Tillysburg Castle
The Chantilly Castle is located in the same place Tillysburg the municipality of St. Florian in District Linz-Land , about 2.5 kilometers west of Volkersdorf .
history
The predecessor building of Tillysburg Castle was the family castle of the Lords of Gleink and the Volkerstorffer. The Lords of Gleink ("Glunich") had built the Benedictine monastery of Gleink on their ancestral seat of the same name around 1120 and then built the Castle of Volkenstorf . After 1151 they called themselves Volkenstorfer after this castle . The Volkersdorfers were one of the oldest families in Upper Austria (so-called Apostles ). As a result, the family split into three lines, one of which was settled in Volkenstorf, one on Kreuzen (1282-1489) and one in Neuhofen (1223-1312). The Volkersdorfer owned the regional court with the blood spell between Traun and Enns from the sovereign as a fief.
Ortlof von Volkenstorf stabbed the scribe von Enns, the Rosenberger Wittiko, to death in the refectory of St. Florian Monastery in 1256. Thereupon he was declared by King Ottokar of his fiefdom for loss and the castle was razed. However, his son Heinrich Volkensdorf managed to regain possession of the fief. In 1282 he issued a lapel to the provincial administrator, Duke Albrecht I , in which he promised not to “complain” to anyone of his new Volkenstorf castle ( “castrum meum Volchnsdorf, quod destructum fuerat” ), neither clerical nor secular . The castle was also rebuilt after a fire in 1558.
In 1616 this sex died out with Wolf Wilhelm II von Volkersstorff in the male line. In his will he built from the dominions people Ensdorf, White Mountain, Stone and Reichersdorf a Fideikommiss . From 1610 until his death Wolf Wilhelm was governor of Austria ob der Enns, but also a Protestant . After his death, his possessions came to his wife Katharina, who, as a Protestant, had to emigrate first to Regensburg and then to Nuremberg after the battle of the White Mountain in 1620, which was victorious for the Catholic Habsburgs . From this, in 1629/1630 Count Werner t'Serklaes von Tilly, a nephew of the general Johann t'Serclaes von Tilly , bought the property. He had the former Volkenstorf Castle demolished and the new Tillysburg Castle built between 1633 and 1645 using the demolition material. In 1720 the castle was redesigned by Johann Michael Prunner . The Tillys on Tillysburg died out with Ferdinand Lorenz in 1724. His sister, married Countess Montfort , became heiress . In 1730 they sold the Tillysburg together with the people of Volkerstorff and Stein to the poorly managed baron Johann Josef Clemens Anton von Weichs. From the bankruptcy estate, Ludovika von Weichs acquired the dominions of Tillysburg and Stein in 1755. In 1764 she sold the castle and property to the St. Florian monastery. During the French Wars (1809) the castle served as a field hospital.
In 1841 Count Karl O'Hagerty acquired the castle and the property (but without the district court); his wife was Countess Sternberg-Manderscheid. O'Hagerty had previously been master of the stables at the French court; Because of this background, he set up stables for around 40 horses and began breeding horses, which among other things supplied the Enns barracks with cavalry horses. The horse stable was reconstructed with the equipment from 1849 during the last renovation. Anton Bruckner gave piano lessons to the Count's children during his time as a schoolteacher in St. Florian (1845–1855), and presumably also lessons in other subjects. The Count's daughter Ida O'Hagerty married Count Franz von Eltz in 1883 . Count August and Margarete von Eltz followed in 1897; For more than 100 years, this family managed the castle and the associated agriculture. The building suffered greatly from looting and the billeting of refugees during the Second World War.
In 1988 Heinrich Graf von Eltz sold the castle to Count Georg Spiegelfeld-Schneeburg , who was responsible for the renovation and revitalization of the castle.
Tillysburg Castle today
The castle is a four-wing building with square corner towers around a rectangular inner courtyard. It is a building typical of the transition between Renaissance and Baroque . The left, park-side corner tower protrudes far above the roof ridge, while the other three only protrude one story above the roof. They have flat roofs. The former towers were partially demolished at the end of the 19th century and their onion domes were robbed. This unusual design today has led to the name of the castle "as the inverted bedstead" in the vernacular . The inner courtyard is completely encompassed by the four wings, which are equipped with arbors with 36 imposing granite columns at ground level. The east wing has a baroque staircase that was built in the second half of the 18th century and is an exact replica of the staircase by Jakob Prandtauer in the St. Florian monastery . The courtyard facades have rich stucco decor. The courtyard is accessible from the north and south through baroque gates with pedestrian gates. On the north facade of the courtyard there is a painted sundial, framed by the coats of arms of the owner families.
The interior rooms have rich stucco ceilings with figural bas-reliefs from 1736, the doors with inlays . In the west wing of the castle there is a baroque chapel with a barrel vault from the time it was built; the high altar dates from around 1635.
In the gardens in front of the castle entrance there are stone figures depicting the four seasons.
To the south of the castle is the former, recently renovated courthouse. In its completely preserved dungeon cells, Protestants in particular had to wait for their trial or their expulsion from the country. In the court clerk's office there are multiple layers of graffiti , the layers of which date from different periods of origin (17th to 19th centuries) and are historically unique. This building is privately owned and cannot be visited.
Entrance portal
East-facing staircase
Courthouse
Graffiti in the clerk's office
Access road with lime tree avenue
Copper beech in front of the castle (Natural Monument 582, Upper Austria)
Golf course in the castle garden
The Linz St. Florian Golf Club has been housed in the area of the former castle garden since 1973 and operates an 18-hole course there.
The castle is privately owned; Parts of it are rented to different users. Through cultural events (concerts, literary evenings, seminars, exhibitions, special festivals), parts of the palace are open to the public for events. A tour of the large north tower is possible by appointment. Incidentally, the castle can only be viewed from the outside.
literature
- Georg Clam Martinic: Castles and palaces in Austria. Landesverlag in Veritas Verlag, Linz 1991, ISBN 3-85001-679-1 .
- Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home . 3. Edition. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .
- Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria, Volume 2: Innviertel and Alpine foothills . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1964.
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
- Christina Schmid, Georg Spiegelfeld: The castle (s) Volkersdorf. In Südtiroler Burgeninstitut (Hrsg.): Burgen Perspektiven. 50 years of the South Tyrolean Castle Institute, 1961–2013. Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck, ISBN 978-3-7030-0838-2 , pp. 111-118.
Web links
- Tillysburg on Burgenkunde.at
- Entry on Tillysburg Castle in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Entry via Tillysburg to Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ^ Elisabeth Maier: Anton Bruckner and the Tillysburg. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 162, Linz 2017, pp. 325–329 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
- ↑ Sagas and legends about the Tillysburg
- ↑ St. Florian Golf Club
- ↑ Akademie Schloss Tillysburg ( page no longer available )
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 57 " N , 14 ° 25 ′ 21.5" E