Windern Castle
The Castle Windern is located in the same district of the municipality Desselbrunn in District Vöcklabruck of Upper Austria .
history
Windern (Windarin) is first mentioned in 1185, at that time it was owned by the Styrian Ministerial Gerhoch von Viecht . Through him, Windern came to the Admont Abbey as a foundation , from there in 1261 to Hedwig von Weng and Heinrich Aistersheimer. Konrad von Haag follows around 1300; In 1315 an owner appeared for the first time, named after the property: Ulrich von Windern. Purkhart von Windern succeeded him in 1379. The rule, which had meanwhile become a sovereign fiefdom , came to Koloman der Windner and his housewife Agnes in 1395. The daughter of Hans Windern Margarete married Kolomann von Grienthal in 1419 and brought Windern into the marriage as a marriage asset. In 1455 Sigmund Moser held the “Gesäzz Windern” and then his son Clemens until 1523. The Polheimers followed in 1594 . These had the actual castle construction performed. During the time when the land was granted as Bavarian pledge whether the Enns river , Count Adam von Herberstorff acquired the property from Siegmund Ludwig von Pollheim against repurchase rights in 1628 . In 1629 the widow Salome von Herberstorff sold the castle back to the Pollheimers. Under Charles Hayden was one of 1630, the dominion overcomers next Dorff and Lindach the Haydens . In 1654 Georg Erasmus von Zetlitz bought Windern Castle, from which his son Georg Christoph inherited it in 1657. Through the marriage of Sara Sophia von Zedlitz, Windern passed to Hanns Kaspar Höritzer in 1742.
In 1750 (1745) Windern came to Franz Xaver Poch (k) steiner von Wolfenbach. His wife, nee Freiin Pozzi von Rosenfeld, gave birth to 19 children; of these, Peter inherited the property after the death of his father in 1798. The Pochsteiners had the castle chapel built in 1769.
During the French Wars, Windern was strongly fortified; the entrenchments were later leveled again. After a fire in 1817 (and 1866) Windern was rebuilt. The sister Rosa of Peters Freiherr von Wolfenbach married the Freiherr Kaspar von Lemagh. The rule was inherited to his son Karl Ludwig in 1835. This was followed by a rapid change of ownership, including: Karl Freiherr von Mladota (1851), Michael and Therese Bruckmüller and Anton von Lansa (1867), Ludwig Graf Folliot-Creneville (1877) and Freiherr Eduard von Lago (1884). In 1888 Windern was acquired by Legation Councilor Karl Baron von Gagern, whose family tried very hard to maintain the castle. The writer Friedrich von Gagern often stayed in the castle . The widow Maria Gagern died in Linz in 1960; a year earlier, Windern became the property of Baron von Buttlar-Brandenfels. The next owner was Maximilian Garber, who had the castle renovated. In 1988 Windern went to Werner Frey from Basel, who wanted to convert the castle into a senior citizens' residence; this plan was not implemented. Since 2006, the castle has been owned by Franziska Pranckh and Vikas Thapar, who began extensive renovation work in the same year.
Windern Castle today
Windern consists of an almost square central building, with square turrets with steep tent roofs protruding from the corners. The castle has a beautiful column portal with side gate columns. A high wall reinforced with two round towers surrounds the four-tower castle. A residential building adjoins the right tower and the left a low house connected to the chapel. A covered corridor leads from the castle to the chapel. The castle chapel dedicated to St. Nepomuk contains paintings by Bartolomeo Altomonte from 1769, it has three rococo altars and furnishings from the time it was built. At the rear there is a curved flight of stairs with a column portal; on four turrets are tin figures of the evangelists. The chapel was renovated in 1969.
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 .
- 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 .
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
Web links
- Entry via Schloss Windern to Burgen-Austria
- Windern Castle at the Desselbrunn municipal office
- Windern Castle on Burgenkunde.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ krone.at of May 13, 2006
Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 29.3 " N , 13 ° 47 ′ 34.5" E