Tollet Castle
The Tollet Castle is a Renaissance castle in the municipality Tollet and lies two kilometers north-west of Grieskirchen .
History of the castle
Tollet was a fiefdom from Ort bei Gmunden to the Tolleter. The first fortification on a hill above the Trattnachtal was built by Ortlof von Tollet in 1170. The Tolleter were a ministerial family of the Styrian Ottokare. Ortlof von Tollet gave its name to the first seat and later the whole settlement. After the Tolleter died out, the castle fell back to the rulership of Ort in 1273. The complex was expanded when it came into the possession of the Lerbühlers in 1331, who, like the first owner, probably belonged to the knighthood and received Tollet as fiefs from Ort am Traunsee and also owned Parz . As early as 1330, the castle was to be further expanded with the permission of the sovereign, Duke Friedrich the Fair , but this did not happen because at the same time Trattenegg Castle , which was cheaper, was preferred. After the Lerbühlers, the next owners came from the Jörger family , because Dietmut von Lerbühler had married Helmhart IV Jörger in the 14th century.
The Jörger were a noble family residing in the area. They originally came from St. Georgen bei Tollet, where their first castles stood. Tollet came into different hands twice as a marriage property, but always fell back to the Jörger family through inheritance. Over time, these rose to high offices in the state and acquired large estates. Probably the most famous representative of the Jörger Tolleter line was Wolfgang Jörger IV, who, as a personal friend of Emperor Maximilian I, became captain on the Enns in 1513. His wife Dorothea and his children were converted to Protestantism at an early age . This was because Wolfgang Jörger's sons studied in Germany and got to know Luther personally there. After the death of her husband, Dorothea was in letter contact with Martin Luther , who also sent her the first Lutheran preacher in Upper Austria, Michael Stifel , to Tollet; this has u. a. prophesies the end of the world for October 19, 1533, with which he, like so many others, was wrong. The Protestant faith was so important for the Jörger that they tried to defend it with all means even during the Counter Reformation . Clinging to Luther's teachings should ultimately lead to the downfall of the race.
Hans V. Jörger von Tollet had the castle rebuilt between 1601 and 1611 in the Renaissance style. His name can also be found in the stucco of the ballroom on the first floor. However, he was a representative of the Protestant estates and openly opposed the plans to re-Catholicize Emperor Ferdinand , he even refused to pay homage to the Catholic majesty. So he was charged with high treason. Although he was able to save his life through a petition, he lost almost all of his possessions, including his ancestral castle Tollet. Tollet then went to an enemy of the Protestants, the Bavarian governor of Upper Austria, Adam Graf von Herberstorff , who had achieved questionable fame through the Frankenburg dice game, at a bargain price. Herberstorff's widow sold the estate to Wenzel Reichhard von Sprinzenstein in 1637; The castle remained in the possession of this family until 1771, when Franz II von Sprinzenstein sold the castle for 150,000 fl to Philibert Count Fieger von Hirschberg. In 1738 the chapel was consecrated as the Marienkapelle by the Bishop of Passau.
The Fieger von Hirschberg kept Tollet until 1809. After further changes of ownership (Bocella, Stremayr) the castle came to Count Anton Revertera y Salandra in 1845 .
Measures to renovate the facility were taken among the Reverteras. Instead of the extremely steep incline, a road bend was created below the castle, and the outside of the castle was newly plastered. In 1869, next to the tavern over the filled moat, a stable building was built according to the English model. The other outbuildings were demolished. Under Friedrich Revertera , instead of the steep gable roof, a roof with steep and flat surfaces was put on, the tower was raised and somewhat reshaped. On the whole, however, the character of the building has been preserved since the Renaissance. The grating of the courtyard surrounds from 1607 and comprises 48 fields with 46 different motifs.
present
According to its location, Tollet Castle can still be recognized as a castle, but at that time it was not a castle in the current sense, but probably a fortified wooden structure with palisades and moats. There is nothing left of the fortified castle, as it was demolished and converted into a palace in 1607. The tower of the castle still rests on the foundations of the previous castle, the front walls of the four-sided complex probably also contain remains of the original curtain wall. Four residential wings are grouped around a square inner courtyard to form a closed unit. In the inner courtyard there is a fountain with a stylized wrought iron fountain basket. Around the first floor there is a gallery, which can be reached via an external staircase, also provided with a wrought iron railing. The ground floor rooms in which Tollet's municipal administration is located today are all original from the 17th century. A stucco ceiling from 1609 has been preserved from the original furnishings in the former dining room, the inscription and coat of arms refer to Hans Jörger. On the upper floor there are two more stucco ceilings from the second half of the 17th century. On the tower there is also the coat of arms of Revertera-Salandra , which is held by two lions.
The complex includes a large park that stretches down the hill. In front of the castle are the farm buildings, including some remarkable horse stables. At the beginning of the 18th century the tower of the castle was rebuilt, the clock face of the tower clock is a replica of the country house tower clock in Linz. The two- to three-story Renaissance building was completely redesigned towards the end of the 19th century in line with contemporary tastes.
During the Second World War, Tollet Castle was confiscated by the German government. First a school for female workers and later a hospital was housed in it. After the war it served temporarily as a transit camp for refugees and as a barracks for an American tank unit. The Revertera-Salandra family leased the castle from 1947 to around 1976 to the Upper Austrian Chamber of Agriculture, which set up a rural educational institution here. The castle threatened to deteriorate in the 1980s (parts of the roof had already collapsed). In 2002, Tollet Castle was acquired by AREV Immobilien and the renovation began, which was completed in 2009.
In the renovated premises of the museum in Schloss Tollet, the district home town hall association has put together a presentation on the noble family of Jörger von Tollet in order to make a contribution to the Upper Austrian state exhibition “Renaissance and Reformation”. In 2010, the exhibition "Viewpoints - Jörger von Tollet and their time" took place here.
Today there are eight apartments on the first floor. The municipal office of Tollet and the district home town hall are located on the ground floor. Today the castle is owned by the municipality of Tollet, the apartment owners and the Revertera-Salandra family.
literature
- Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home. 1976 (3rd revised edition), Linz: Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .
- Gerhard Stenzel, Lothar Beckel: From castle to castle in Austria. 1987, Vienna: Kremayr and Scheriau, ISBN 3-21800-288-5 .
- Ernst von Sprinzenstein: Attempt of a history of the Austrian dynasty of the imperial counts and lords from and to Sprinzenstein and Neuhaus , 1894 (unpublished manuscript), Sprinzenstein Castle.
Web links
- Tollet Castle at Burgenkunde.at
- Entry via Tollet on Burgen-Austria
- Kulturama Castle Tollet
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grabherr, 1979, p. 116.
- ↑ a b History of Tollet Castle. Municipality of Tollet, accessed June 3, 2012 .
- ↑ State exhibition Renaissance and Reformation Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 41.2 ″ N , 13 ° 47 ′ 56.9 ″ E