Schwertberg Castle

Schwertberg Castle today

The Schwertberg Castle is a castle in Upper Austria and is located near the resort Schwertberg in Mühlviertel . The castle was first mentioned in the 14th century and expanded to its present size in 1608. The castle has been owned by the Count Hoyos since 1911 .

history

Schwertberg on an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer

The first documentary mention was made as a Regensburg property in 1327. In 1355 the first owner, Leutold II. Von Kuenring, died. Presumably named after their ancestral seat Kühnring near Eggenburg (Lower Austria), the Kuenringer (read and speak: Künringern, Kuhnringern, Kohnringern, Konringern or Kunringern), but probably the vowel as in küene, küen adj. (Kühn, belligerent) is to be used as an umlaut articulate) as an important aristocratic family in Austria. Leutold's successors Andre von Lichtenstein and Friedrich von Wallsee renounced the possession of the castle for a sum of money, which the buyer Eberhard I. von Kapellen acquired in 1359 . In 1402 Ernst Preuhofer followed, 1406 the Liechtensteiner, 1412 Chunrad the Schaffer, and at the same time the Öder were owners. In 1462 the property went to Reinprecht V. von Walsee . By inheritance, the Öder came into the possession of the castle in 1470. Successors were the Hauser, again by inheritance. In 1506 Christof Zeller zu Riedau bought the castle from Hans dem Hauser. The Zeller were robber barons and made the Machland and the Aist valley unsafe. At the Reichstag in Worms in 1521, Bernhard Zeller was acquitted under current feudal law , but on his return he was beheaded by angry Linz citizens.

His cousin Georg von Wolframsdorf inherited the castle. Around 1530 the castle was married to the Tannberg family, who sold the castle to Hans von Tschernembl in 1575 . His son Baron Georg Erasmus von Tschernembl from Carniola also owned the Windegg estate . In 1608 he had the castle extended by Antonio Canevale and gave it its current appearance. As the spokesman for the Protestants, Georg had to leave the country and the castle was expropriated in 1620. Count Leonhard Helfried von Meggau bought the castle in the same year. During the Upper Austrian Peasants' War in 1626, the castle was conquered and briefly occupied. In the following years the castle belonged to the Starhembergers and then to the Kuefsteiners , before the Counts of Thürheim inherited the castle in 1749 . It remained in the possession of the Thürheimers until 1899, when Baroness Therese von Schwitter owned the castle. In 1911, Count Alexander Hoyos acquired the castle, and the castle is still owned by the Hoyos family today . After the Second World War , the Chinese salon was even renovated by the Soviet occupying forces.

Schwertberg Castle
Schwertberg Castle: entrance portal
Schwertberg Castle
Schwertberg Castle: Meierhof
Schwertberg Castle: water reservoir

construction

The castle is in the north of Schwertberg, at the point where the Aist emerges from the Josefstal. The castle makes a well-fortified impression, even though the appearance dates from 1608. The aist flows around the castle on three sides. The garden is kept in the Renaissance style and is one of the few preserved of its kind in Austria. There is a sundial on the round tower.

The Palas is four built up five floors and was divided into two sections. The lower two floors are Gothic, the upper three in the Canevale Renaissance style. The inner courtyard is equipped with arcades and the castle has a kennel for falcons. In the east of the courtyard a flight of stairs leads into the castle. The south wing is reinforced with strong round towers. The palace chapel is dedicated to St. Mary, Blessed Virgin . The Chinese salon shows wall paintings and a small rococo library.

literature

Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces of Upper Austria. 2nd edition, Wilhelm Ennsthaler, Steyr 1992, ISBN 3850683230 .
Lulu Countess Thürheim : My life. Memories from Austria's big world 1788-1852. From the French, ed. by René van Rhyn, 4 volumes, G. Müller, Munich 1913 f.
Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volumes 1–13, 1st edition, Munich / Leipzig 1995–2003, ISBN 3-598-23160-1 .
Mattias Lexer: Middle High German Concise Dictionary. 3 volumes, Leipzig 1872–1878.

Web links

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

Schwertberg on Burgenkunde.at
Entry via Schwertberg to Burgen-Austria

Individual evidence

^ Gunnar Strunz: Lower Austria. With Wachau, Waldviertel, Weinviertel and Mostviertel. Trescher Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89794-170-0 , p. 151 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
↑ Peter Csendes: Kuenringer. In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages. 10 volumes, Metzler, Stuttgart 1977–1999, volume 5, column 1560 (cf. Brepolis Medieval Encyclopaedias - Lexikon des Mittelalters Online).
^ Leopold Josef Mayböck : Eberhard I. von Capellen and his time 1330-1386. In: Windegger events. Bulletin of the Windegg working group in the Schwertberger Kulturring. 2007, p. 8 ( online (PDF; 4.6 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
^ Imperial Academy of Sciences: Archives for Austrian History. Volume 17, Vienna 1857, p. 172 (“die Öder”, limited preview in the Google book search).

48.277777777778 14.580833333333Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 40 ″ N , 14 ° 34 ′ 51 ″ E

[1] Gunnar Strunz: Lower Austria. With Wachau, Waldviertel, Weinviertel and Mostviertel. Trescher Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89794-170-0 , p. 151 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[2] Peter Csendes: Kuenringer. In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages. 10 volumes, Metzler, Stuttgart 1977–1999, volume 5, column 1560 (cf. Brepolis Medieval Encyclopaedias - Lexikon des Mittelalters Online).

[3] Leopold Josef Mayböck : Eberhard I. von Capellen and his time 1330-1386. In: Windegger events. Bulletin of the Windegg working group in the Schwertberger Kulturring. 2007, p. 8 ( online (PDF; 4.6 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

[Öder-4] Imperial Academy of Sciences: Archives for Austrian History. Volume 17, Vienna 1857, p. 172 (“die Öder”, limited preview in the Google book search).