Wildenau Castle
The Wildenau Castle is a moated castle in the cadastral Wildenau market Aspach in the district of Braunau (now Wildenau, Schlosshof 1). It is a listed building .
History of Wildenau Castle
Wildenau is one of the oldest castles in the Innviertel. According to a legend, a defensive tower is said to have stood here first, which served the Hun king Attila when he set up camp in this area.
The castle belonged to the Aham family for a long time . Wildenau and its owner at the time Wilhelm von Aham are first mentioned in a document in 1383 as mein haws vnd hof zw wildenaw . He was the progenitor of the Ahamer line in Wildenau, which existed until 1764. Wilhelm von Aham was the ducal court master, in 1405 he was the keeper of Julbach and in 1418 the keeper of Ried . After his death in 1425 Erasmus von Aham took over the castle, who was the keeper of Trostberg in 1426 , and in 1430 the keeper of Braunau am Inn ; In 1435 he became councilor of the Bavarian Duke Heinrich. A first fire damaged the castle in the time of Erasmus of Aham. In 1427 this Ahamer donated a benefit to the St. George's Chapel.
After the Ahamers, the Imsland followed. Baron Franz von Imsland had the castle lavishly furnished from 1699. In 1703, during the War of the Spanish Succession, the castle, which at that time belonged to Bavaria, was plundered by Austrian soldiers. The chapel and library were spared. Ahamer followed this Imsland again. The last of this family on Wildenau was the hereditary chamberlain and Bavarian chamberlain, Johann Eustach Graf von Aham, who died in 1764. He was again a Freiherr Franz von Imsland; he built a so-called flying staircase with 72 steps. In 1765 half of Wildenau came to the Thurn und Taxis. Baron Franz von Imsland had the castle rebuilt and enlarged in 1795.
The decline of the stately castle began even before the start of the French Wars. A first volume from 1800 and a second from 1805 caused great damage. In 1809 there was another looting and fire. This damage was not repaired until 1868. The chapel, picture room, library and archive were still preserved at that time. The subsequent heir, Major von Spieß, who was married in Salzburg, was unable to keep the property due to the high level of debt and had to sell it to the "goods butcher" Johann Baier, a farmer in Mehrnbach , who had major parts of the building demolished in 1882. The valuable interior and the archive were squandered and scattered all over the world. He also sold the estate, so that the castle lost its livelihood. A fire in 1880 also damaged the castle.
Wildenau Castle today
From the original castle with its square tower, a three-storey palace and two grown side wings enclosing a courtyard, which was built on an island in a landscaped pond and over a drawbridge could be reached today is only the eastern part of the palace. Only a remnant of the pond is left. The on the engraving of Wening recognizable gardens have disappeared. The building, in the right part of which the castle chapel is housed, still has charming arched arcades on the ground floor and further open arcades on the first floor .
It is thanks to the pastor of Aspach, Joseph Lechner, that the valuable furnishings of the castle chapel dedicated to St. George and St. Kilian with her Schwanthaler work was preserved, even if the chapel had to be moved to the ground floor. The altar dates from 1618; the chapel also contains three reliquary shrines (around 1698) of the martyrs Sabinus, Columbina and Fortunatus. Today it serves as a branch church of Wildenau.
In 1950 the property was bought from Johann Lindtner by Mrs. Angela Clemens. In 1959 the castle was auctioned off to the merchant Rudolf Löcs from Salzburg. Then it was acquired by E. Walter Schuster (then chief physician of the Gasteiner Heilstollen). He and his family lived there for 37 years. The Rastorfer family from Bavaria is registered as the current owner.
The castle was renovated in 2016/2017 and the garden was newly laid out.
Wildenau Castle
East Side
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chapel
Wildenau Castle
Wildenau Castle 2018
literature
- 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 .
- Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria, Volume 2: Innviertel and Alpine foothills . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1964.
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now. Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
Web links
- Wildenau Castle at Burgenkunde.at
- Entry via Schloss Wildenau to Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hunnensag
- ↑ Purchase contract from 2016 Land register entry renovation of the building 2016/2017 Plant of the garden 2017
- ^ OÖ Nachrichten of May 12, 2012
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 16.7 " N , 13 ° 18 ′ 54.4" E