Seisenburg
The Seisenburg , also called Hochseisenburg , is a ruined castle in Upper Austria and is located in the municipality of Pettenbach in the Kirchdorf an der Krems district . The castle was built in the 17th century below the old iron castle , which was removed in the 15th century, in the Renaissance style.
history
The Seisenburg is mentioned for the first time in 1126 as the property of Heinrich von Polheim , who received it as a pledge from the margraves of Seyr in 1120. In 1278 Philipp von Polheim owned the facility, and in 1329 the brothers Wernher and Gottfried and Heimbert von Polheim were the owners. On February 19, 1329 the Polheim brothers sold a quarter of the house to the district judge Eberhard V. von Walsee . A second quarter remained in their possession, while the remaining half of the Seisenburg went to Albert von Volkensdorfer . Shortly afterwards Volkensdorf also got the other two quarters.
From April 7, 1334, the Seisenburg was the property of the Dukes of Austria for almost the entire rest of the Middle Ages , but they generally pledged it, for example in 1336 to Dietrich von Harrach zu Linz. Then it came to Jans von Capellen, before Duke Rudolf IV gave the castle to Eberhard von Wallsee as a pledge in 1359. The complex remained in his family until 1435. In the following year Albrecht V pledged it to his administrator Ulrich Eitzinger von Sitzing. Its keeper built the fortress in 1451.
1460 awarded Archduke Albrecht VI. the castle to the imperial captain Nabuchodonsor Nankenreuter . But because he is in the following period as robber barons operated and terrorized his neighbors who Seisenburg was in 1468 by Governor Reinprecht V of Walsee besieged and captured. She was badly damaged in the process. That was what Kaiser Friedrich III thought . does not stop using the now Burgstall as a deposit. In 1489 he gave it to Christoph Steinbeck after Reinprecht V's death. Even Maximilian I pledged the ruins . In 1518 he gave it to his valet Georg Vogl for a loan of 2,200 guilders . He sold the castle ruins to Bernhard Kirchberg in 1520.
The owners of the Seisenburg include Bernhard Kirchberg, married to Siguna Purckstallerin, Leonhard Kirchberg who was married to Euphrosina Fermbergerin, Wilhelm Kirchberg († 1573), the nephew of Leonhard Kirchberg, who was first married to Anastasia Mämming and second Marriage to Eleonore von Schallenberg was married, Hans Ludwig Kirchberg († 1607), Hans Helmhart Kirchberg, the son of Wilhelm from his first marriage, Hans Sigmund Kirchberg, the son of Wilhelm from the second marriage and Georg Bernhard Kirchberg, the son of Wilhelm from the second marriage Marriage, demonstrable. They passed the ruins on to Achaz Fenzl zu Grueb in 1605. Finally it fell through the marriage of Felizitas Fenzl to Gottlieb Engl zu Wagrain . a
From 1680 to 1690 the Seisenburg was owned by Sigmund Friedrich Freiherr von Engl. Between 1682 and 1691 he had the new Hochseisenburg Castle built below the ruins and an extensive library set up there. The castle library was finally enlarged by Franz Georg Engl. In 1736 his son Franz Friedrich Thomas Graf Engl built a chapel with a crypt which was dedicated to St. Rochus .
After the death of Sigmund Graf Engl on March 8, 1910, the last male descendant of his line, the Seisenburg fell to Baron Sigmund von Schneeburg-Hoheneck in 1911. He died on July 28, 1932 in Altmünster, so Count Sigmund Spiegelfeld-Schneeburg became the new owner who sold the castle in 1936. The last owners of the castle, who still lived in it in its original state, were the family of Baron von Lederer from 1936.
On June 6, 1944, the tower of the building collapsed, and around the same time the roof of the palace collapsed. As a result, the building continued to deteriorate, so that only a few remains of the wall existed at the end of the 20th century. In 1998 a group of men got together who, with the approval of the municipality, are committed to the preservation and restoration of the ruins. Ten years later an association was founded.
architecture
investment
Around 1329 the Seisenburg house was mentioned in a document as a fortified fortified castle. Between 1609 and 1610 Achaz Fenzl had the fortress converted into a Renaissance castle. Another important enlargement took place between 1680 and 1690 under Sigmund Friedrich Freiherr von Engl. The castle was probably built on the remains of a curtain wall around the old castle. The chapel with a crypt, which was located west of the castle, had Franz Friedrich Thomas Graf Engl built. It was accessible through a closed swing arch from the castle.
