Weyer Castle (Gmunden)

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Weyer Castle

Weyer Castle is located in the district of the same name in Gmunden am Traunsee in Upper Austria (Carl Josef von Frey Gasse 27).

history

Gut Weyer was first mentioned in 1446 as a fiefdom of the Ort rulership . The small castle was built in 1596 as the "Sitz am Weyr" by the then feudal taker Abraham von Rorbach, who had previously acquired the immediately neighboring farm "am Weyer" (still "Moar im Weyer") from Hektor Jägenreuther zu Pernau. Maximilian Häckhelberger von Höhenberg and Arbesbach bought the patio in 1606 and had it administered from Mühlwang . The next owners in 1613 were the Gmunden citizen Leopold Pötsch and his housewife Margaretha, the latter sold the castle to Sebastian Suess after the death of her husband. The next buyer was Hans Chrainser. In 1621 the property went to forester Hans Christoph Rottner. In 1624, Emperor Ferdinand II regained the noble freedoms that had been lost through the sale to bourgeois owners. In 1627 Rottner had to sell his property to the Bavarian Count Adam von Herberstorff , who gave the castle to Hans Christoph Schmitzperger vom Thurm († 1637) as a compensation “because of his 20-year-old. faithful service ”. After the death of Hans Christoph, who remained without descendants, the widow Weyer sold to Dr. jur. Georg Scharl, Comes Palatinus . Already in 1653 he sold the entire property to Johann Adam Spindler von Hofeck zu Waldpach († 1686). Spindler's daughter Beatrix was married to Christoph Benedikt Hayden von Dorff auf Lindach and Weyer came to her after the death of her father. After the death of his first wife (1707), Hayden married Eleonora Hegenmüller von Dubenweiler (the alliance coat of arms of both is affixed above the sacristy door of the castle chapel). In 1722 the castle was sold to the Counts of Salburg, in 1723 to Josef Ortner, but in 1724 it was bought back by Carl Josef von Frey, son-in-law of Christoph Benedikt von Hayden. In 1738 a boys' orphanage was set up here (hence the name “Woaslhaus” for Weyer Castle), which was handed over to the Salzoberamt in 1755. The estate was slammed into Lindach .

Weyer Castle after an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

Between 1850 and 1870 Schloss Weyer (also called "Freisitz Weyer") was owned by John Armstrong , Esq, among others . and his wife, Viktoria Josefa Mayr (von Melnhof) , followed by a knight from Cerny. The trivial school was then housed in the castle until 1879, when the coppersmith August Hönig, son of the dialect poet Franz Hönig , bought it. From 1981 a fundamental renovation of the castle was initiated. The current owner is Mr. Kommerzialrat Otto Schober.

Weyer Castle today

The castle is a two-storey, hook-shaped castle complex from the 16th century, enclosed by a wall, with a free-standing baroque chapel "Our Lady". The chapel was originally consecrated to St. Benedict (1631), and was re-consecrated in 1710. It has a barrel vault with stitch caps ; the acanthus altar is from 1696 and has been an organ again for several years. The building consists of a longer south wing and a short east wing and a wall that also surrounds the chapel. There is an old well in the courtyard. There are sgraffiti on the east wing , which refer to the previous owners of Weyer. In the south wing is a small hall from the 17th century with a stucco ceiling .

The castle is privately owned. The owners are currently using it as a gallery for Meißen porcelain and silverware, among other things . The inner courtyard and the chapel are open to the public occasionally and on special occasions.

Weyer Castle, inner courtyard with arcades

  • Weyer Castle: chapel tower

  • Sgraffito from the outside of the castle

  • Entrance to the porcelain museum

  • Weyer Castle: south wing

literature

  • Herbert Erich Baumert, Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria, Volume 2: Salzkammergut and Alpine Foreland . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-85030-042-0 .
  • Georg Clam Martinic: Castles and palaces in Austria. Landesverlag in Veritas Verlag, Linz 1991, ISBN 3-85001-679-1 .
  • 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 .
  • Ferdinand Krackowizer, History of the City of Gmunden, Gmunden 1898, Volume 1, p. 134 ff

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Weyer Castle. in the directory of Burgenkunde.at

Web links

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

Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 50 "  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 42"  E