Radeck Castle

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Today's appearance of the Schloss Radeck complex
Radeck Castle, drawing from 1879
Radeck Castle today
St. John the Baptist Chapel near Radeck Castle
Alliance coat of arms of the Rehlingen devils from approx. 1670 in the Chapel of St. John the Baptist
Coat of arms of Johann Georg von Königsegg, Canon of Salzburg

Radeck Castle , also known as Radegg Castle , is a castle or palace complex in the village of Radeck, which is part of the Salzburg municipality of Bergheim .

history

The von Radeck men first appeared in documents from the 13th century. They belonged to the most important Salzburg ministerial families of the 13th and 14th centuries. The castle was built around 1200. It was the seat of the Radeck Care Court and thus also the local jurisdiction, which is still remembered today by the popular term "Galgenbichl". In 1334 the Radeck Castle was sold to the Archbishopric of Salzburg .

Later Radeck was owned by Hans III. Precl, who had the castle rebuilt and a chapel built next to the castle in 1516. The next owner was the Passau canon Erasmus Hohenfelder. He gave his relative Margarete Saurer the right to live in Radeck for life. On August 18, 1525, several citizens of Salzburg attacked the castle under the leadership of Virgil Hippinger and wreaked havoc. The castle was set on fire on all four sides. Margarete then returned to her home town of St. Georgen im Attergau . She tried in vain to seek compensation from Cardinal Mattäus Lang . Only after a petition to Emperor Charles V did they receive a certain sum of money as compensation after 13 years of litigation. After the peasant wars, Radeck was repaired again and came to Paul Rettinger from Nördlingen , personal physician to the Salzburg administrator, Duke Ernst of Bavaria . His son Martin Herkules Rettinger (from 1569 Bishop of Lavant) sold Radeck to Hieronymus Meitting, city judge in Salzburg. He invested considerable sums in the reconstruction. Since he had taken over financially, he sold the property to his brother-in-law Friedrich von Rehlingen.

In 1670 he had the system largely renewed. Johann Paris Freiherr von Rehlingen sold the palace to the Salzburg canon and court chamber president Franz Anton Graf von Königsegg in 1685 (coat of arms above the door). In 1713, Radegg was sold by Johann Georg von Rehlingen and his sister Ana Eleonora, widowed Countess Fugger, together with the rulership to the Maria Plain Church , which was then owned by the Benedictine University of Salzburg . Even before the university was abolished by the Bavarian occupiers of Salzburg, Radeck was sold to rapidly changing owners in 1808. With the destruction in the Napoleonic Wars , the property began to decline.

In 1854 the farmer Felix Fuchs acquired the castle and the associated Schlossmeiergut. Both are still owned by the Fuchs family (today Moarbauer ). In 1972 the last remains of the castle were removed when the residential building there was converted.

Building description

Of the once mighty complex, only the chapel of St. John the Baptist (consecrated in 1516) and a simple two-storey building with a hipped roof and remains of the gate system. An inscription commemorates the building activities of Johann Paris Freiherr von Rehlingen and his wife Susanna, née Teufl. A stone coat of arms of Johann Georg von Königseck adorns the west facade of today's house. The entire complex is now a listed building .

literature

  • Heinz Dopsch: The place, its masters and the court Bergheim in the Middle Ages (approx. 600 - 1550). In the Bergheim community (ed.), Bergheim. Past and present , pp. 60–93. Bergheim: 2008.
  • Georg Clam Martinic: Castles & Palaces in Austria. Landesverlag, Linz 1991, ISBN 3-85001-679-1 .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 9.9 ″  N , 13 ° 3 ′ 22.1 ″  E