Wolfsegg Castle

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Wolfsegg Castle

The Wolfsegg Castle is located in Hausruck in the town of Wolfsegg in District Vöcklabruck .

history

Wolfsegg Castle after an engraving by Matthäus Merian from 1656
Wolfsegg Castle after an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

Wolfsegg used to be called "Hausruck" after the Hausruck family. Hadmar I. von Hausruck was mentioned in a document in 1120. His son Heinrich de Husrucke is mentioned in a document from 1135. Successors were the Wolfsecker. The first of these was Aribo, followed by Chunradus de Wolvesekke, mentioned in a document in 1191, who was a ministerial of the Margraves of Steyr . Other Wolfsecker were Helwiga (1185), Adelhaid (1185), Hadmar II (1220), Christina (1260), Otto (1277), Ortlof (1277) and Christian. The last of the male line of this family and fiefdom holder of the Salzburg archbishops, Christian von Wolfsegg, died in 1321. In 1291 he had sold his share of the property to Duke Albrecht I of Austria . The right of ownership was already divided in his time: one half belonged to his sister, who brought it into the marriage with Albero von Pollheim. This share was given to the Weißbergers as a fief; the other half fell to the Archdiocese of Salzburg , which in 1321 enfeoffed the Schaunbergers. In 1326 Dietrich von Weißenberg sold his share to Duke Friedrich the Beautiful , although in 1321 he had "sent" it back to the Archbishop of Salzburg and received it back as a Schaunberger fief. This feudal dispute was settled by an arbitration tribunal in 1328. In 1369 Wolfsegg finally came under the rule of the Habsburgs , who had it administered by carers if it was not pledged. 1405-1410 Wolfsegg was pledged to Reinprecht II von Walsee .

In 1455, King Ladislaus enfeoffed Jörg Perkheimer with the Wolfsegg estate. This loan was granted by Duke Albrecht VI. converted into a Perkheimer pledge. In 1488 Kaspar Perkheim was taken over by Emperor Friedrich III. charged with stopping the sweeping salt smuggling. However, since he did not adequately comply with this order, his pledge was canceled by the emperor. Hilprand Jörger followed as a carer. Emperor Maximilian I pledged Wolfsegg in 1500 to Caspar von Retschan († 1545), who was later replaced by Johann von Senftenau. Cosmas Gienger von und zu von Grienpichel came into the possession of the castle in 1566, which later became his property. After the death of Hans Adam Gienger († 1621) his daughter Ursula Wolfsegg inherited.

Wolfsegg was also affected by war events. On November 19, 1626, the castle, which was occupied by farmers, was stormed by General von Pappenheim . In 1632 the castle was stormed and badly damaged during the Upper Austrian peasant revolts . Christoph von Khevenhüller drove the farmers out again.

At the time of the Gienger, the castle had already been converted into a palace. This brought the property as a dowry in marriage to Joseph Pfliegl (Pflügl) and from Goldstein, kurbayrischer Councilor and Vice Dominus , a. Through the marriage of the daughter of Johann Baptist Pfliegl, Eleonore Isabella Anna, Wolfsegg came to Mathias Castner von Sigmundslust . After his death, the widow married Count Karl von Tige in 1721. He ran the property so down that bankruptcy proceedings had to be imposed after his death. Minister of State Thaddäus Adam von Reischach acquired Wolfsegg in 1797. In 1818 Ehrenreich Ritter von Schinnern was the owner, in 1819 it passed to the eleven Querer siblings. This division was not good for the castle and the property, so Wolfsegg had to be placed under compulsory administration.

In 1835, Franz von Saint Julien bought the estate, and the Saint Julien-Wallsee family still owns the property to this day.

Wolfsegg Castle today

The castle is located on a hill above the market town of Wolfsegg. It is a successor from the 16./17. Century of a previously existing castle , the remains of which are still recognizable. Two deep trenches separated the castle from the fore area. From this only wide hollows are preserved. The year MDXCIX is affixed above the castle entrance, presumably indicating that the castle was converted into a castle. The three-storey main wing, an irregular quadrangular building, still contains remains of the old castle wall. In the knight's hall you can see a magnificent six-column door frame from the end of the 17th century. Two two-story active wings lead from the main wing to the rear and connect to the three-story parallel wing of the main wing. All of these parts of the building enclose an inner courtyard. Opposite the castle is a horseshoe-shaped yard .

The castle chapel from 1746 is equipped with barrel vaults and stucco . It is consecrated to St. Anna . The altarpiece from 1746 is by Bartolomeo Altomonte .

The castle is surrounded by a park with a glass house (palm house) from the early 19th century and a simple wall. The park was laid out or described in 1721.

Wolfsegg Castle in the work of Thomas Bernhard

Wolfsegg Castle is undoubtedly the most important literary place in Thomas Bernhard's work . As early as 1953 he mentioned him as a journalist for the Democratic Volksblatt , where he was initially interested in Wolfsegg's linguistic image etymologically. 10 years later he situates a war crime there - but without giving a location - in continuation of the murder material from Lebert's book “Die Wolfshaut” in his novel “Frost”; A decade later, his screenplay “The Italian” was filmed there with special details of Wolfsegg's topography, and at the end of his life he completed the Wolfsegg subject in his opus summum, the 1986 novel “Die Auslöschung”.

  • Park

  • Palm house in the park

  • Coat of arms on the park wall

  • Meierhof

literature

  • 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 .
  • Georg Clam Martinic : Castles and palaces in Austria. Landesverlag in Veritas Verlag, Linz 1991, ISBN 3-85001-679-1 .
  • 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

Commons : Schloss Wolfsegg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eva Berger : Historical Gardens of Austria: Upper Austria, Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Carinthia, Styria, Tyrol . Volume 2. Böhlau, Vienna 2003.
  2. ↑ Erich Hinterholzer u. Hans Höller: Poetics of the scenes. In: Thomas Bernhard, Johannes Freumbichler, Hedwig Stavianicek: Pictures, Documents, Essays. Edited by Manfred Mittermayer. Linz: Kulturland Oberösterreich: R. Trauner [1999?] Special edition: Die Rampe, Extra . ISBN 3853209955 , pp. 145-166
  3. ↑ Joachim Hoell: Mythical world of imagination and inherited nightmare. Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard, Berlin 1999, pp. 189–347
  4. ↑ Sigrid Löffler : The legacy of the court dwarfs.
  5. ↑ Summer cinema “The Italian” by Thomas Bernhard in the park of Wolfsegg Castle

Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 31.5 "  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 26.7"  E