Parz Castle

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Parz Castle

The castle Plot in the village Plot of the Upper Austrian town of Grieskirchen is a country castle , which was built around the 1515th It is one of the largest castles in the state, is located right next to the much smaller Parz moated castle and was the center of the Upper Austrian State Exhibition in 2010 .

history

Parz Castle after an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

After the Pollheimers had acquired the Tegernbach castle and rule as well as the Grieskirchen market in 1398 , Sigmund Ludwig von Pollheim von Han (n) s Pürchinger bought the Parz rule in 1514 and incorporated it with the Tegernbach rule located about two kilometers to the northeast (from which the name the cadastral Pfleg of Schlüßlberg , the very old castle there is forfeited). Then Sigmund Ludwig von Pollheim had the old castle in Tegernbach demolished with the permission of Emperor Maximilian I and built a three-storey renaissance castle with extensive farm buildings, partly with its demolition material, next to the small moated castle Parz , which was initially called Neu-Tegernbach and which was later named after the village of Parz. Sigmund Ludwig von Pollheim's son of the same name (1531–1598) expanded the castle to its present form and established a spiritual center of Protestantism in Upper Austria.

After the death of the imperial treasurer and imperial court councilor Gundacker von Polheim (1575–1644), who had obtained town charter for Grieskirchen in 1613, Parz Palace was sold. In the period that followed, the Pálffy , Harrach and Verdenberg families owned briefly . In 1651 the castle and the rule of David Count Ungnad von Weissenwolff (1604–1672), a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece , bought. After the extinction of this noble family in 1961, the castle came across Antoinette Altgräfin of Salm-Reifferscheidt (1908-1962) and Karl Friedrich Maria Johann Mensdorff-Pouilly (1894-1981) in 1985 in the possession of Georg Spiegelfeld snow castle , which they restored and revitalized, whereby the 2010 state exhibition was a motivation.

The castle has been owned by the Willy Messerschmitt Foundation since 2010 . The festival and event halls are used for weddings, concerts and the like. Office space is also rented on all floors. In summer open-air events take place in the castle courtyard; the renaissance garden is accessible.

description

South side of the main wing with the oldest exposed frescoes

The castle consists of a three-storey main wing with a tower and two side wings. In 1987 large renaissance frescoes were discovered on the approximately 100 m long south facade. They were made on behalf of the Protestant Sigmund von Pollheim and their theme is the superiority of Protestantism over Catholicism. They were exposed with the support of the Messerschmitt Foundation. The scene of the passage through the Red Sea is the rare type of a denominational picture created as a mural . The Protestant people of God are persecuted by the Pharaoh in the form of the Pope, who is accompanied by hostile Turks and French in addition to the bishop and cardinal.

  • The eastern castle gate

  • Side wing of the courtyard

  • Passage through the Red Sea

literature

  • Gerhard Stenzel: From castle to castle in Austria. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-218-00288-5 , p. 175.
  • 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

Commons : Schloss Parz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reform and Renaissance ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 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. , Folder Upper Austrian State Exhibition 2010 April 28 to November 7, 2010, Parz Castle / Grieskirchen. Country correspondence. Media info. Information about the press conference with Dr. Josef Pühringer,…, on April 21, 2010 on the topic of presentation of the Upper Austria. State exhibition 2010 "Renaissance and Reformation." In: land-oberoesterreich.gv.at (PDF), accessed on November 21, 2019.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at
  2. ↑ a b Municipality of Grieskirchen: Schloss Parz.Retrieved on October 17, 2010.
  3. ^ Benedikt Pillwein (Ed.): History, geography and statistics of the Archduchy of Austria on the Enns and the Duchy of Salzburg . With a register, which is also the topographical and genealogical lexicon and the district map. Geographical-historical-statistical detail according to district commissariats. 1st edition. Third part: the Hausruckkreis . Joh. Christ. Quandt, Linz 1830, Parz district commissioner: Parz and Tegenbach , p. 324 f ( Google eBook ). 2nd edition 1843 ( Google Book )
  4. ^ Historical-topographical register or historical place directory of the state above the Enns. Vienna 1863, p. 40 ( Google eBook, full view ).
  5. ↑ a b c Entry about Parz - land and moated castle on Burgen-Austria . Retrieved October 9, 2010.
  6. ↑ Astrid Lang, Wiebke Windorf (ed.): Blickränder - Borders, thresholds and aesthetic peripheral phenomena in the arts. Lukas Verlag for art and intellectual history, Berlin 2017, p. 105.

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 2.5 ″  N , 13 ° 50 ′ 41.5 ″  E