Seeburg Castle (Seekirchen)

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Seeburg Castle from the southeast
Seeburg Castle from the northwest
Pencil drawing by Anton Paul Heilmann

Seeburg Castle is located in the Seewalchen cadastral community in the town of Seekirchen am Wallersee in the state of Salzburg . It dates from the 15th century and consists of a four-story main building, the Chapel of St. Rupert , as well as a defensive wall with four round corner towers. The building complex served as the administrative seat and country residence of nobles. Today it houses the private university Schloss Seeburg .

history

The first lords of Seeburg were in the service of the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg standing bailiffs , in this case, administrator of the land register office (land and property administration and tithe supervision ).

In 1429 an Ulrich von Dachsberg zu Seeburg is mentioned in old chronicles , who came from Aspach in the Innviertel (at that time the Duchy of Bavaria ). He was probably the builder of the castle. The Seeburg was probably built before 1426 in place of an older fortification. Ulrich's sons, Wilhelm and Heinrich, had a share in the Seeburg and named themselves after it (document dated July 25, 1465).
In 1483 Heinrich von Dachsberg was appointed court marshal as the highest administrative officer at the prince-archbishop's court and administrator of the land registry offices Thalgau and Tann for life.
In 1508 Heinrich's son, Bernhard von Dachsberg, took over the land registry offices and became master of the Seeburg. He became known primarily through the protracted quarrels about competence and hunting rights with Virgil Graf von Überacker, the keeper of Altentann and Lichtentann (seat at Sighartstein Castle ), which lasted from 1508 to 1525. There was even a legend about it:

“The Dachsberger had killed a deer against the law and ordered his servants:“ In the devil's name dig your skin so that no one will know! ”However, it did not remain hidden. It got to the point between the two that one of them sought the other's life in an unheard-of way. Virgil von Überacker had a heavy iron ring made with long tips on the inside. He wanted to let the Dachsberger post it when he got hold of it and then throw the key into the Wallersee . The Dachsberger had a dungeon built at Seeburg Castle, which was provided with iron spikes. He wanted to throw Virgil von Überacker into this and let her starve to death. Fortunately it never got that far, because neither could catch the other. "

In fact, there are letters in the archives ( Bavarian Main State Archives in Munich and Salzburg State Archives ) in which both opponents threw insults at each other and accused each other of rape and murder. The followers of the two parties to the dispute also waged a gang war among themselves. The victims were the defenseless peasants of the two parties who had to foot the bill. The only contemporary painting (beginning of the 16th century, Salzburg State Archives, graphic collection) shows a group of brawlers armed with clubs, which are laboriously separated from the elegantly dressed and spurred Überacker. Two centuries later, the Überacker family had paintings made, such as the "Riding out of Virgils IV. Überacker with a cornet and 12 standard bearers" and the alleged "Hunting iniquity of Bernhard von Dachsberg". In the middle of this picture the terrible neck ring is depicted (both oil paintings first half of the 18th century, anonymous, private property). The feud of the stubborn officials was transfigured as a hunting dispute and lives on as a legend to this day.

In 1535 Heinrich von Dachsberg and in 1565 Dietrich von Dachsberg took over the land registry (both were sons of Bernhard). Since Dietrich died childless in 1569, the Dachsberger family died out with him.
In 1569, Dietrich's sister Elise Wolf married Adam von Haunsperg. Both took over office and residence in the Seeburg. They were followed by their son Neidhard von Haunsperg and his son Christoph.

Around 1600 the Haunsperger land registry was dissolved and the land and land administration was transferred to the Sighartstein nursing court . Seeburg Castle subsequently became the summer residence or family seat of foreign counts.
In 1605 Juliane von Haunsperg married the Salzburg chamberlain , guard captain and keeper of Golling , Levin von Mortaigne. He became a baron in 1623 , but died on April 27, 1626 in the Thirty Years' War .
In 1626 Levin's son, Johann Dietrich von Mortaigne, became lord of the castle.
In 1647 Adam Gottlieb Freiherr von Pranckh , whose family came from Styria , bought the castle.

