Weitersdorf Castle
The Weitersdorf Castle is a former moated castle in the same district of the municipality Eggendorf im Traunkreis in District Linz-Land (Weitersdorf 8).
history
The Castle Weitersdorf stood at the bottom of Kremsmünster . The farmers of this area were obliged to give the monastery in kind as well as manual and tension services. But there was also a patio on the property. In the loan book of Duke Albrecht VI. the castle was first named in 1458 or 1460, as a fiefdom of Sigmund Wolkauf, married to Sibylla von Kastner on Ottsdorf ( "sicz vnd pawhof zu Weytterstorff" ). Otto der Moser von Wehr near Leompach is mentioned as the next owner in 1491 . He then calls himself Mr. von Eggendorf and Weitersdorf. Sighartinger, Mühlwanger and Spiller appear as other owners. The Helmbergers held the castle between 1644 and 1659. In 1659 Abbot Placidus Buechauer from Kremsmünster Abbey bought it from them.
Weitersdorf Castle was converted into a tavern by Abbot Erenbert Schrevogl in 1673 . Mathias Grillmayr and his wife Anna followed through purchase in 1787. When her daughter Katharina Grillmayr married in 1819, the castle passed to her husband Johann Roißner. He sold the property to Therese Pfrittner in 1865. From 1929 to 1956 it was owned by the Wiesmayr family, who moved their guest business to the nearby Hueb moated castle and sold the Weitersdorf tavern to the Georg Schöller family. The tavern is still run as an inn by Erich Schöller today.
description
As the view of Weitersdorf Castle on an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674 in his Topographia Austriae superioris modernae shows, Weitersdorf was a simple, two-storey building with a square floor plan, protected on all sides by a moat. There was a tower above the entrance gate to which a wooden bridge led.
The moats are filled in today. The former castle is hardly recognizable in the current building due to several renovations. In addition to the inn, it is worth mentioning an originally preserved shop lane (= wooden bowling alley), on which skittles are still pushed. The inn is now called "Gasthaus zur Taverne".
Front view
Side view
Store lane
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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Taverne Weitersdorf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '54.3 " N , 14 ° 8' 54.2" E