Weißau Castle
The former Weißau Castle was located in the Oberweißau district of the Lochen am See municipality in the Braunau district .
history
The first documentary mention of the place Weißau (Wizauwa) comes from the year 1120, however this is not yet connected with the later residence Weißau of Meisrembl. The Meisrembls or Meusrembels are the founders of the Weißau residence and documented several times: The name Meisremel is traced back to Rumilo, son of Meizo (Rudmar, son of Meginhard). In 1421 a Heinrich Meisremel is mentioned in Achenich as the head of the Kobernaußerwald forest . A Wolfgang Meisrembel was in 1528 "Master in the Trumbbrobstei" in the Archdiocese of Salzburg . In 1558 Georg Meussremel (until 1599) received the office of district judge in Friedburg .
In 1503 Weißau was owned by the Meisrembl. In 1557 the brothers Georg and Thomas Meusrembel were the owners of Weißau. On October 21, 1558, Duke Albrecht V issued a fiefdom letter in which Thomas Meusrembel appears as the buyer of his brother Georg's share of the property in the upper Weißau (including all tapping and licensing rights to Weißau). The right to tap for today's innkeeper z'Weißau was pronounced in 1560. Around 1578 an Adam Scharl appears as a third co-owner of Weißau. Thomas (Thoman) Meisrembel had four children: Wolfgang (Wolfen), Euphrosina, Christoph and Sebastian. The latter two worked as chaplains in Astätt (Christoph 1637, Sebastian 1644). Euphrosina Meusrembel had married Georg Vizdomb (died in the year of the plague in 1628); this came from the noble Vitzthum von Rothenburg, who had their headquarters there. Georg Vizdomb received a third share in Weißau through the marriage. He also took over the licensing rights from his brother-in-law Thoman. Around 1600 he was the two-thirds owner of the knight-less seat in Weissau. Georg Vizdomb had a son (Wolf) with his wife Euphrosina. In his second marriage he was married to an aphrigina. From this marriage there were four sons and three daughters (Rosina, Magdalena, Melchior, Caspar, Paulus, Barbara and Salomon). On May 13, 1625, Melchior received a feudal letter from Duke Maximilian I , which gave him a third of the estate and the licensing rights; Caspar received the second third. In June 1626, Wolf filed a complaint with the Lehenshof in Munich, claiming that as the eldest he would be entitled to the inheritance. He actually received Melchior's share and Paul received Caspar's share. The property also includes goods in Tannberg, Kranzing, Grub and Niedern Plain in Baumgarten.
Since that time Weißau was divided into two or three lines: Wolf is the founder of the inn line , Paulus the founder of the estate line . Adam Scharl held another third of the property. Wolf Viztdomb died in the spring of 1648, leaving behind six children, to whom a third of the property fell. On May 12, 1648, the electoral feudal chancellery in Munich confirmed that Ober-Weißau was a seat, i.e. that it was regarded as a knight's fief. From 1652 to 1652 a Paulus Vizdomb appears as guardian of the Bernhardten Vizdom zu Sauldorf. On November 14, 1679, Duke Maximilian Philipp issued a feudal letter to Kaspar Vizdomb (landlord) over a third of the share in Weissau, along with beer tap and tap rights.
Lower jurisdiction was associated with the noble seat. This either extended “to the eaves”, so it was limited to the immediate area of the house, or it was extended to the entire Hofmark; the latter applies to Weißau. Own procurators and judges were in the service of the noble owners for administrative and legal transactions. The following are known by name: N. Muzhardt (N. Morzonhardt) before 1733, Johann Gottlieb Hürl (from 1733), Simon Jacob Pramhöfer (1749), Ignation Lezaro Lehner (also 1749), Leonhard Lehner (1750 to 1785).
The Vizdombs of Weißau belonged to the knighthood and nobility and paid knight tax to the Burghausen Rentamt . In times of war, Weißau had to put a man in armor on horseback. The coat of arms shows a knight in armor with an open helmet on a horse jumping to the right, holding a sword in his right hand to strike. The crest forms an armored arm, angled to the right. The hand embraces the pommel of the sword drawn to strike. With a letter of August 28, 1702 it is decreed that the feudal people can also perform the knightly service owed in cash; that had been communicated to Simon and Adam Vizdom and Caspar Scharl. The great-grandson of Simon Vizdom, Petrus Vitzthumb, is the founder of the Lengau line of the Vitzthumbs in 1786 .
The current building of the inn dates from 1742, whereby the entrance to the inn on the garden side bears the year 1557, indicating the owners Georg and Thomas Meusrembel.
Under Duke Karl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach , on May 28, 1779, the courts belonging to the former Churbairian government of Burghausen were "extradited" to the ore house of Austria. In 1787, Joseph Vitzthumb the Second (host line), Georg the Second (estate line) and Kaspar Scharl were given the seat of Weißau by Emperor Josef II . On October 3, 1798, Emperor Franz II freed Weißau from the fiefdoms that were burdening it. After a Bavarian interlude (from 1809 to 1816 the Innviertel again belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria), the Habsburg Emperor Franz I received the state homage in Salzburg, in which the noble seaters of Weißau also took part. In 1818, Joseph Vizthum (landlord), Johann Vitzthum (on the Vitzthumgut ) and Simon Roithner (on the Scharlgut ) appear as the noble seat owners . On March 18, 1834, Franz Vitzthum was approved to write in the Innviertel land table. On September 7, 1848, the ban on subjects was lifted and all land was relieved.
In 1909, with Josef Vitzthum the Third, the inn line went out. The estate line still exists. The other owners of the tapping and tapping rights were Franz and Anna Spindler (from July 6, 1909), Johann and Anna Maier (from July 6, 1932), Franz and Justine Maier, nee. Huber (on June 4, 1957) and today Franz and Gerlinde Strobl, b. Maier (from August 1, 2000).
Weissau today
The castle is said to have stood between the current buildings in Oberweißau No. 3 and 6. It fell victim to a fire in 1810; the outbuildings were preserved. Foundations of the castle were found in the orchard behind the inn; these have been built over in the meantime. The court building belonging to the castle is said to have been in the inn.
literature
- Bogner: The noble seat in Oberweißau. In: Br. Heimatkunde Heft 8, p. 70.
- 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 , p. 51 .
- House chronicle of the host z'Weissau.
- Benedikt Pillwein (Ed.): History, geography and statistics of the Archduchy of Austria above the Enns and the Duchy of Salzburg . With a register, which is also the topographical and genealogical lexicon and the district map. Geographical-historical-statistical detail according to district commissariats. 1st edition. Fourth part: the inner circle . Joh. Christ. Quandt, Linz 1832, Oberweissau, p. 235 f ( Google eBook ). 2nd edition 1843 ( Google Book )
Web links
- Homepage Wirt z'Weissau
- Weissau , Digital Upper Austrian Culture Atlas (DOKA).
Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '54.2 " N , 13 ° 10' 42" E