Walchen Castle

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Walchen Castle

The Schloss Walchen is in the district Walchen the community Vöcklamarkt in District Vöcklabruck of the country Upper Austria (Walchen 1).

Surname

The settlement name Walchen meant the Welschen , "Welschen" in turn comes from the old Germanic and was the earlier name for Celts. The immigrating Bavarians found a Roman settlement. The Roman quadrangular corridors can still be traced in the fields today .

history

The family of the "Walhen" appeared in Attergau as early as 1040 and was mentioned in 1371 in the Schaunberger Urbar. Around 1380 it appears as the princely fief of "Ulrich von Walhen set up in the Atergouw in the pflegze Kamer".

Hans Christoph Geymann (Geumann) acquired the Walchen rule in 1583. Instead of the former Walchen Castle , he had a new castle built in 1590 . His son Ortolf occupied Kogl Castle on behalf of the Protestant estates during the aristocratic revolt . However, after the Bavarian invasion of Friedrich von der Pfalz , the so-called Winter King, he had to flee to Prague . The Ortlof stepbrothers were partisans of the emperor and were able to save Walchen for the family. In 1632 Franz Christoph Khevenhüller bought the rule of Walchen from Hans Paul Geymann's son . As early as 1638 he sold the property to Nikolaus von Gurland, the councilor and treasurer of Emperor Ferdinand II.

Walchen Castle an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

The dynasty of Count Gurland died out within a short time in 1736 (possibly due to a plague or cholera epidemic ). The inheritance went to Count Leopold Christoph von Schallenberg , whose mother Dorothea Juliana was a Countess of Gurland. She is said to have gone "mad" from the pain of losing her family. According to legend, she still haunts the castle as a "white woman". Christoph von Schallenberg sold Walchen to Count Johann Gottlieb von Clam in 1766 . In 1786 Walchen came into the possession of Baron Christoph von Aretin . He was succeeded by Josef Preuer in 1802. His wife Rosalie was replaced by Josef Klemens von Weichs in 1821 . Under the Weichs-Glon, Walchen developed in connection with Felix von Pausinger, who owned the nearby Kogl Castle, to a kind of artists' colony to which Rudolf von Alt also belonged. In 1881 Georg von Aichinger acquired the property from the siblings Gabriele, Heinrich, Theresia, Friedrich, Maria and Sophie Weichs-Glon. He was succeeded by Otto von Steinbeis (1889), Felix Freiherr von Than-Dittner (1903), Georg Kaisinger (1914), Anton Gartner-Romansbruck (1916), Friedrich and Emma Waldeck, Otto and Ernst Mitteiswicz (1917), the Schaumburg family -Lip ; the last owner from this family was Princess Walpurgis zu Schaumburg-Lippe. Visitors to the Schaumburg-Lippes on Walch were Friedrich Georg Jünger and Martin Heidegger .

In 1959 the castle and the associated farm were acquired by Mrs. Pauline Hanreich-Ludwig. This came from a Viennese k. and k. Court cabinetmakers family, and they bought the castle to give their collection of antique furniture a worthy setting. Pauline's daughter, Eugenie Hanreich, collected in the course of her folklore career a considerable pool of equipment, toys and objects from children's worlds from the near and distant past, which form the basis of today 's Children's World Museum in the Meierhof of the castle. Bankruptcy proceedings were opened on July 20, 2016 against the daughter and heir of Eugenie Hanreich, Friedrun Hanreich. The castle has a new owner. A branch of the Hanreich family owns Feldegg Castle .

description

The castle is a three-story building with a broken hipped roof . A two-story wing is built on the left. In the triangular gable above the entrance gate is a clock, underneath is the Geymann family coat of arms (?). The previously existing clock tower, which can be seen on a Vischer engraving from 1674, is no longer there. The wall surrounding the castle has also disappeared. The gate to the castle is a simple stone portal with a segmented arch and a protruding keystone . In 2001 the castle was awarded the Upper Austrian Craftsman Prize by the Hochholzer company for the excellent restoration of the facade.

The library and other representative rooms are located on the second floor. During the renovation in 1961, a painted coffered ceiling (wooden dowel ceiling) from the end of the 16th century was carved out. Other ceiling paintings show biblical scenes, depictions of hunting and the four seasons. The baroque ovens come from Losensteinleithen Castle . There are also two chapels in the castle . The baroque Catholic chapel forms the east end of a suite of rooms. Your flat ceiling has ceiling stucco from 1750/1770. In the gallery there is a rococo altar from the 18th century. A Nepomuk statue dates from 1760/1770. The late Gothic glass windows are from the third quarter of the 15th century. The simple Protestant chapel was only found during the renovation of the castle in 1960/70, when the ground floor rooms that served as the coal cellar were cleared. It should still come from the time the castle was built. A wrought-iron grille , the rhombuses of which match the painted coffered ceiling, is to be emphasized. In the frescoes of the chapel can be seen among others, the Baptism of Christ. It should go back to the Geymanns, who adhered to the Protestant faith. Pictures of the interior of the castle and the works of art collected there can be found in the journal money, das klubjournal , 2007, issue 3.

An avenue of lime trees, which was planted by Baron von Walchs in 1822, belongs to the palace . It is considered a natural monument.

In the park there are late baroque stone figures depicting St. Donatus and St. Florian .

  • Meierhof

  • Medium risalit

  • West wing

  • Coat of arms on the side wing

literature

  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
  • 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 .
  • Herbert Erich Baumert, Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. Volume 2: Innviertel and Alpine Foreland. Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-85030-049-3 .

Web links

Commons : Walchen Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Koschatzky: Rudolf von Alt: with a collection of works by the Alt family of painters. Böhlau, Vienna 2001, p. 189.
  2. ↑ page | KSV1870. (No longer available online.) In: www.myksv.at. Archived from the original on September 15, 2016 ; accessed on September 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.myksv.at
  3. ↑ money & Co Investment Club Upper Austria (ed.): Legendary art jewel. In: money & Co. the club journal. Edition 3, Linz 2007, pp. 2-4.
  4. ↑ Lindenallee in Walchen Castle Park. In: ooe.gv.at, accessed on November 30, 2019.

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 7.1 ″  N , 13 ° 29 ′ 28.8 ″  E