Starhemberg Castle (Haag am Hausruck)

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Entrance facade of the castle

The Starhemberg Castle is in the Renaissance style held palace complex and the first time in 1246 was mentioned in a document. It is located on a hill west of the market square of Haag am Hausruck in Upper Austria. The Hague Museum of Local History is located in the castle.

history

Gundaker IV von Steyr, a ministerial of King Ottokar I Přemysl , built the first stone castle before 1236, after which he was later named. It is called "Storchenberch" in a Passau land register from the 13th century and was an episcopal fief. The Starhembergers held the high jurisdiction as a fief of the Schaunberger . In the battle for royal dignity between Frederick the Fair and Ludwig the Bavarian , the castle was conquered in 1322 by Grams von Uttendorf, a field captain of Ludwig. Ten years later the Bavarians ceded it to Duke Albrecht II and Otto IV . The Starhembergers continued to sit in their main castle until 1379, as they had not given up their claims to the Passau fiefdom. Duke Albrecht III finally compensated them with 3,000 pounds of silver. The castle was now mostly administered by carers or given as a pledge. In 1414, Reinprecht II von Walsee became a pledge. The Starhembergers also held the rule - this time as a pledge - in the first half of the 15th century. But they were soon replaced by the followers, followed by the Jörger . Both in 1461 and 1491 the castle was again pledged to the Starhembergers. In 1498 King Maximilian I sold the rulership including the district court to Christoph Jörger. He had the still castle-like castle rebuilt and made more homely. As one of the leaders of the Protestant aristocratic uprising of 1620, the here born Helmhard Freiherr von Jörger was ostracized. His possessions were confiscated.

Starhemberg Castle after an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

Emperor Ferdinand II first pledged Starhemberg to the city of Wels and then sold it to the Diocese of Passau in 1627. The bishops put carers in charge of administration. During the Upper Austrian Peasants' War of 1626, Starhemberg Castle was captured by the rebels under Achaz Willinger. The archive was destroyed and the armory looted. In 1632, another peasant uprising broke out in the Innviertel, which ended with the execution of six leaders. The remains of the quartered were on public display in Grieskirchen, Hofkirchen and Haag. During the War of the Spanish Succession, the Bavarian General Litzelburg besieged and occupied the castle. When Passau was secularized in 1803, Starhemberg fell back to the Austrian state and was administered by the court chamber. On the way to Austerlitz, Napoleon stayed in the castle in 1805. In 1809 this served as a French military hospital. From 1810 to 1816, Haag and the Innviertel belonged to Bavaria. In 1836 the Austrian state privatized the rule. Michael Fink from Braunau and Franz Seyrl from Ried became the new owners. The latter was the sole owner from 1847. From 1915 to 1916 the Austrian army used the castle as a military hospital. Hugo Seyrl sold the property in 1916 to Hans Hatschek, who carried out major alterations and restorations between 1923 and 1925. The appearance of the facility was significantly changed. During the Second World War it served as a transit camp for refugees. Starhemberg Castle is still owned by the Hatschek family and is also inhabited by them. Concerts take place in the castle courtyard in summer.

description

The stately castle is located on a wooded hill above the Haag am Hausruck market. It is in an excellent state of preservation. The elongated group of buildings essentially dates from the 16th century. However, over the centuries the old walls were overlaid by newer buildings, so that today nothing is reminiscent of the former castle. The current appearance is largely determined by the renovations of the 20th century. In the front part of the picturesque courtyard there is a remarkable Nepomuk fountain. The chapel at the end of the courtyard was rebuilt during the restoration work in 1923/25. At that time the main tower was also significantly increased, while the towers flanking the gate were shortened considerably. The openings for the rollers of the former drawbridge can still be seen on the gate. The moat and the bridge have long since disappeared. There is a narrow pedestrian gate next to the renaissance gate. One side of the courtyard is decorated with three-story arcades. The arcades on the lower two floors were walled up in the 19th century. The rooms of the older southern part are partially vaulted with lancing cap barrels. Some rooms have beamed ceilings. The former brewery is located in the north wing. It houses the Hague Heimatstuben, an interesting local museum.

  • Entrance portal seen from the castle courtyard

  • Nepomuk fountain in the courtyard of Starhemberg Castle

  • Starhemberg Castle (inner courtyard on the right)

  • Starhemberg Castle (inner courtyard left)

literature

  • Georg Clam Martinic : Austrian Castle Lexicon. Castles and ruins, mansions, palaces and palaces. 2nd Edition. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1992, ISBN 3-85214-559-7 .
  • Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home. 2nd revised edition. Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House, Linz 1970.
  • Norbert Grabherr: Upper Austria - land of castles and palaces. = Land of castles and palaces. A castle guide for drivers. Upper Austrian Automobile, Motorcycle and Touring Club, Linz 1964.
  • Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in the Innviertel and Alpine foothills. Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1964 ( Upper Austria's castles and palaces 2).
  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now. Berger, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
  • Laurin Luchner: Residences and country estates in Upper Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-04508-1 ( Schlösser in Österreich 2).
  • Ilse Schöndorfer: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. NP-Buchverlag, St. Pölten et al. 2001, ISBN 3-85326-189-2 .
  • Gerhard Stenzel: From castle to castle in Austria. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-218-00229-X .
  • Gerhard Stenzel: From castle to castle in Austria. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-218-00288-5 .

Web links

Commons : Starhemberg Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Starnberg in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Upper Austrian Museums
  2. ↑ A "Gundakar de Storchenberch" is mentioned as a witness as early as 1236: AT-StiAM, MelkOSB, 1236 XI 11

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 13.7 "  N , 13 ° 38 ′ 22.6"  E