberweis is mentioned for the first time as a fiefdom of Ulrich Aboltinger von Abolting (= Ainwalding) of the dominion Ort . The Aboltingers remain the owners of this knight's fief until 1446, when they are replaced by the Geymanns , who in turn appear in the Wallsee land register. In 1484, Oberweis came to Magdalena Geymann's marriage to her husband Walter Hauser. This was with Oberweis, which had meanwhile become a sovereign fiefdom, by Emperor Friedrich III. enfeoffed. Next, the rulership came to the Greisenegger by inheritance. In 1512 Erasmus Greisenegger sold the castle to Benedikt Pirchinger, who sold it to Wolfgang Jörger in 1514 . In the same year, Oberweis came to Ulrich Perkheimer. In 1519 he left his daughter (married to Michael Weichselpaumer) the castle and property in Oberweis as bridal equipment. In 1566 Oberweis came to Veit Traint by marriage, in 1580 to Michael Weinzierl and in 1610 to Daniel Hofmandl. In 1626 Johann Spindler von Hofegg bought Oberweis and was enfeoffed by the emperor in the same year. Next came in 1671 Ritter von Sparr on loan. In 1695 Baron Karl Quintin Josef von Grienthal († 1724) acquired Oberweis. Due to the remarriage of his widow, Oberweis came to the husband of his daughter Maria Elisabeth Theresia, Baron Johann Georg Emanuel von Hoheneck. In 1799, the Hohenecker family sold Oberweis to Baron Ferdinand von Imsland.

Another owner from 1808 was Alois Haselmayr von Fernstein. His son Alois, k. u. k. Postmaster in Lambach, had Oberweis completely renewed in 1843 and gave the castle its current appearance; He also had the palace park laid out as a landscape park. The garden figures, on the other hand, date from the second half of the 19th century. In 1864 the Linz shipmaster Ignaz Mayr became the owner, followed in 1871 by Anton Haase von Buchstein, in 1890 by Lieutenant Hans Ohn, and in 1910 by Gustav and Maria Clemm. After 1911, Oberweis was owned by the Weller family. In 1911, Oberweis was redesigned by Bruno Heisig, the city architect of Gmunden. The pond with an artificial island was created in 1966.

During the Second World War , the "Alpenland" home of the Nazi organization Lebensborn was housed in Oberweis Castle. The house was bought on April 9, 1938. At first, Lebensborn wanted to sell the castle again because it was in very bad condition. Since this did not succeed, a home was set up here from 1943 under the direction of Maria Knipp-Merkel. The equipment for this (room furnishings, sanitary facilities, books) was provided by the Gestapo from stolen Jewish property. The home was primarily used to "Germanize" Polish children, children from the Banat and southern Styria . There was also evidence that there were three children from Lidice , whose parents were murdered in the National Socialists' act of revenge.

Until 1960 Rittmeister was a. D. Karl Weller owner of the castle. Then it came to Josef Swoboda. Karosserie- und Kabinenbau GmbH Carvatech has been based here since 2003 ; the owners use the castle as a residential complex. The facility is also one of the venues for the Salzkammergut Festival Weeks in Gmunden.

description

The castle is a three-storey, hook-shaped building with a hipped roof in the middle of a well-tended park. The front side faces the pond. The building is decorated with a continuous ledge. A block wall plaster is applied on the ground floor. A balcony facing the garden rests on two stone pillars.

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 .
  • Eva Berger : Historic gardens of Austria: Upper Austria, Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Carinthia, Styria, Tyrol Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930 . tape 2 . Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-205-99352-0 .
  • Georg Clam Martinic: Castles and palaces in Austria. Landesverlag in Veritas Verlag, Linz 1991, ISBN 3-85001-679-1 .
  • 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 . 3. Edition. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Oberweis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eva Berger, Historical Gardens of Austria, p. 172.
  2. ↑ DER LEBENSBORN eV (PDF; 52 kB)
  3. ↑ Volker Koop: "Give the Führer a child". The SS Organization Lebensborn eV Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2007, p. 113f., ISBN 978-3-41221606-1 .
  4. ↑ Salzkammergut Festival Weeks Gmunden

Coordinates: 47 ° 57 ′ 15.9 ″  N , 13 ° 49 ′ 8.5 ″  E