Wildshut Castle

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Wildshut Castle

Wildshut Castle is a castle in the village of Wildshut , municipality of St. Pantaleon , Upper Austria .

history

The electoral castle Wildshut, copper engraving by Michael Wening , 1721

The Wildshut chronicle goes back to the year 930. A castle that existed at that time was first mentioned in 1115 together with the lord of the castle Albert de Hutte as castrum Hutte . When the Lords of Wylczhut were first mentioned in a document in 1387, a castle already existed at the current location that served as a hunting lodge for the Bavarian dukes and was located on the border between the Duchy of Bavaria and the Archdiocese of Salzburg . In 1402 it became the seat of the district court in Weilhart , the district court was transferred to the Nussdorf family as a fief . Around 1500 the castle was taken over by the Bavarian dukes, who commissioned several renovations. The administration was carried out by carers . Hans Offenheimer was the first to be named between 1500 and 1521, followed by David Aigl by 1548. In the 17th century the living conditions were so bad that the caretakers were allowed to take care of them from their own castles. Wilhelm Krausmann is named as the first Austrian nurse in 1729. At that time the owner was Hans Pokorny, judge and German novelist.

After the Innviertel was handed over to Austria in 1779, the castle housed an independent district court in Wildshut. From 1810 to 1816 it was subordinate to the Salzburg Regional Court of Laufen and then became independent again. When the District Court of Wildshut was closed in 2002, the Republic sold the building to Dr. Georg Florens Traugott.

description

Despite its great age, the old building fabric on the outside has been preserved in almost pure style. The facility stands on a bank terrace with a steep drop to the Salzach and received sufficient protection through this and a circular wall , which probably already existed at the time of the first documentary mention. Today's appearance of a fortified castle was essentially created in the 16th century. A chapel was added to the defensive wall . The two construction phases can still be seen inside the castle. The altarpiece "Maria Hilf" dates from the middle of the 19th century. In the castle courtyard there is a 150 m deep brick draw well .

Since the castle was used as a district court for years and has been restored and renovated several times , little of the original interior has been preserved. A tiled stove from 1683, which was spent in the Upper Austrian Provincial Museum in Linz for a long time , can be viewed again in the palace's concert hall today.

After the Wildshut District Court was dissolved in 2002, the castle was sold to Georg Florens Traugott, who had it extensively renovated . For example, the floors on the first floor could be equipped with shell limestone panels that had previously been used in Linz train station . A sundial in the inner courtyard shows the dates of important castle renovations. The draw well in the castle courtyard was made functional again and further art objects could be set up. Today the castle is used for residential purposes and as an event location.

  • patio

  • Fountain in the courtyard

  • Tiled stove in the concert hall

  • Sundial in the courtyard

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 .
  • Hiltrud Oman: St. Pantaleon - Wildshut Castle . ISG Magazin 1-2016, ISSN 2309-1215, pp. 23-25.
  • Herbert Erich Baumert, Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. Volume 2: Innviertel and Alpine Foreland. Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-85030-049-3 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry about Wildshut on Burgen-Austria , accessed on March 15, 2011.
  2. ^ District book Braunau am Inn, Mattighofen, Moser, 1992, p. 255.
  3. ^ Website of the castle , accessed on March 15, 2011.

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 26.2 "  N , 12 ° 51 ′ 57.5"  E