Auhof Castle (Perg)

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Auhof Castle near Perg around 1674, engraving by GMVischer

Schloss Auhof is a privately owned and still inhabited seat in the village of Auhof in the cadastral municipality of Pergkirchen in the municipality of Perg in Machland in the Lower Mühlviertel in Upper Austria .

location

The castle is located about five kilometers east of the center of Perg at the foot of the granite and gneiss plateau that rises north of the Danube.

history

The often cited year 1294 as the first written mention of Auhof in connection with Dietrich and Dietmar von Au (Lords of Au, municipality of Naarn im Machlande ) is not, however, clearly certain for Auhof. Likewise, the news about Heinreich von Awe , indirectly verifiable in 1411 and 1418, does not clearly refer to the noble noble residence of Auhof.

The first historically secured mention of Aufhof comes from the year 1418, when the Hanns estate belonged to Rawber , who sold Auhof to Ulrich den Zeller in 1430 . While the noble mansion itself was freely owned , Fischweide and Wildbann were sovereign feudal fiefs , for which Zeller received an enfeoffment from King Ladislaus Postumus in 1455 .

The aristocratic noblemen's seat was slightly raised behind today's castle . The first building is likely to have been on the site of the high-rise building in today's Meierhof, as the name “old castle” suggests for the building located there in the Topographia Windhagiana . Around 1530 the estate included eleven farms and cottages in Auhof, orchards, ponds, a tavern , a forge , a mill , the Meierhof with stables and barns, 58 days of arable land, 55 days of meadows and a wood workshop. Presumably under Veit Flußhart, the new building of today's main building will have taken place in the period after 1568 as a replacement for the "old castle".

Auhof came to the Cistercians in the nearby Baumgartenberg monastery in 1667 through an exchange of goods . In an imperial confirmation of July 5, 1667, the monastery was also allowed to use the new name St. Bernhardshof for the estate in honor of St. Bernard , founder and promoter of the order . The recreation center of the Baumgartenberg monks consisted of a three-story, rectangular building (construction started in 1568) with a bay tower. After 1667, Abbot Bernhard Breil had the St. Bernhard Chapel built from the south-east front. In 1693 there was a devastating fire that destroyed almost the entire building. Abbot Candidate Pfiffer had the courtyard rebuilt, which was tantamount to a new building. Shortly after the abolition of the monastery by Emperor Josef II , the farm was sold and was given its original name again.

In 1945 the property was badly devastated and its furnishings were robbed. The building, which was restored in 1955, has since served as an apartment and estate management facility. In 1975 the castle chapel was inaugurated again after an extensive renovation.

owner

Over the centuries, the castle passed several times to other noble families. As further owners of the Auhof with its subjects and grounds are known:

  • 1418 Hanns the Robber
  • 1430 Ulrich the Zeller
  • 1455 Hans the Zeller
  • 1534 Afra Sandorfferin
  • 1554 or 1559 Wilhelm Künigsfelder, third husband of Afra Sandorffer
  • 1568 Veit the Younger Flußhart, grandson of Afra Sandorffer
  • 1579 Georg Flußhart, Vitus brother
  • 1580 Stefan Reuthmer, keeper of the Niederwallsee estate
  • 1586 Hans Stefan Reuthmer, his son
  • 1608 Hans Albrecht Paumgartner von Holenstein, caretaker of the Schwertberg lordship (as marriage property of Maria Reuthmer)
  • 1620 Georg Balthasar Paumgartner, his son
  • 1631 Johann Kaspar Riedtießer
  • 1635 Margarethe, his wife, and their two daughters Anna and Maria Christina Riedtießer
  • 1663 Baron and later Count Joachim Enzmilner von Windhaag near Perg
  • 1667 Baumgartenberg Abbey , after which the property was called Sankt Bernhardshof after its acquisition and renovation .
  • 1782 Anton Hofbauer, former postal expedition from Zwettl, 22 children
  • 1836 Bishop Gregor Thomas Ziegler
  • 1844 Johann Adam Talazko von Gestititz
  • 1858 Leopold Talatzko von Gestititz, his son
  • 1860 Cajetan Knight of Mayrau
  • 1882 Rudolf and Friedrike Pfisterer, née Mayer von Mayrau
  • Auhof Castle has belonged to the Löw-Baselli family since 1931.

description

Today's simple, early historical facade comes from the extensive expansion and renovation in 1882 by Friederike von Pfisterer. At the southeast corner there is a three-storey, five-sided, tower-like extension with a flat tent roof, which Pfisterer had erected in place of the corner tower that had survived the fire of 1693. The late-historic room furnishings have largely been preserved, especially wooden coffered ceilings and wall paneling. In the library there are four glass windows with the portraits of the writers Dante Alighieri , Ferdinand Gregorovius , Lord George Gordon Byron and Anastasius Grün . The high-quality panes are dated 1884 and bear the signature of the Vienna branch of Tyrolean glass painting .

  • Auhof Castle (Perg)

  • Old castle building

  • Crypt chapel

  • Enclosing wall with towers

The church portal decorated with acanthus stucco (end of the 17th century) has been preserved. Two neo-Renaissance stained glass windows from 1900 depict saints with the features of deceased family members. The prayer stalls are from the end of the 17th century. A wrought iron grille from the middle of the 17th century survived the fire or the new building. The coat of arms of Abbot Bernhard Breil is attached to the garden-side, two-armed staircase .

In the large park is the neo-Gothic crypt chapel built by the Linz master builder Otto Schirmer in 1884/86 for Friderike Pfisterer . It has a ribbed vault and shows a large glass window on the east wall with a crucifixion group and the coat of arms of Pfisterer-Mayrau from 1885. The garden and English landscape park are enclosed by a wall. On its north-west side there is still a round tower from the 16th century with a conical roof and loopholes. A meierhof and a troad box belong to the castle .

With the exception of the palace chapel, which was renovated in 1975, the buildings are in need of renovation.

literature

  • Stadtgemeinde Perg (Ed.): Perg, Festschrift on the occasion of the city survey in 1969, self-published, Linz 1969
  • Bernhard Prokisch : On the building history of Auhof Castle near Perg in the 19th century. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 147/1, Linz 2002, pp. 361-384, PDF on ZOBODAT

Further literature:

  • Rudolf Büttner: Castles and palaces on the Danube. Birkenverlag, Vienna 1964 and more recent editions.
  • Herbert E. Baumert and Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in the Mühlviertel. 1968 and later editions.
  • Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. Upper Austria. Landesverlag, Linz 1970.
  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now. Verlag Ennsthaler, Steyr 1975 and more recent editions.
  • Gerhard Stenzel, Lothar Beckel: From castle to castle in Austria. Verlag Kremayr and Scheriau, Vienna 1987.
  • Georg Dehio: Mühlviertel. Berger F., Horn 2003.
  • Georg A. Clam-Martinic: Austrian Castle Lexicon. Castles, ruins, mansions, palaces and palaces. 199

Web links

Commons : Schloss Auhof (Perg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prokisch 2002, p. 361.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Prokisch 2002, p. 362.
  3. ↑ a b c Prokisch 2002, p. 363.
  4. ↑ a b Leopold Josef Mayböck : Castle stables - noble seats - free courts. Auhof Castle. In: Heimatverein Perg and Stadtgemeinde Perg (editor): Heimatbuch der Stadt Perg. Linz 2009, p. 189ff.
  5. ↑ Prokisch 2002, p. 364.
  6. ↑ a b Prokisch 2002, p. 367.
  7. ↑ a b Prokisch 2002, p. 374.

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 9.9 ″  N , 14 ° 39 ′ 52.3 ″  E