Ottsdorf Castle
The Ottsdorf Castle , was also called Utzdorf, Ozstorff or Ottstorf a surge in Ottstorf in the church today Wels in the district of Wels-Land .
History of the castle
The first written mention of the property comes from the year 1165 when Ottsdorf was owned by the Kremsmünster Abbey ; Fief holders were the lords of Hinterholz. A Ditmarus von Ottestorf is mentioned as a witness in various documents between 1249 and 1300. Anna von Ottsdorf was abbess of Traunkirchen from 1379 to 1402 . From 1400 the estate appears as a princely fiefdom of the Elpet hay eagle. Around 1386 Ottsdorf came to Hans Puecher (Hanns de Puecher von Oczdorf, judge in Eferding). According to the feudal book of Count Johann von Schauberg, a Dorothea Seusenecker, daughter of Hansen des Puecher zu Ottsdorf, bequeathed two estates and the freeing of Ottsdorf to her husband with the permission of the feudal lord in 1427. The Counts of Schaunberg exercised high jurisdiction over the villages of Schleißheim, Ottsdorf, Blindenmarkt and Dietach in the 16th century .
Between 1451 and 1460 Dorothea Seuseneckerin donated and built a chapel in honor of St. Virgin Mary in the forecourt of Ottsdorf and endowed it with various foundations (so-called eternal benefit ; this ended in 1800, as the then owner, Count Clam, slipped into bankruptcy).
After Walter von Seuseneck, the next owners were Virgil Freytag von Schloss Waldbach , his wife Appolonia Kastnerin and their siblings. In 1473 they sold the estate to Raimund Kastner. This family held Ottsdorf until 1526. Then Laßla Prager and his wife Anna followed. Their son sold the estate to Veit von Zelking in 1545. Nikolaus Kolnpöck bought it from them in 1555. Ottsdorf came to her husband Wolfgang Grienthaler through Ursula Kolnpöckerin von Salaberg in 1615 (coats of arms or tombstones of this family are in the parish church of Schleissheim and in the parish church of Thalheim). In 1764 Ottsdorf and Dietach went to Count Fieger von Hirschberg and then to Gottfried Graf Clam.
In 1696, Ottsdorf Castle was only partially inhabited. In 1799 the castle is said to have been destroyed by fire. The owner named between 1805 and 1814, Dr. Preuer had the lock broken off. The bells and the clock were brought to Dietach Castle , and the stones were used to build a March cellar, a house and a lime kiln. The castle has not existed since 1814.
Ottsdorf Castle today
A bridge used to lead from the tower-like castle to the farm buildings and the Benefiziatsstöckl. An elevation still marks the location of the earlier castle today. You can also see the moat of the former moated castle, which was fed by the Schleissheimer Bach. The former Meierhof is now used for residential purposes, the only reminder of the chapel is a vaulted cellar. In the Benefiziatsstöckl (today Ottstorf 21) a craft business (besenbinder) was housed after the Second World War. A sundial formerly facing the castle dates from the 16th century. The claim that once an underground corridor led from Ottsdorf to Dietach could not be confirmed.
literature
- Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in the Innviertel and Alpine foothills. 1964, Vienna: Birken-Verlag.
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now. 1975, Horn: Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons . ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
- Hans Neubauer: Heimatbuch Thalheim 2 near Wels as the center of the manageable home. 1988, Thalheim near Wels: community.
- Karl Stumpfoll: Heimatbuch Thalheim bei Wels. 1954, Thalheim near Wels: Gemeinde, pp. 121–126.
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 55.5 " N , 14 ° 4 ′ 34.1" E