In 1752 Ernst Maria Friedrich von Lodron , nurse at Neuhaus, and his wife Countess Antonia von Arco bought Seeburg Castle (price 22,000 guilders). A complete renovation of the castle in the Rococo style followed . The castle chapel in particular was generously expanded and redesigned (1752–1755). The high altar painting depicting Saints Friedrich and Rupert and the ceiling painting (death of Saint Rupert) are by the Italian master Gennaro Basile . Count Lodron may have brought him to Seekirchen especially, since no other works by this painter are known in Salzburg.
1779: Son of Hieronimus, Count of Lodron. He was a sponsor of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Michael Haydn (at that time the cathedral music director of Salzburg). Probably the most glamorous time of Seeburg Castle, among others Mozart was a guest at the castle as a musician.

In 1825 the Seeburg was auctioned because Count Lodron lost his property in the Napoleonic Wars. The ennobled tropical fruit dealer and army supplier Dismas von Wiederwald acquired the Seeburg.
In 1849 Laurenz Ibertsberger, Mathias Bayrhammer's nephew, acquired Seeburg Castle. Mathias Bayrhammer, a son of the Jogl farmer in Fischtaging , had become one of the richest citizens in Salzburg. He died childless in 1845 and in his will he had a richly endowed poor foundation for Seekirchen. In the following years, Seeburg Castle was thoroughly rebuilt. In 1850 the Seeburg was raised by one floor. The building material for this was obtained by lowering the curtain walls. From 1850 onwards, 30 beneficiaries (seniors with poor parishes ) could live in the Seeburg.

1940–1945 Seat of the Hitler Youth (so-called Reichsbann )
From 1943, the market and rural communities of Seekirchen each owned half of Seeburg Castle.
From 1947 to 1977 a home for 60 secondary school students was set up in the castle.
From 1982–1994 a kindergarten run by the State of Salzburg was housed.
Seeburg has been the seat of the private university Schloss Seeburg since 2007 .

Today the castle is owned by the municipality of Seekirchen am Wallersee.
In 1999 Seeburg Castle was comprehensively renovated. The roofs of the chapel and the corner towers were covered with wooden shingles, the main building with copper sheets. The buildings got lime plaster and lime paint. The castle chapel was restored, especially the stucco work by Benedikt Zöpf , the altar structure, the ceiling fresco and the interior plaster damaged by moisture. In the course of the renovation, historical wall sections of the medieval complex were exposed in the castle courtyard. A baroque painting was discovered in the base area of ​​the wedding room. A ruler bust painted in 1755 with fruit pendants on both sides was restored and the surrounding base design was documented.

In the castle are today

Seeburg Castle is known and loved for both civil and church weddings. A Fitpoint with an 18-hole mini golf course (with lighting), a barefoot path with various floor coverings and a Kneipp basin was set up around the walls of the facility .

architecture

fortress

The rectangular ring wall system has four round corner towers with an artificial moat towards the slope and from the southwest a stone bridge to the arched passage of the gate.

lock

The rectangular, partly inside vaulted castle building in the middle of the complex has a basement with the main entrance with a simple profiled rectangular stone wall in the northwest. It has three floors, with the third floor added in 1850. The building has a simple facade with a cove under a mansard roof.

chapel

The St. The chapel, consecrated to Rupert von Salzburg , was documented in 1617 and rebuilt in 1752 and consecrated in 1758. The chapel has a high hall with a flat-arched apse. The gallery with stucco decoration and a stuccoed alliance coat of arms Lodron-Arco around 1755. The walls are stuccoed with pilasters. The ceiling shows the picture Death of St. Rupert by the painter Gennaro Basile around 1755. The altar around 1755 shows the altar leaf hll. Friedrich and Rupert standing with Mary with child on pedestal with relief Baptism of Duke Theodos by St. Rupert by Gennaro Basile (1755). Tabernacle as well as the benches with cheeks around 1755.

Fountain

In the courtyard north of the chapel is a fountain basin with a lion's head as a gargoyle from the 18th century.

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Salzburg 1986 . Seekirchen, Seeburg Castle, pp. 401–402.
  • Andreas Radauer: House chronicle Seekirchen. Abakus-Verlag, Salzburg 1988.
  • Elisabeth Dopsch, Heinz Dopsch : 1300 years of Seekirchen (history and culture of a Salzburg market town) , self-published by the market town of Seekirchen, 1996.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From: Karl Adrian: Alte Sagen aus dem Salzburger Land , Vienna 1948.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 11.2 "  N , 13 ° 8 ′ 10.9"  E