St. Veit Castle
The Castle of St. Vitus was in the town of St. Veit im Mühlkreis in Rohrbach District of Upper Austria .
history
In 1209 the place, probably from the Piber family , was first mentioned in a document with Sieghart de St. Vito . Wernhardus de sancto Vito, mentioned in 1264, or his son of the same name (1316–1318) can be considered the builder of the moated castle . At that time, Sanct Vito was owned by Schaunberger , which also owned Waxenberg. From 1350 to 1380, Chunrad von Waxenberg is listed as the caretaker and district judge . His sister Chunigunde and her son Hanns der Posch each inherited half of the property. Both left the castle to their brother-in-law Hertlein Scheckenreuther (Härtl der Schnekkenreuter) in 1393. In 1406 St. Veit was given to Hanns Schwab as a fief. The owner of Waxenberg and Sankt Veit, Reinprecht IV. Von Walsee , enfeoffed Siegmund den Steger with the St. Veit fortress in 1433. The last Steger Gregor died in 1580. He was followed in 1588 by Gregor Steger's son-in-law, Georg Hager von Allensteig, who had married Gregor Steger's daughter Brigitte.
Of the Hagers, Siegmund Hager († 1617) is particularly known for his military service. In 1612 he had his loyal dog Delphin put a tombstone that used to be in the base of the castle. The background is an incident after which the knight fell asleep in the war against the Netherlands. The enemies came closer and closer, the dog guarding him could not wake him by barking and so the dog pinched his ear, the knight awoke and escaped his enemies. This is where the saying comes from: “This is where the dog is buried.” The dog's tombstone contained a picture of the dog and the following text:
" I guarded the main gentleman with Droi, that's why I did the stain, Telvin was enough from him, hir lig I buried in Sant, the time I was at Lewen, his been 17 years. 1612. "
After 1617 the rule came first to the Märck and then to Konstantin Karl von Cronpichl and passed from this to Hans Seyfried Hager again in 1658. Ott Siegfried Hager married Countess Maria Katzianer in 1707; thereby he received the castles Piberstein and Weyer . In 1731 Ott Siegmund Hager sold the castle to Count Adam Anton Grundemann on Waldenfels . Under the Grundemanns, the castle burned down almost completely in 1821. Despite economic difficulties, Philipp Grundemann managed to secure the property. But after his death the makeshift castle was auctioned off at the Linz regional court in 1843. The best bidder was Laurenz Fölser, canvas dealer from Haslach and owner of the Lichtenau estate, in 1844 he sold the estate to the estate agent Alexander and his wife Barbara Roesgen, a Russian citizen. With the sale of the Dominikal estates by the Grundemanns, St. Veit had already lost its character as a noble estate.
Between 1865 and 1880 the castle was rebuilt. The castle pond was drained in 1880/81. At that time, a hat factory was housed in the now one-story building. In 1897 Johann Hofinger, head of the 16th district of Vienna, bought the castle and spent his summer holidays here. Shortly before his death, he donated the castle to the Order of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Divine Savior on condition that they run a kindergarten, nurse nurses and teach handicrafts during the summer months. From 1915, the castle was inhabited by religious sisters. Heinrich Suso Waldeck ended his old age in the building . The monastery was dissolved in 1953. After 1956, the Klosterhof rest house was housed here.
description
As can be seen in the engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674, St. Veit was a two-storey moated castle with a hipped roof. The edge of the pond was lined with house stones. At the corners of the palace there were watch towers. At the front there was another corner tower with an onion hood. A wooden bridge led to the building. To the right of the bridge was a walled fountain.
There was a plaque on the castle wall in memory of the priest, poet and composer Heinrich Suso Waldeck who lived here.
The palace area today
The castle building was not under monument protection, and so it was leveled in 2003 due to a municipal council resolution - shortly before the monument protection office could take action. Other interested parties who wanted to keep the castle building were not awarded the contract. Ironically, therefore, the poster on the St. Veiter's story house is to be rated with the quote “Those who don't remember the past thing, lose a useful life” (Hans Seyfried Hager, 1670).
Today a supermarket and an asphalt car park can be found on the site of the former historic town center. All that remains of the castle or later monastery building is the former horse stable, which was converted into a residential building. This was originally connected to the castle building by an archway.
Behind the demolished castle there is now a water system on a sports grounds, which may be reminiscent of earlier times.
Supermarket with parking lot on the site of St. Veit Castle
Former horse stable
St. Veit Castle on a poster of the St. Veiter Heimatmuseum
Pond behind the former St. Veit Castle
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literature
- 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 .
- Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria, Volume 1: Mühlviertel . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1962.
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Veit dog memorial
- ↑ Information on Heinrich Suso Waldeck on aeiou.at , accessed on May 1, 2013.
- ↑ The civil history of the castle building
Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 5.9 ″ N , 14 ° 9 ′ 40.7 ″ E