On the west side of the castle there was also a vegetable garden with a summer house. The chapel was accessible through a closed swing arch from the castle. There was also a farm building with a built-up area of over 330 m² as well as a caretaker-forester with an inn, whose bar license belonged to the lordship, a glass veranda and a bowling alley. In addition, a castle well house with its own water pipe was built.
inside rooms
The castle had two floors and consisted of four wings that enclosed a right-angled colonnade. In this courtyard there was a fountain adorned with coats of arms and a square tower that stood in the north corner of the castle building and through which the entrance road to the castle led. On the lowest level of the castle there was an armory, an outdated kitchen with four adjoining rooms, four small rooms on the north side, a valet's room, as well as an old and new forestry office and a servants' room.
On the first floor there was a more modern kitchen, a bedroom, a large salon room , a writing room, a dining room, which was referred to as the yellow room, the library, a guest room, a hall of honor and the tower room with a distant view. All the rooms were large and the rooms were very high. There was some stucco work on the ceiling and almost every room was equipped with a tiled stove .
On the second floor there were four hall-like ballrooms, which were also decorated with splendid stucco, another tower room, six low but large women’s rooms, and a fisherman’s room. There were also a number of basement rooms and a professionally executed roof structure. In addition, the baroque interior design was made by Franz Friedrich Thomas Engl and finished by his son Franz Sigmund Adam. The palace library built by Sigmund Friedrich Freiherr von Engl in 1684 was expanded by Franz Georg Engl.
The farm building contained an administrator's apartment with three living rooms and one more room, as well as a furnished restaurant with a kitchen and a bedroom on the ground floor. Another utility building contained stables, two empty living rooms and a cellar. There was also a laundry room and an equipment kitchen.
Castle archive
In 1922 the archive director I. Zibermayr tried to inspect the Seisenburg castle archive , but the owner Baron Schneeburg refused. He claimed that only family files were kept in the archive. However, a forester assured the archive director that after the war, old furniture, books and also archive materials were being sold and taken away from the castle. Eleven years later, the palace archive was placed under a preservation order in order to protect the archive material that was still there. As early as September 1933, manuscripts could be found in the library, some of which contained the general history, but also the history of the rule of the Seisenburg. In the tower building, however, was the actual manor archive, which was found in great disorder. Among them were letters and treatises, but also orphan books from the 16th to 18th centuries.
On June 22, 1934, the owner, Count Spiegelfeld-Schneeburg, agreed and sold the archives of the palace archives to the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives for 300 schillings . Eduard Straßmayr took over the archives in July 1934. A total of 70 documents, 18 slipcase files and 120 manuscripts were found. Only one document was found from the Middle Ages, the others being from the modern era. In addition, some disputes and litigation files were found, which mainly dealt with forest and forest matters. Furthermore, some family files that supplemented the series of documents around 1520 could be taken over. Also important were the copies of the purchase letters of February 5, 1518 (Emperor Maximilian sells Seisenburg to Georg Vogl), October 10, 1520 (Vogl sells to Achaz Fenzl) and August 24, 1605 (Hans Sigmund Kirchberger sells to Achaz Fenzl).
The manuscripts, however, date back to 1605, when the Seisenburg was sold to Achaz Fenzl. Many manuscripts deal with forestry, as a great deal of forest belonged to the Seisenburg rule. Letters, inventory and interrogation records have their origins around 1619, some of which, with some gaps, extended to 1819. The volumes between 1820 and 1848 can be found in the regional court archive.
The diary of Stefan Engl zu Wagrain and the catalogs of the castle library from 1684 are also of great importance. The extent of the earlier castle archives can be clearly recognized by an archive inventory from the 18th century, whereby the archive holdings were therefore not of great importance should.
museum
In the writing and local history museum in Pettenbach or also called Bartlhaus, collections of finds from the Seisenburg are also exhibited. Old historical writings and pictures that were found and recovered around 1940 in the Seisenburg, which was no longer inhabited at that time, can be viewed on loan in showcases.
literature
- Benedikt Pillwein : History, geography and statistics of the Archduchy above the Enns. 1843, p. 418 ( online ).
- Rudolf Reicherstorfer: On the history of the former large parish of Pettenbach, the parish of Pettenbach, and the dominions of Pettenbach and Seisenburg. 1953, pp. 57-62.
- Franz Sekker: Castles and palaces, towns and monasteries of Upper Austria. 1925.
Web links
- Seisenburg rulership archive. In: landesarchiv-ooe.at. Upper Austrian Provincial Archives(with link to PDF; 168 kB).
- The Seisenburg on burgseite.com
- Entry via Seisenburg to Burgen-Austria
- Bibliography on Seisenburg in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
Individual evidence
- ^ Benedikt Pillwein: History, geography and statistics of the Archduchy above the Enns. 1843, p. 418.
- ^ A b Upper Austrian Provincial Archives (ed.): Seisenburg Herrschaftsarchiv .
- ↑ The Seisenburg on burgseite.com , accessed on November 23, 2009.
Remarks
Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 25 ″ N , 14 ° 2 ′ 13 ″ E