Wels Castle

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Wels Castle, place of death of Emperor Maximilian I.

The imperial castle Wels is a castle-like castle in the southeast of the city center of Wels , Upper Austria and is now used for museum purposes.

history

776 the castle is mentioned in connection with the settlement of Wels "Castrum Uueles". The castle was initially a wooden structure with palisades and was only built from stone in the 12th or 13th century. At the end of the 12th century it was pledged to Leopold VI from Babenberg . , Duke of Austria , and was bought by him in 1222. After the Babenbergs died out, the castle came into the possession of the Habsburgs .

Monument to Emperor Maximilian I in the garden of Wels Castle

Under Emperor Maximilian I , who died in the castle on January 12, 1519, the castle was rebuilt in the late Gothic style from 1508 to 1514 . In 1653 the Roman-German King Ferdinand IV gave the castle to Prince Johann Weikhard von Auersperg . In 1865 the castle was sold by the Auersperger to the Schmalzaussieder Ludwig Hinterschweiger, who had the east wing added. Around 1900 it came into the possession of the Blaimschein family and in 1937 the building was acquired by the city of Wels.

The building is currently used by the city of Wels as a cultural center, including the Austrian Pastry Museum, the Museum of Displaced People, and the city and agricultural history collections.

literature

  • Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. Upper Austrian Provincial Publishers, Linz 1970.
  • Georg Grüll: Castles and palaces in the Innviertel and Alpine foothills. Birken, Vienna 1964.
  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now. Berger, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
  • Laurin Luchner: Residences and country estates in Upper Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg. (= Castles in Austria. Volume 2). Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-04508-1 .
  • Georg Clam Martinic: Austrian Castle Lexicon. 2nd Edition. Landesverlag, Linz 1992, ISBN 3-85214-559-7 .
  • Ilse Schöndorfer: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. NP, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3-85326-189-2 .
  • Anna Maria Sigmund : The House of Habsburg, Habsburg's houses. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-8000-3581-2 .
  • Gerhard Stenzel: From castle to castle in Austria. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1973.

Web links

Commons : Burg Wels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elmar Mattle: Founding and expanding cities in the early Middle Ages in Upper Austria. 2009. Website in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  2. ↑ Elmar Mattle: On the settlement genesis of Upper Austrian cities in the High and Late Middle Ages. Examicus, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-86746-940-7 , p. 101.
  3. ↑ Digital Architectural Guide of the City of Wels ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed April 8, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wels.at
  4. ^ Association of Upper Austrian Museums , accessed on October 20, 2009.

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 24.1 ″  N , 14 ° 1 ′ 41.1 ″  E