Weyregg Castle
The Weyregg Castle , also outdoor seating Weyregg called, was in the town of Weyregg in District Vöcklabruck of Upper Austria (now Weyregger Str. 66).
history
In 1590 the castle was built by Siegmund Widerroither. In 1591 he was the caretaker at Kogl Castle . In 1595 Widerroither was knighted for his services at the Windisch-Croatian military border and from 1602 he was allowed to call himself von und zu Weyregg . In 1617, Widerroither, who had no descendants, sold the property to Count Franz Christoph Khevenhüller's wife . This was followed in the possession of the daughter Ida von Horvath. Weyegg was united with the rule Kammer and thus lost its importance. With effect from January 1, 1619, the Weyregg and Kogl lords were leased to Abraham Grünpacher.
At the end of the 18th century the castle began to fall into disrepair. In 1797 the Weyregg rectory is said to have been built from the rubble of the Weyregg open space.
Other owners of the land on which the castle stood were Dr. Alois Scherer (1890) and then Count Othmar von Überacker (1889). The latter had a lake castle rebuilt in several stages on the site of the previous castle.
Weyregg Castle then and now
As can be seen in the engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674 from the Topographia Austriae superioris modernae , the castle was located directly on the Attersee. It was a two-story building surrounded by a wall, with a small square tower at each corner. In 1815, the Lambach court judge Ignaz Gielge described the Weyregg outdoor area as follows:
“ The castle was very cute with double rows of windows and enclosed with circular walls in a square, at each corner there was a cute turret. This little castle is close to the lake, the church and the other houses are a bit back, the view of the Attersee and the area beyond is indescribably beautiful ... "
The new building of the lake castle was bought by the Christian teachers 'association in 1923 and the castle was converted into a teachers' rest home. During the Nazi era , a resettlement camp of the Nazi People's Welfare was housed here. After that, the building was used again as an educational and holiday home for the Christian Teachers' Association for Upper Austria. In the 1990s the building was transformed into the Seehotel Weyregg ; the company is currently up for sale.
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 .
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Chronicle of Weyregg am Attersee .
- ↑ Schoißengeier: National Socialist People's Welfare 1938-1949. Upper Austrian Provincial Archives, Linz 1969. (PDF; 130 kB)
- ↑ Homepage of the Christian Teachers' Association
- ^ OÖ-Nachrichten of March 29, 2013: CLV sells its Seehotel in Weyregg after 90 years.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 53 ′ 58.9 " N , 13 ° 34 ′ 11.5" E