Wolfurt Castle

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Wolfurt Castle, near Wolfurt

The Wolfurt Castle is a castle in Wolfurt in Vorarlberg District Bregenz and was the seat of the Lords of Wolfurt .

history

It is mentioned for the first time in documents from 1217 and 1226. In 1402 the Mehrerau monastery acquired half of the castle from the Wolfurtern. The castle became a summer residence for the abbots. Before the middle of the 15th century, Wolfurt became sovereign. In 1451 it fell to Austria and has since been given as a fief to various Bregenz patrician families. First to the Kaisermann family, in 1463 to the Leber von Wolfurt family.

In 1530, the abbot of St. Gallen Monastery , Kilian Germann (1485–1530) bought Wolfurt Castle near Bregenz and fled here from St. Gallen. The abbot Diethelm Blarer von Wartensee (abbot from 1530 to 1564) lived in the castle after him .

In 1653 Johann Wilhelm Marius took over the fief that had since fallen back , and after him Benedikt Reichart from Bregenz was enfeoffed with Wolfurt in 1696. Around 1707 he initiated the baroque renovation of the interior. After Joseph Xaver Tröndlin von Greiffenegg (1705–1765) acquired the building in 1750 , two years later it came into rural and then civil property. His grandson Hermann Gottlob von Greiffenegg (1775–1847) then also called himself von Wolffurt . After 1856 a Bregenz merchant carried out a renovation in the neo-Romanesque style. Further renovations were carried out from 1937 according to plans by Johann Anton Tscharner .

Friedrich Wilhelm Schindler's son Fritz Schindler acquired Wolfurt Castle in 1936 and moved there from Villa Grünau in Kennelbach in 1950 . It was destroyed by fire in 1939, and it was rebuilt in Gothic style in 1940 according to plans by the former architect. In 1945 the castle, which was transformed into a palace, became the temporary residence of the head of the French military government for Vorarlberg until 1953. The castle was then returned to the Schindler family and remained in family ownership until 2017.

In March 2017, the Wolfurt municipal council decided to buy the castle for 4.1 million euros, thereby making it public property.

literature

  • Alois Niederstätter : The Vorarlberg castles . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2017, ISBN 978-3-7030-0953-2 , pp. 171–174.
  • Patrick Shift: Hunchback cuboid in Austria . 2011.
  • Volkmar Dieth: Stone witnesses . 1995.
  • Georg Clam Martinic : Austrian Castle Lexicon . 1992.
  • Franz Josef Huber: Small Vorarlberg Castle Book . 1985.
  • Dehio: Vorarlberg . 1983.
  • Gerhard Stenzel: From castle to castle in Austria . 1976.

Web links

Commons : Wolfurt Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Vogler: Kilian Germann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 7, 2006 , accessed June 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Abbots of the St. Gallen Monastery
  3. ↑ Lorenz Hollenstein: Ulrich Bertz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 11, 2002 , accessed June 14, 2019 .
  4. ^ Ulrich Ilg : My Memoirs . Ed .: Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek , Vorarlberger Landesarchiv . Reprint of the 1985 edition on the occasion of Ulrich Ilg's 100th birthday. W. Neugebauer Verlag, Feldkirch 2005, ISBN 3-85376-264-6 , p. 68 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website ).
  5. ↑ Ulrich Nachbaur : “The situation in Vorarlberg” - end and new beginning 1945 as reflected in the “ Neue Zürcher Zeitung ” . In: Ulrich Nachbaur, Alois Niederstätter (Ed.): Departure into a new time. Vorarlberg Almanac for the anniversary year 2005 . Vorarlberger Landesarchiv , Bregenz 2006, ISBN 978-3-9502171-0-0 , p. 329 , footnote 77 .
  6. ^ The community buys Wolfurt Castle. ORF Vorarlberg , March 23, 2017, accessed on March 23, 2017 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 28 ′ 14.3 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 16"  E