Wimhub Castle
The Wimhub Castle (also written Wimhueb and Wimbhueb ) was located in the district of the same name in the municipality of St. Veit im Innkreis in the Braunau district .
history
Wimhueb was first mentioned in 1313 and belonged to the Bavarian nursing court Mauerkirchen . A symon of the Widemhuber zu Widemhueb occurs in a document on January 17, 1420 when goods are sold. The text suggests that this family had lived here since 1313 and that the Ahaymer servants were in Wildenau . The Wimhuber owned the property until 1549. Under Georg Wimhuber the castle was united with Brunnthal (Prunnthal) .
The von Hackledt men followed the Wimhuber . Hans I. von Hackledt acquired the Wimhub residence in 1549, and in 1575 the residence passed to his cousin Landrichinger. Between 1579 and 1580 the castle was rebuilt. On May 25, 1589, Johann Landrichinger sold Wimhub to Matthias II von Hackledt ( Matthias Hackleder ), an official of the sovereign administration and judge in Mattighofen . He was a distant relative of the aforementioned Hans I. von Hackledt. The various lines of the family now owned both Schloss Hackledt and Schloss Maasbach , Schloss Wimhub and Schloss Brunnthal . The property of Matthias II von Hackledt went to his daughter after his death in 1616 and after her death in 1637 it fell to her distant relative Johann Georg von Hackledt († 1677), the owner of Hackledt Castle. In the 18th century, the family and their grandchildren split into three new lines: Franz Joseph Anton († 1729) stayed at Hackledt Castle, his brother Johann Karl Joseph I († 1747) received the seat of Wimhub, and the third brother Paul Anton Joseph († 1752) was given the seat in Brunnthal , but initially continued to live in Wimhub before moving to Teichstätt Castle near Lengau, which his wife had inherited from his wife .
The von Hackledt family stayed at Wimhub Castle until the beginning of the 19th century: Johann Karl Joseph I von Hackledt until 1747, his son Johann Karl Joseph II von Hackledt ( Johann Freiherr von Hackledt zu Wimhub and Prunnthal ) until 1800. He died without male offspring. In 1804 the castle was owned by his daughter Konstantia, married Baroness von Klingensberg ( Chlingensperg ), in 1819 she was followed by the rent master Joseph Lentner after the castle was sold and in 1842 by auction Karl Freiherr von Wenningen. Under this, the castle fell into disrepair, which was then inherited and thus transformed from a noble residence into a farm.
Several family members are buried from the chopped leather in the church of Sankt Veit, where some tombstones remind of them. These tombstones seem to prove that the hackled workers had the focus of their family life in Wimhub at the beginning of the 18th century.
Similar to the Innviertel farms, the mansion is said to have been partly constructed of wood. As can be seen in the engraving by Michael Wening from 1721, Wimhub was a simple one-story building with corresponding agricultural outbuildings without any defensive character.
With the new construction of the "Schlossbauerngut" by the owners Edeltraud and Markus Preishuber, the castle has completely disappeared. In addition to the farm, a newly built chapel (in honor of St. Nepomuk ) reminds of the former castle.
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 .
- Christopher R. Seddon: Noble life paths between Bavaria and Austria. Forms of rule and rulership structures of the landed nobility on the lower Inn in the early modern period, illustrated using the example of the lords and barons of Hackledt . Vienna 2009, p. 1254-1266 . (detailed ownership history of Wimhub)
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '8.1 " N , 13 ° 10' 33.3" E