Waldbach Castle

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The lost Waldbach Castle was located in the Waldbach district of the city of Gmunden in the Gmunden district of Upper Austria (Waldbach 150).

history

The castle was built on Traunkirchen property in 1441. Traundorf was then part of the Ort rule . Tensions existed for decades between Traundorf and Gmunden, as the people of Traundorf disregarded the privileges of the city of Gmunden. These could only be cleared when Traundorf was incorporated into the truce of Gmunden for the first time in 1603 and finally in 1637 .

Waldbach was owned by Therese and Thomas Freytag in 1447. In 1490 a Wolf Freytag is named as the owner. In 1600 Waldbach came to Veith Spindler von Hofegg . In 1725, Karl Josef Oktavianus was named owner by Frey. In 1820 Waldbach was united with Weyer Castle by Baron von Frey . Then Waldbach came to Engelhardt and Josef Kirchmayr. Ignaz, Josef's son, had the castle torn down in 1885 because it was in a state of disrepair.

A farm was created from the building material (Waldbach 150). The castle pond was partially drained in 1953, but is still there. After the castle was demolished, a villa was built on the resulting peninsula.

literature

  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
  • Franz Hufnagl: The toll to Gmunden: Development history of the Salzkammergut. Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77762-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Hufnagl: Die Maut zu Gmunden , 2008, pp. 223 and 302.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 17.5 "  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 25.5"  E