Wildenhag Castle
The Castle Wildenhag is located in the same district of the municipality Straß in District Vöcklabruck of Upper Austria (Schlossberg 1).
history
Wildenhag is first mentioned in 1379. At that time it was owned by the V (U) etzinger and was given as a fiefdom by Duke Albrecht IV . The Utzingers were a so-called little knight dynasty from the village of Jetzing near Leonding , which was first mentioned in 1271 in the entourage of Mr. von Traun . An Ulrich Utzinger is enfeoffed with Wildenhag around 1400, which is also confirmed by Duke Albrecht V in 1411 . Emperor Friedrich III. gives the Wildenhag estate market rights in 1449 . Wildenhag then went to the sons Veit, Valentin and Erasmus (last mentioned in 1455) of Ulrich Utzinger. Erhard († 1497); a grandson of Erasmus received Wildenhag as a fief in 1497. His nephew Ulrich followed Wildenhag as a fief in 1523. After the death of his father († 1544) in 1546, his son Jakob was enfeoffed with Wildenhag. This is the last of the Uetzingen († 1554), his tombstone is in the parish church of St. Georgen.
After this family died out with Jakob Uetzinger in 1554, King Ferdinand I. awarded Wildenhag to Erasmus von Gera as a mercy. Already in 1556 he sold it to Georg Arnsteiner, a brother-in-law of the Uetzingen family. It was given to his brother Hans the following year. When he died in 1561, he left behind the underage sons Tobias and Christoph, for whom their uncle Georg (probably † 1565) was enfeoffed with Wildenhag. For the still underage sons, Achaz von Indersee was enfeoffed with Wildenhag. Only in 1583 was Tobias enfeoffed with Wildenhag for himself and his brother. The next year they sold Wildenhag to Leonhard Hohenzeller, who died in 1593 and left behind a daughter named Susanne. Siegmund Widerroiter first took the seat as a fief for them; then she married Ludwig von Schmelzing, who can be traced back to Wildenhag in 1597, but was only enfeoffed with Wildenhag in 1603. Schmelzing sold the manor in 1606 to Georg Hutstocker, who left it to Max Hohenfelder in 1614. For his sons, Ferdinand and Wolf Ludwig, their uncle Ludwig was enfeoffed with Wildenhag in 1623.
In 1583 the Wildenhag estate was combined with Walchen ; at that time both lords belonged to Hieronymus Putz. The administrative seat was moved to Walchen and Wildenhag was left to decay. Leonhard von Hohenzell (1632), Nikolaus Gurland (1638), Balthasar von Starhemberg, Johann Gottlieb von Clam (1766) and Christoph Freiherr von Aretin (1786) appear as owners. He was succeeded by Josef Preuer in 1802. According to the Franciscan cadastre , Christian Freiherr von Aretin is still named as the owner in 1808. The dairy that went with it was then sold to the Verwangers as a farm. A Rosalie Breuner was housed in the part of the castle that was still habitable. They sold their property to the surgeon Joseph Hamberger, who still owned the so-called castle in 1830.
description
As can be seen in an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674, Wildenhag was a three-storey building with a tower with a clock, onion dome and attached lantern in an exposed position on the Schlossberg. The castle had no walls, but had a defensive character due to the high windows. However, between 1574 or 1578 and 1581 Wildenhag was already described as dilapidated. From the description that was given at the time, one can see that the building had four rooms on the ground floor and four on the first floor and a chapel on the second floor.
Before Wildenhag fell into disrepair, it was rebuilt. The Viennese master builder Wilhelm Lippa took on the construction. He was followed in 1921 by Baron von Gagern, then the state school inspector Friedrich Mayr from Innsbruck (1931–1957). After that, Michael Oswald is the owner, who had the castle rebuilt in 1961.
Today there is a new castle-like building with two storeys and a hipped roof on the Schlossberg. There is a balcony above the entrance gate, and above it is a large attic window. In front of the castle entrance there are two baroque-looking dwarf figures that are reminiscent of the sculptures in the Salzburg Zwergerlgarten . There is another stone sculpture next to the driveway.
Not far from the castle is the former castle farm (Schlossberg 2), which is managed independently.
Wildenhag Castle today
The castle seen from Wildenhag
Baroque figure in front of the entrance
Baroque figure in front of the entrance
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 . 3. Edition. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 33 " N , 13 ° 29 ′ 23" E