Urfahrn Castle

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Historical engraving of the old castle by Michael Wening

Urfahrn Castle is a castle ensemble in Reisach in the upper Bavarian Inn Valley (municipality of Oberaudorf ). It is only a few meters from the Reisach Carmelite monastery west of the Inn.

history

The New Urfahrn Castle consists of a three-storey main building with two-storey wing structures. It was built in 1721/27 by Abraham Millauer according to plans by Johann Baptist Gunetzrhainer . It is the only castle that was built in the upper Inn Valley in the 18th century. The builder was the electoral brewing commissioner and court chamber councilor Johann Georg von Messerer, who a few years later also founded the Urfahrn monastery - now Reisach. The castle ensemble includes a castle chapel (18th century) and a crypt chapel (1725) with furnishings; two outbuildings with tent roofs, the castle park with walls and a residential building with a hipped roof (all also 18th century). It was last restored in 1949/50 by the then owner Wilhelm Bracht.

The old castle Urfahrn was built in 1427 as a residential tower with 5 floors by the family of Urfahrn and was the seat of a Hofmark . The old castle was depicted around 1700 by Michael Wening († April 18, 1718) in his “Historico-topographica descriptio Bavariae”. After the New Palace was built, it was converted into a three-story hipped roof building by demolishing the upper floors; it is vaulted on the ground floor. It is used as a residential house today. It is currently privately owned.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Urfahrn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 56.5 "  N , 12 ° 10 ′ 43"  E