Ottensheim Castle
The Ottensheim Castle stands in the town of Ottensheim in Upper Austria .
history
The Ottensheim Castle is a castle of Wilheringer back. In 1148 the brothers Ulrich and Cholo von Wilhering are named as owners.
From 1220 to 1527 the castle was owned by the rulers. The Habsburgs pledged it from 1331 to 1461 to the Lords of Walsee and from 1461 to 1492 to the Liechtensteiners , who already owned the Steyregg Castle, located downstream . As partisans of Matthias Corvinus , Heinrich the Lame and his brother Christoph devastated in a feud against Emperor Friedrich III. in 1476 the suburbs of Linz and in 1477 the Baumgartenberg monastery . Also in 1477 they destroyed the royal castles Edramsberg and Schönering from Ottensheim . After their defeat, the Liechtensteiners lost their pledges without any compensation, including Ottensheim. In 1524, Chancellor Niklas Rabenhaupt von Suche Ottensheim received from King Ferdinand I as a fief . In 1527 he was able to transfer the castle into his free property and had it converted into a palace . From 1529 to 1621 Ottensheim was owned by the Upper Austrian estates.
Emperor Ferdinand II pledged the land above the Enns to the Bavarian Elector Maximilian . This drew Ottensheim to himself and gave it to the Jesuits . After the Jesuit order was abolished in 1773, Ottensheim fell to the imperial court chamber .
The counts of Thun and Hohenstein and the Counts of Coudenhove-Kalergi (from 1863) and Karl Pfeiffer von Weissenegg (1895) were among the numerous owners of the 19th century . The latter had major structural changes made. From 1936 in the possession of the English Wightman family, the castle was confiscated by the German Reich and used as a forestry administration by the Wehrmacht. After the end of the war, the building suffered severe damage from Russian occupation soldiers. According to the State Treaty of 1955, it was returned to the rightful owners. However, they lived in Africa and could hardly take care of the castle, which continued to deteriorate. It was only when Captain Ansell gave it away in 1981 and the new owner sold it to the Wildmoser, Pichler and Schützeneder families in 1988 that a comprehensive restoration could begin. The building, which has been restored today, is privately owned.
investment
The castle stands on a rock ridge that drops steeply to the south to the Danube . The courtyard consists of two terraces and is closed off to the east by the tower wing. The square tower was originally built entirely from rubble stones . During the reconstruction of the castle, the tower was removed up to the first floor and then rebuilt with bricks . The chapel is located on the first floor . There is an extensive park to the north of the facility .
literature
- Stephan Franz Havranek: History of the palace and market Ottensheim. In: Heimatgaue. Volume 7, Linz 1926, pp. 24–40, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
- 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
- Entry via Ottensheim Castle to Burgen-Austria
- Ottensheim Castle at burgenkunde.at.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 48 ″ N , 14 ° 10 ′ 23 ″ E